Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1882 — A Polite People. [ARTICLE]

A Polite People.

The city of Lucknow, India, is renowned for the politeness of its people, exceeding, it would seem, that of the French, who are generally regarded as the politest people in the world/'' A correspondent, writing from the spot, gives a ludicrous illustration of the extent to which the natives carry their ideas of courtesy. Two native gentlemen, on their way to the railway station, accidently fell into a ditch. One would suppose that both would have been ou their feet in a twinkling; but no, the law of politeness intertered, and one said to the other, “When your honor arises, then I may get up.” “No. your honor should get up first,’ 1 replied the other. “Never, how could 1 take prcedence of your honor?” And thus the contest went on;foi| an hour, it is said, because neither gentleman would consent to violating the laws of good breeding.