Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-02-20
BILL NYE's IMPRESSIONS or supo,.
Hand-Picked and Warranted to K..-.
Any Climate. u

Yes, he said, 81 have been abro.s
I this season. l am not absoIutaI,,
tain that | was not more or less 80 vi,
j Just now. You called to obtain s,.s.l
mems of my foreign impression nv,
course. If there is one thine ~
than another that | particularly ns5
myself upon it is my foreign inFn,,'.@
sions. only selected the choicest III
have carefully preserved every ona a
| them. ANY little runt of an imnrass;.I
that any fellow could pick up ! AIM
| bother with. Mine are all hand-nict.;
and warranted to keep in any clims"
| Several of the crowned heads of Fpros'
frankly admitted that they would rog
er have me roofing around their tbror,
picking up foreign impressions A,.
any other impeeUnious tourist that bs5
struck them for the wherewithal IN ~,
safely out of their domains for omit
spell. When | kicked a specimen N,
from under the dust of ages they wsr'
universally satisfied that it would h.
something that would do them cred,
| There is more or less danger in n.
business. however. Thrones are ..
| plenty in Europe that fellow wbo (,
practically unacquainted with m.
| geography of the country is liable n
stumble over one or more of tbemh
the dark and break his neck most arv
minute. On several occasions I no.
rowly escaped getting into serior,
trouble through stutfing a first-co.
hem-stitched European throne into nv
trousers pocket under the impressios
| that it was ham sandwich Several
of the German provinces for instanos
were so thickly studded with Gns
hand-painted thrones that | could pm
avoid the impression that the perspen.
tive looked like a buckwheat field /,
full bloom. travelled for week.
through Continental Europe witbop-
striking a man whom | dared to ad.
dress by a title less than king Or
prince. The stamp of nobility was IN
some cases a trifle sun-cracked, but
was always there. Sometimes tbs
stamp was in the form of rumed
shirt of a pre-Adamite vintage that
cried aloud for the caressing touch Of
a Chinese laundryman, and sometime,
in the form of a classic foot encased in
a furnished spur and sad memory Of
the past-but it was always there.
bill, said one of those sad-eyei
little German potentates to me one d7
as we sat idly in the sun on a bench
outside of the conciCrge-I think i
was the concierge witnin sound Of The
restless sea; Bill, were you ever
| KingP'
II was taken by surprise, but as
gazed down at the poor fellow my soul
went out in pity, and | determined 10
give him a civil answer if it took
leg.
''T may have been king for a short
time before arriving at years of dis.
cretion said kindly, but no one ever
accused me of it. In my country
these youthful indiscretions do not
stick to a man as they do here in Ger
many. A man may be a King for a
time and then repent his folly, and
America is full Of hands that viii bs
stretched out to help the poor fellog
to reform and rise III the world
go! that this were America, 10
said, with tears in his voice. Bill
may you never know the misery, The
heart hungeriug, of being a German
King without a subject. 1t was not
ever thus, however. | had a subject
once. but he was very sickly, and
few years ago, he died leaving me
alone in the world. Since then have
! searched in vain for man to take bis
place. | have been unable to find an!
neighboring King with two-hencs
none could be spared. q, Bill, ! an
| SO lonely so desolaten
Il was much affected.
Ajax l said-Ajax Agamemnon
was his family name-I am sorry for
you. But tell me, did you ever try TO
swap your throne off for clean shirt
and II decent pair of boots! Strike
some man who runs a museum and
you may be able to strike a bargain
with him. Then you might 60 OF
| somewhere where you are not known
and try to lead a nobler and better
The next moment | was alone win
the sound Of the restless waves. AJAX
had folded his royal rage about hun
and left me to my fater
Had you any special object in visit
ing EuropeP" Mr., Nye was asked.
Several of them, was the reply
81 was especially anxious TO invest
| gate the descent of the foreign mobility
which has become so extensively our
son-in-law of late. Our sweetest and
most decollete girls are going from o
so simultaneously nowadays that ar
rived at the conclusion that something
ought to be done about it. As the ca
reer of these titled foreign gentiemel
is almost all descent felt that tracing
it would partake of the nature OF W
boggan sliGe, and therefore be easy o.
accomplishment. | was not dlssE
pointed in the result. Out OF seYel~
thousand Dukes, Earls, Barons, Coun's
and other rare exotics, | found PEI,
haps half a dozen to whom ! wouu
be willing to marry the dining
room girl who always brings me a las'
summers egg for breakfast, out ~.
one whom ! would be willing TO taA'
into the bosom of my family and nls ~.
a side-show of. But this sort OF ME-
will doubtless 20 on just for al w
| void % +Lo,,ob Lod never OctA