Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1901 — The Jester and the Czar.. [ARTICLE]

The Jester and the Czar..

The Russian court jester was trying hi# best to cheer up his imperial master. “If you were dean of the college «f czars,” he playfully remarked, “what would you then become?” The Czar looked at the jester coldly. “Well, what?” he asked. “A-a czar-dean, your majesty, ''of course.” The Czar scowled. “You have a! very pretty wit—for the Siberain frontier,” he said. “Away with him!”—-Cleveland Plain Dealer.