Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-04-10

When the news came Of the revolution Ia
Turkey and the deposition OF Abdul Aziz, Queen
Victoria, 1t Is said lost no time In Intervening
In his behalf by telegraphing to Constantinople
and expressing her hope that the ex-sultan
i would not be subjected to any violence or ILL
of him said her majesty; but the Cruel tele
graph made her say "Satgnez lie bien' bleed hin
well; and how they bled him all the worl6
Knows The story Is not impossible.
In his last annual report the postmaster
general owns that poor woman. telegraph1nl
TO a relative, MARY Is bad" had her message
rendered MARY is Dead" and that a pleasure
party wishing to advise their friends at home Of
their safety by the assurance that they had 'ar
rived all night" scandaltZed the anxious ones
with the announcement, 1--WE have arrived al
tight But many jokes are perpetrated by tn,
wire without receiving official recognition
A noble lord, as proud and fond as maj
should De OF his beautiful young wife, was JUS
gram was put into his hands He read It. lef
the house, jumped into cab drove to Char
Ing Cross, and took the train for Dover Mex
day he returned home, rushed into his wifet
room; and, nnd1ng her there, upbraided the as
ton1shed lady In no measured terms She
protested her ignorance Of having done any.
thing to offend him.
"Then what did you mean by your teleoramo,
he asked. "N'
you talking about?"
..Read IL for yourself said he
She read: Il flee with Mr,-to Dover
straight. Pray for me-"
For the moment words would not come; then.
aIter merry fit OF laughter, the suspected wi e
people! NO wonder you are out Of your mind,
dear telegraphed simply: 4 tea with Mrs
- In Dover street. Stay for me-"
klng John OF Saxony was prone to dropping in
upOn onclalS when they least expected him.
One day he appeared at the telegraph Office of a
small station. The clerk appraised his colleague
at the next station Of the unwelcome visit, and
before an acknowledgment OF the warming came
enltphtpn nirfp
monarch respecting the business of his ONCE
presently message came along the wires and
I n,S majesty Desired 10 oe acquainted with its
was not TO De put Off, and insisted on the mes
sage being repeated to him; so the stammerinp
clerk nad no cholce but to regale the royal ears
WIN the German equivalent for: 1.-THE king
pokes his nose into everything" IL King John
was annoyed by the tmpertinence he had to
thank himself for it.
D such was hardly the case with the late Earl
RuSSell. one evening, when he was the minis
yer 10 attendance at Balmoral, little old man.
buried In great coat, handed a telegram al
dressed 10 one OF the ministers in London to the
telegraph clerk In one of the stations on the
Deeside railway. The clerk, after glancing AT
the message threw it contemptuously back
WIN: PUT your name to 1t. It's pity your
master does not know how to send telegram"
The name was added. why, you can't writer
exclaimed the clerk after vainly trying to make
something OF the signature. whats your
name?"
is John Russell"
That clerk was transferred to another Office
before many days passed.
Writing OF the difficulty English engineers ex-
perienced In making educated PerSianS under
stand the working OF the electric telegraph MT.
MOunSey says:-"AIuch of the time of one of Our
officers was occupied during several weeks In
attempting TO enlghten the mind of provincial
governor, who had got it into his head that the
wires were hollow tubes, and that messages
We're transmitted rams through them as in the pneu-
matlc post In vain was the whole apparatus
SHOWN TO his highness; in vain even all its parts
explained and re-explaned-he stuck to his
following smile that he was at last Induced to
rellnqulsh it,, and declare himself satisfied
Imagine. said the officer, "a dog whose tail Is
neie at lenefan ana his mlZzle in London; tread
on his tail here and he will bark there.'o