The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-11-26

are Vi tllat SOFT tnat nc WOulu certainty NC
able to pass our examinations for tho post
of refendery. knew this long ago but
nobody believed me. I told the King so
in 1854 and 1855. He CNapoleon)
has not the least idea how
matters stand with us. When was made
minister in Paris had long conversation
with him in 1851. 1t was then his opinion |
that we should not last long-that there
would be an emeute in Berlin and revo-
luton throughout the whole country, and
that if a plebiscitum were held the King
would find everything against him. told
him then that our people were no barricade
builders, and that in Prussia nobody but
Kings made revolutions; that If the King
only chose to endure the strain there exist
ing tor three or four years he would win
the game; that i'll Majesty did not get
weary of the whole business, and did not
give me up, should not fall; and that II
he even then appealed to the people, and al
lowed them TO vote, nine-tenths OF them
would be in his favor The Emperor,
speaking of me at the time said "Ce ri'est
'pgs un homme sirieuX.' | did not remind
him of this when we met in the wcavers cot
tage at Don Chiry"
1t will be remembered that Jules Favre
was sent to treat for peace when the Prus-
slams were before Paris. The incident OF
his weeping having been mentioned, Prince
Bismarck said: True; he certainly looked
like it, and | endeavored to comfort him to
some extent; but when | watched him
little more closely, came to the conclu-
sion that he had not squeezed out SINCE
tear. He probably thought he couid work
upon me by theatrical performance, as
the Paris advocates do upon their audien-
ces and am positively convinced that at
Ferriercs he had painted his face white
especially the second time that he came to
see me there That morning he was of a
! greyer tint than before, in order to play
the part of one overcome by grief and In
deep suffering. Perhaps he may re-
= ally have felt something, but he
is no politician-he ought to
!, have known that explosions Of feeling
p. are not appropriate to politics. When
=. mentioned something about Strasburg and
4 Metz, he made grimace, as though | had
i been cutting joke. l might have told
=. him what the great furrier in Berlin once
>, said to me. One day went with my wife
4 to look out for fur coat, and he asked mt
n a long price for the one which best pleased
me. You are surely joking" | observed
No" Ne replied, never in business" Ii
Versailles, Favre had got still greyer, anc
, stouter to boot, the latter, probably, OIL
- horse flesh. But he looked, on the whole
= like man who had gone through so mucl
! veXation and excitement that he did no
T. care a curse what happened to him. Il
- was extremely difficult to make militar,
- matters at all ineligible to him. He Otter
- remarked to me that France was the Ian,
VI OF freedom, whilst We were reigned over b.
l" despotism. On one occasion, | remarke
to him that We were in want of money, an
Is that Paris would have to find some for u:
IL He reioined that I'VE could issue loan,
replied that we could not do that withou
parliament or the diet. "Ahl" he cricC
Of you can manage to get hold Of 500 100000
ire francs without the chambers | answered
his NO, not five francs" lie would not be
m. lieve me, but told him that | had live
Gle for four years in a chronic state of war wit
the national representatives; but that tn
issue OF loan without the consent Of tn
, diet had always been the barrier up t
-. which had arrived, and that it had new,
" even occurred to me % step over it. Tn
l.. appeared to somewhat shake his conviction
-. he only remarked that zen France on he
~ gencr dit pas" and promptly returne
-, to his thporem that France w
-, in possession Of enormous libc
~ ties 1t is really uncommonly funn
=, to hear Frenchmcn talk in this wa
~, especially Fayre, who always belonged
the opposition. But that's how they all ar
You can administer five and twenty lash,
to any Frenchman, if you will only max
him fine speecl, all about the freedom an
SEES human dignity expressed in those sam
'"' lashes making the appropriate gestures
your Grafton; he will forthwith persuat
in himself that he is NOT being logged!
ess A curious anccdotc about Morny is relate
IAN by his former diplomatic colleague at
ark Petersburg. When Morny was appointc
in us minister in the Russian capital, he arrive
ely with long procession of splendid, cegal
18th carriages, and countless trunks al Gran
,lo. med full of laccs silks and ladies' toilette
4 for which, as a foreign envoy he had |
in duty to pay Every single servant had h
hat own carriage, every secretary and attacl
the at least two, and he himself five or 81
,ro. Two days after his arrival he sold the who
,re. lot by auction carriages lace fashionab