Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1901 — “Two Little Snobs.” [ARTICLE]

“Two Little Snobs.”

Titles seem not to make men large of stature or in any way distinguishable in appearance from ordinary men. An amusing example of this lack of visible nobility is cited by an English exchange. The Duke of Argyll was once traveling in a railway carriage with the Duke of Northumberland. At one of the star tlons a little commercial drummer entered. The three chatted familiarly until the train stopped at Alnwick Junction. Here the Duke of Northumberland went out and was met by a train of flunkeys and servants. “That must be some great swell,” remarked the drummer to bis unknown companion. "Yes,” said the Duke of Argyll, “be Is the Duke of Northumberland.” “Bless me!” exclaimed the drummer. “And to think he should have been so affable to two little snobs like us!”