St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-12-04

strongly marked as when | saw him
before under strangely different cir
cumStanceS.
| addressed him, and the German burr
of his speech convinced me that | had
not been mistaken.
"Have you been long in America"
MANY years now sir"
"a great country, isn't it?'
IL hat liked it much"
you remember Germany too we'll to
stay"
He broke in Jncontrolably:
81 hat no memory Of Germany. This
is my country"
Here the count conductor wheeled 10
the platform, and he was still leaning
there when Jumped Of the car.
Here in New York | have helped to
bury an English lord, the heir 10 the
Scotch earldom of Perth and to the
French dukedOm of Melfort, who had
spent the last two years of his life as
the porter Of a great publishing
house; [ have been waited upon
in a downtown restaurant by a
prince bearing one OF the grand
est names of Europe. TO a German
count have paid my dime at one Of the
most dingy museums of the Bowery.
where he was acting as dOorkeeper.
have met starving in the streets of New
York an eX-eqaerry Of Prince Henry of
Pnssia, whose father has held the Office
of prime minister While in Florida
three or four years ago | came across
an English barOnet, Sir Francis Osborne
by name, who was working as day
laborer at the rate of 81 per diem. To-
day he is back in England, and, having
married a lady possessed of some prop
erty. is no longer obliged to toll hard
for his living, as he did when employed
i'll that saw mill at Acton, Fla
The Count Manages u Hotel
Among other men of rank ana title in
this country now endeav9ring to earn a
livelihood in spheres altogether differ
cnt from those in which they were born
in the old world are Count George Karol-
vi. son of the great Hungarian magnate
of that name, who headed the cavaIcade
of Magyar princes and +lobles which
escorted the Emperor Frances Joseph
from the railroad station at Buda PeSth
to the royal castle on the occasion of the
coronation jubilee festivities last sum
mer. Count George, who eXpatriated
himself in consequence Of the opposition
of his family to his marriage with the
actress, BOriSka Frank, is now acting as
hotel manager at San Francisco. His
wife occupies the position of house
keeper OF the establishment, while
Count Ladislas Szechenyi, who was
formerly an Austrian cavalry officer and
aid-de-camp to the governor general OF
Croatia. besides being the nephew OF
the Austrian ambassador at Berlin. full
fills the duties of bookkeeper. The hal
porter Of this exceedingly ariStocratiC
hotel is a Count Logothetti, who was
also formerly an Austrian cavalry of
1icer, and, like Count SZechenyi, &
member of the staff of the governor
general Of Croatia.
At jacksonville, Fla, there is. OF
rather was, short time ago porter in
d wholesale grocery store bearing The
name Of Wolff. He is the younger
brother of the Right Honorable Sill
Henry Drummond Wolff, G. 9. B.. Brit
ish ambassador TO the court of Spain
Mr.. Wolff, whose mother was Lady
Ge0rgianna Walpole, daughter of the
second earl Of Oxford, graduated witt
honors at the Oxford university
but subsequently came to grief finan
cially, and thereupon emigrated to thi!
country, where he has held in turn thu
position of dry goods clerk, bill collector
and bal tender before becoming
grocery porter.
a Princely Waiter.
The prince whom | refer to above a
having been waiter of an oyster hous,