Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1899 — A Lesson in Manners. [ARTICLE]

A Lesson in Manners.

Talleyrand, the great French statesman, was entertaining one night An officer arriving lute su’d that he had been detained by a pequin, the French soldier’s nickname for a civilian. Talleyrand, affecting not to know, asked what a pequin was. “Oh!” remarked the officer with a free-and-easy shoulder-shrug. “We call everything pequin that Is not military.” “Indeed!** answered Talleyrand. “Now with us, we call everything military that is not civil.”