Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1875 — A Joke at Long Range. [ARTICLE]

A Joke at Long Range.

Denver, Col., gives an instance of a joke being carried too far. It was perpetrated years asm, but only lately came to light in public aress. Some time after the Atlantic cable had been established a operator at Denver sent the following dispatch : , “ To the’Emperor Napoleon, Garden of the Tuileries, Paris, Prance: “ Gov. Gilpin will not accede to the cession of Italy to France. Please let Bohemia alone.” , The operator supposed it would make some fun in the Omaha office, and stop there, as the station agents had a general understanding in regard to each other’s jokes. By some hook or crook the dispatch went on, and dived under the ocean and came up smiling ffi the Garden of the Tuileries, in France. The manner of its reception by Napoleon has been lost to history. All that is known is the Emperor did not pay for it, and the facetious operator was hunted up and obliged to' pay a bill of $187.50 in gold for his little joke. That operator was entirely satisfied with the result of Sedan.— Virginia (Neo.) Enterprise. —The boy that was too feeble a month ago to drag himself to school and home again goes around now letting other boys “ feel of his muscle,” has the appetite of' a shark and plays first base in a ball game five hours a day without in the least impairinghis energy. Curious, isn’t it?