Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1898 — Prince Albert Pawned His Watch. [ARTICLE]

Prince Albert Pawned His Watch.

The Trince of Wales once had fc», pawn his waiteh. Shortly after iha Franeo-Prussian ws\r, he and hi* equerry, Gen. Toes dale, w T ere visiting; the field of Sedan. He was traveling! incognito, not wishing to offend tbal susceptibilities of the French. When) the time came to pay the hotel bUI,, both he aud his equerry found themselves without a penny. As a teat resort (they pawned the prince’s watch at the nearest pawnshop. Europe owes its name to the Greek eurus, broad, and op, to see, or ops, the face, in allusion to “the broad face at the earth.”