The Nevada picayune., 1885-07-09
What a Kiss Did.

oWeueI, ilNeu young student, q lonely youth, with great love for studies, but without means of pur . suing them. ne was poor and without connections. Still he studied, lived in g1 eat poverty, but keeping up cheerful heart, and trying not to look at the future. which looked so grimly at him. His good llumor and good qualities made him beloved by his young companions.
 Once he was standing with scme of them in the great square of Up sala; willing away an hour of leis. ure; when the attention of the young man was arrested by q very young elegant lady, who at the side of the elderly one, walked leisure ly over the place. It was the daughter of the Governor of Upsa- la, living in the city, and the lady with her was her governcss. She was generally known for her gen. tleness and goodness of character, and was looked upon with admira- ton by the students. As the young men now stood gazing at her, as she passed on like a grace ful vision, one of them exclaimed:
 "Well, it would be worth some- thing 10 have a kiss from such q mOuth.'
 The poor stud ent, the hero of our story, who was looking inten. ty at that pure, angelic face, ex- claimed, as if by aspirations:
 "Well, I think ] could have it."
 What w cried his friends in a chorus. 'arc you crazy' Do you know hesW
 "Not at all," he answered; "but l think she would kiss me if ask ed her"
 "What, in this place, before all our eyes?'
 "In this place, before your eyes"
 "Freely:"
 "Freely."
 "Well, if she will givcyou kiss in that manner, l will give you s1,OOOw exclaimed one of the par ty.
 And Im "And Iw cried three or four others; for it so happened that several rich young men were in the group. Bets run high on so improbable an event; and the chal- lenge was made and received in less time than we take to relate it.
 Our hero (my authority tells me not whether he is handsome or plain; I have my peculiar ideas for believing he was rather plain, but singularly good looking at the same time)-our hero immediately walk ed off to the young lady and said: "Mein Fraulein, my fortune is in your hands," She looked at him in astonishment, but arrested her steps. He proceeded to state his name, condition and aspirations, and passed between him and his companions,
 The young lady listened atten- lively, and when he ceased to speak, she said blnshingly, but with great sweetness, 'If by so little a thing much can be efiec- ted, it would be foolish for me to refuse your rcquest;' and she kiss ed the young man publicly in the open square.
 Next day the student was sent for by the Governor. He wanted to see the man who had dared to geek kiss from his daughter that way and whom she had consented so to kiss. He received him with scrutinizing brow, but after an hours conversation was so pleased with him that he invited him to dine at his table during his studies at Upsala.
 Our young friend now pursued his studies in a manner which soon made him regarded as the most promising scholar in the universi- ty. Three years were not passed after that day of the first kiss when the young man was allowed to give a second one to the daughter of the Governor, as his intended bride.
 He became later one of the greatest scholars in Sweden, as much respected for his learning as