Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1907 — Butcher Inference. [ARTICLE]

Butcher Inference.

One day Emperor Francis Joseph was entering a village in his domain on horseback and was met on the outskirts by a butcher who had gone out in hope of catching an early glimpse of the Austrian kaiser. The emperor asked the butcher the way to an inn, and after directions had been given the butcher in turn inquired: “Have you seen .the kaiser?” “Very recently, 7 answered Francis Joseph. j >* “Are you sure? Do you know him certainly?” asked the eager butcher. “Well, I ought to,” replied the monarch, puffing out his chest. “I have shaved him often enough.”

“Ah, and you are the court barber,” said the abashed butcher in awestruck tones, as he doffed his cap and backed to the roadside. —Washington Post.