Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1908 — All Were Prime Ministers. [ARTICLE]

All Were Prime Ministers.

An eminent surgeon was once sent for by Cardinal Du Bols, prime minister of France, to perform a very serious operation upou him. The cardinal said to him: “You must not expect to treat me in the same rough manner as you treat your poor miserable wretches at your Hotel Dleu.” “My lord,” replied the surgeon, with great dignity, “every one of those miserable wretches, as your eminence Is pleased to call them, is a prime minister in my eyesr.”—Success Magazine. '