The Anaconda standard., 1890-07-20
STORIES OF GREAT men
Some Anecdotes Of Celebrities That
Are Worthy Of Repetition.
Prince Bismarck's Iron Ring and the
Incident II Commentaries as
Told by Himseif-A Dying
Hero's Care for Soldiers.

n Of great man, says Chambers
Journal, are always interesting,
since, although they may not he an index
To his character. they show the leaning Of
his mind for the time. Prince Bismarck
has filed for 10 years the largest space i'm
European politics. Little romance is asso-
ciated with our idea OF the iron chancel-
lor; but when the story Of "Nitschewo" is
told, IL Is eviednt he is not altoge ther de-
void OF sentiment. He wears n large iron
ring with the inscription of "Nitschewo,"
q Russian word signifying "no matter"
and much used by the natives of that
country.
The story Of the ring, which everywhere
excited remark, was told by the chancel-
lor himself. In 1862, when he was ambas-
sador at st. Petersburg. he received an in
vitation Ia an imperial hunt; but, unluck-
lily, he missed the rendezvous. A peasant
undertook to drive him i'm his two-horse
sleigh to the spot in time, and Bismarck
accepted. Being an enthusiastic hunts
man, and afraid of losing the sport, he
said:
"You'll be sure TO be in time"
The answer of the peasant was n curt
"Nistchewo." The pace was not swift
enough for Bismarck; the peasant, there
fore, with another "Nitschewo," lashed
the horses into such pace that the sleigh
was overturned and its occupants thrown
out. Bismarck threatened punishment,
but still his answer was the laconic "Nits-
chewo." However, they reached the hunt
i'm time. Bismarck did not forget 10 pick
up piece Of iron from the broken sleigh
which he had made into ring as a me-
mento of the occasion. Bismarck is said
to have added:
"My good Germans have often re-
preached me with being too indulgcnt Ia
Russia, but they should remember that
while ! am the only one in Germany who
uses "Nitschewo" on critical occasions a
hundred thousand IN Russia are saying II
at the same moment"
Every one knows how, when Sir Walter
| Scott was boy, the future novelist was
| lost during thunder storm, and found by
| the alarmed searchers, lying on his bac k
on the hillside looking at the lightning,
clapping his hands at each flash, and ex-
claiming: "Bonnie! Bonnier' But a story
of the same kind, with Frederick won
| Schiller, the German poet, as the hero, is
not so well known. One day, while very
| small boy, a severe thunder storm came
on : the boy was missed and could nowhere
be found. The whole household searched
for him, bat II was not until the storm
was pus. .'i' ne was seen ueseeno,,,p =,
ho,,.a VI" To H. ;n,'..;n' ~ IL ta,hn W.
To his motives, he replied: ~ only wished
to see where all the fire came from"
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