Morning journal and courier., 1886-02-09
Queen NatalIe,s Sewing Machines.

From the Norristown Pa.) Herald.l
 We have just learned, on excellent author ity, that the day following the announce
 ment that Queen Natalie had purchased for
 ty American sewing machines and set women to work in the royal palace making clothes
 for the Servian army, an agent for machine of another manufacturer secured an inter view with her majesty, on pretence that he brought news of "another Servian victory" and immediately proceeded to business. 'Your most gracious majesty," he began, 'I know you will pardon this intrusion when I inform you that some unprineipled agent, taking advantage of your ignorance relative to the merits of the various sewing machines, has induced you to purchase 6 perfectly worthless article, but our company has re- solved that this great wrong shall be righted. I am therefore authorized to remove the for ty Hummer machines now in the royal pal ace and replace them with an equal number of the world-renowned- Preside machine, which embodies the best features of all oth CT machines, besides possessing many merits of it's own-a machine provided with an able bodied feller, an electric hammer, broad gauge reaper and binder, a self-acting baster-using double-extension needle ranted not to cut in the eye, and the whole
 business running so lightly that a child ten
 years old can turn out forty pairs of army pants in one day' Before the Queen had recovered from the dazed condition into which the effrontery and volatility of her visitor had thrown her the agent had sum- moned a dozen of his accomplices, and in side of twenty minutes the forty EHum- mers' were standing on the sidewalk and the same number of "Firesides" occupied their places i'll the palace.
 Next day another stranger sought an audi l enoe with the Queen, declaring that his mis- sion was most important. IA messenger from the King" thought her ajesty, who ordered him to be admitted. "1 have fortu nately learned" said the messeng T, "that some unconscionable person in the gulse ot a man mas by actual force, as 1t were, placed in the royal palace forty sewing machines which are not worth the room they occupy, and will cause more dissatisfaction in the house than 6 cold dinner; but you shall not
 suffer because of your lack of knowledge in
 such matters. I have the honor"-handing
 the Queen his business card-''to represent
 the latest improved and only perfect machins
 ever invented-the ''Ne Plus Ultra"-which
 is marvel of simplicity and multum in
 parvo of usefulness. It's sales last year kept
 our factory running night and day, and the
 first of January found us with twelve thou
 sand thrilled orders hand. The Ne Plus
 Ultra has magic futer, revolving washer
 and ironer automatic baby-spanker and self
 regulating alarm clock attached, the whole
 forming the most complete and desirable
 household article the ingenuity of man ever
 conceived. I an ordered to remove the
 'Fireside' now in the palace and substitute
 forty of our peerless Ne Plus Ultra-and the
 only compensation ask is a certificate
 over your own signature stating that our ma
 chine is the best in the market, and permis-
 mission to use your portrait in our adver-
 tisement." And before the Queen could in
 terpose word of objection the forty Fire
 side machines were hustled out on to the
 sidewalk and corresponding number of
 ''Ne Plus Ultras" were hurriedly lugged into
 tfs palace. Early next morning the harassed
 Queen locked up the palace and went over to
 spend week with her Aunt Rachel, and at
 last accounts twenty seven agents were
 shadowing the royal residence, awaiting an
 opportunity to bounce the Ne Plus Ultras.