Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1882-04-14
ORLOFF THE STRONG,

N esCh u On0 VI tMO 1sHTkonu
and Strongest men thst Ever
Lived. His adventure with tas
Porter.
About sixteen miles from St. Peters.
burg In tho midst ola wide plain stands
the Cars country palace of Tsarsko o.
Selo, Gears Village,) the great park
of which Is q very pretty place in fine
and July you may see the Russian chill.
dren running about under the trees by
scores, with shouting and laughing
that would do the Cars heart good to
hear if he were anywhere wi hin reach.
In every shady spot you are pretty sure
to tind a picnic party making merry on
the grass, with two or three well-filled
lunch baskets beside them; and when
you come to the little summer houses
near the lake, you will most likely tiud
at least half dozen people in each,
gathered around a great bowl of pros.
|lokvosk, which is the Russian name tor
curds and cream. This lake Is one of
the great sights of the park, for it
has boat house filled with a model of
every kind of boat in the world, down
to the Greenland fishing boats and
Po'ynesian war canoes; and when they
are all sent floating over the lake after
dark, hing with colorod lamps, they
make very fine show indeed. But
there is something even better worth
seeing little further on and that is the
palace museum, filled with strange
presents, which have been given to the
Russian Cars by various kings, saw.
age or civilized, from jewelad sword,
presented by the first Napoleon, to a
Persian carpet, sent by the Ameer of
Bokhara
On table near the door lies very
Gu ious relic, which every one who
tvmes in notices at once. 1t is large
silver dish, rolled up like a sheet of
paper, so as to make a kind of funnel;
and if you ask the old soldier who
shows the museum how it came to be
twisted up like that, he will give a
knowing grin, and ask if you ever heard
Count Gregory Orloti.
This Gregory Orlult was a Russian
count who lived about hundred years
ago, and was not only q count, but an
admiral as vel, though there were peo.
pie who said that if he had to man
age the fleet by himself, instead of hav-
ing tLree or four excellent naval com.
manders 70 help him, he would have
made a poor job of it.
But whatever doubt there might be
about his seamanship, there could b.
none about his strength. for he was one
OF the largest ard most powerful men
in Russia. Like many Other giants, he |
was, perhaps, just a little too fond of
showing Oft his great strength. Nothing |
pleased him more than to bend horse |
shoe between his fingers, or pull out of |
the ground stake which no one else |
could move; and if one of his sailors
turned mutinous, and began to make a |
II oise, Orlotf would just take him by
throat, and shake him as a cat shakes
d mouse, after which the hrawler was
usually quiet enough.
Now it happened that one night this
strong handed admiral was at an even.
ing party at the palace, and as he was
handing a boquet of flowers to one of
the ladies', the silver paper which was
wrapped around it slipped Off. Orlotf
said nothing, but stepped to the supper
able, and taking up silver dish, rolled
it up like piece of paper, put the Oou-
Iuet into it, and banded it to the LADY,
Ind that is the dish you see in the mu.
scum.
Not long after this Orotf' arrived in
st. Petersburg from journey, and was
net at his own door by "a messenger
ron the palace, who told him that the
Empress particularly wished 10 see him
md that he must 60 to her At once.
some men would have waited to put on
heir finest clothes, and to make them
elves look quits gay and dandited;
'ut the admira was used to obey orders
II once, and Oft he started for the pal
Ice, just rs he was.
Now, while the admiral had been
ourneying, there had come to the pal.
zee new hall porter who had never
cen him before. This porter was a
trong fellow, although not near as big
Is Orion, and not nice tempered man
" any means; 50 when he saw the ad-
niral's coarse looking, ugly figure com.
ng to the door of the stately palace in
: dusty travelling dress, he shouted
Iercely: II
"Be off, you vagabond You've no
BUSINESS here Who are you? III
hould like to know ?'
Orlorff never answered, but stopped
nd picked up long iron bar that .
astened the door at nights. One jerk
{ his great strong hands twisted it '
round the porter's neck like a ribbon,
o that the poor fellow had to hold up {
be ends. Z
"Now, my boy said he, with broad
rim, Ego and show yourself to the ,
impress with that iron collar on, and
he will know who am -
Then the porter knew at once that {
MS must be the terrible Count Orlotf,
whose strength he had heard so much I
nd he fell to his knees to ask pardon.
ut Orlctt only laughed aud told him
OF to be quite so ready to Judge man 8
y his on side another time; and, in.
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