Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1890 — Albert Edward’s Rudeness. [ARTICLE]

Albert Edward’s Rudeness.

A strange story of the rudeness of a member or the royal family of England comes to The Man About Town direct from a lady correspondent at Edinburgh. A fair was in progress there and Mrs. Langtry was selling coffee at one of the booths. Enter the Prince ot Wales, who asked for a cup of the delicious Mocha. Mrs. Langtry Served it in delicate Worcester, and just -as she handed it to him threw a daiuty kiss into the cup. “How much?” the future monarch of all he surveys queried. “It was 10 shillings.’.’* answered the lily of the Jersey Isles, “until I threw a kiss into it. Now\,it is 20 shillings.” “What will you charge me for a clean cup?” retorted the Prince, very ungallantly, as he returned the coffee - <■,. -1 .. .. 1 -- ——.— • If the story is true it indicates that the Prince of Wales is getting to be Jess and less of a gentleman as he edges ueardb the throne.—A’Z. Louis Kepubhc.' The stanqi-window of any post-office is a sort of Lick observatory.