Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1876 — The Story of a Russian Princess. [ARTICLE]

The Story of a Russian Princess.

What do you think of a Russian princess —a genuine article, with her name, ooat-of-arms, etc,, stamped even on Apt stockings—serving in the capacity of chambermaid at a gentleman's house, bringing up a fellow’s—this fellow’s—early cup of coffee, and gracefully shuttling downstairs with hisbootsV How would that fit into your pipe for a quiet smoke ? I will tell you a tale, stranger than fiction. In the first place, I must give incredulity a gentle tap on the head, as a hint to be quiet, by premising that Russian princesses in their native land are as thick as leaves in Yalombrosa. This particular princess, who bad cut some caper or other, resulting In a policeman’s order for her to move on, came to-this country. She here fell in love with a thoroughbred scalawag and married him. He watf an expeditious young man, and he went throughher money and diamonds like beans through a tin horn. As the diamonds melted away, they came down In life by going up to the neighborhood of the attic. At last, one morning after breakfast, out of the melting of the last ear-ring, the young man arose, embraced his wife, shed one tear on her throbbing bosom, and bolted. He went off with another name, and took to keeping school at S4O a month. The princess took an engagement as chambermaid in a private family at four dollars a week, and no half benefit. Eighteen months rolled around, at the end of which time she treed her man —the vagrant husband. She went into court and demanded a share of the pedagogue’s salary. The scalawag pulled out a decree of divorce, obtained somewhere in the West. But the employer of the princess was a „prominent lawyer, and, badgered by his servant, 'took up her cause. The decree was right, but had one fatal defect. Such a document is taken in evidence ih the New York courts, provided it has the signature of the clerk of the., court, seal,: etc., also that of the judge, with the additional requirement that the judge must certify that it is the clerk in question, and the clerk must swear to the judge, which is funny, and with all due’ respect to courts, I should say, highly preposterous. In this document the clerk had failed to certify to the Identity of the court, and the Justice here threw out the evidence and assigned to Mine. Princess twelve dollars a week out of her husband’s earnings. Now see the effect of sudden prosperity. From that moment! the Princess has refused'to make a bed of flourish a duster, and as long as school keeps will not torches boots with a pair of tongs, —Louimlle Courier Journal. '