Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1901 — TOO POLITE BY HALF. [ARTICLE]

TOO POLITE BY HALF.

Effiuivenaai of tha People of Dresden Well Illustrated. The people of Dresden are very polite, so over-polite that they not infrequently bring down ridicule upon themselves. It used to be told in that city that a stranger was me day crossing the great bridge that spans the Elbe, and asked a native to direct him to a certain cuuieh which he wished to find. “Really, my dear sir,” said the Drosdencr, bowing low, “I grieve groatly to say it, but I cannot tell you.” The stranger passed on, a little surprised at this voluble answer to a simple question. Ha had proceeded but a short distance when he heard hurried footsteps behind him, and, turning round, saw the same ntan running to catch up with bim. In a moment his pursuer was by bis tide, his breath nearly gone, but tnough left to say, hurriedly: “My dear sir, you asked me how you could find the church, and it pained me to say that I did not know. Just now I met my brother, but I grieve to say he did not know either.”—London Tit-Bits.