The New York herald., 1873-10-14
Popularity Of the Stigmatized Ladies Among
the People of Zurich.
RUNNING THE RUSSIAN FRONTIER.
Alleged Political Conspiracies Between
the Poor Students and the
Russian Refugees.
THE STORY EXPLODE ED.
The Liberal (7) Policy of the Sentimental
Ally Of the United States.

ZURICH, Sept. 2, 1874
All well informed persons are OF the opinion that
there Is no better gentleman among the shelved
diplomattsts, who are put aside like super nuous
linen OF overstocked housewives at Berne than
the present Russian Envoy in Switzerland. He
may be wanted some day by his august master or
by his august mistress when the ENJOYS now in
use are out, put there Is no immediate oc-
casion for his services he would not have been
slowed away In lavender and darkness.
Few or none OF the diplomatic corps are able or
willing to understand that they really placed
on the retired list when appointed to such posts as
Berne, where there is nothing to do but give
DINNERS TO NOBLE TRAVELLERS
and diligently attend to their own health by regu-
lar exercise and milk diet, that after short
residence in Switzerland they feel in danger OF
turning yellow and being forgotten. There is no
court, no society to amuse them, or even to give
them the harmless yet absorbing occupation OF
changing their clothes three times day. as they
must do at Dresden, Munich and Slut tgart, in
order to take part In royal festivities, mostly con.
fined to music and uniforms. The professors and
hotel keepers who rule the roast OF the Swiss can
tons are rather dull company. They can only talk
OF refractory Students male and female and OF the
latest prices obtained from travellers for the three
eedded room, which Is q new and profitable insti-
tion just inaugurated in this picturesque country.
Therefore the Russian Envoy and his colleagues
were not long ago at their wits end. In vain they
got up early In the morning and took OF their hats
to each other; In vain they rode or drove about in
the afternoon and took of their hats again, calling
each other .'C7er Corlfrerer and other endearng
terms, or Mon Primer and M le Conste', when
they hoped that an international squabble might
be brewing, and deemed 1t wise to practise
stately reserve by times towards superannuated
nobemen whom they might have to observe with
cool and attentive eye at distant period as
enemies OF their court and country, not incapable
OF the darkest Vaccinations, conducted upon FOOLS
cap paper.
Before the Russian Minister, however, set out
with rather q detected aspect, for Berne, he con-
suited private friend OF great Official experience
as to what on earth he should do there to prevent
himself being buried alive or
PENsIoNHD OPT AS INCAPABLE
His friend OF great experience had first lighted
cigarette, for cigarettes are extremely well made
at St. Petersburg, OF the finest kinds or Turkish to-
bacco, and then he had hummed an opera air from
eLa Belle Helene" as though ne did not quite see
his way to answering the question which had been
put to him. But when the banlshed Envoy re-
peated it, in tones OF alarm, he Lit another cigar
ette and as the first Whit OF blue smoke left his
mustaches ne turned sharply on his heel as Rus
sian friends OF great experience are apt to do, and
rieny said, "Amuse the Empress"
"Egadu muttered the Russian Envoy to himself,
one fine morning, after he had got to his destina-
tion sI'll do tt.r And he did It, The diplomatlsts
OF despotc courts really can only keep their places
and win promotion by entertaining their sover-
eigns, whereas the diplomatists OF constitutional
States nnd 1t pays better to interest the clerks In
authority over them by early intelligence OF lucra-
tive contracts for public works projected or rail-
way concessions 10 be had by good management,
or PROBABLE fluctuations In State securities, out ol
which desirable pickings may be got by the wary,
well-advised. The business OF q Russian or Prus-
shan envoy, however, is merely to charm or to as
tonisn his superiors for there are no more
NcoRRIGIBIg wosDERgRs
In the world than autocrats and their wives. IL Is
weary thing TO be king or an emperor and no
one need ieel surprise II an absolute monarch IL
glad to hear anything which breaks the monotony
Of his dull existence and strs him up from the
uneasy slumber into which he is constantly thrown
by complaints, petitions and the endless repetition
OF inane ceremonies.
Not long alter the Russian Envoy at Berne had