The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-09-15
JOKES ON MONARCHS.
Some Daring Franks PIayec
 Upon Royal Personages.
A FLOWER FOR THE KAISER.
Decorations That Made His Majesty Explode With Wrath-A Medical Di- pIoma For Prince of WaIes-The Duke and the Stockholders,

AOAAO J SdAS oSo O dDpGdT sd in Berlin daily stating that Prime, Henry, who had just returned iron his visit to the United States, hai brought home as a present to hi, brother number of plants of a new variety of crimson carnation. "A! every one knows," the para graph con cluded, '.the red carnation is his i'm perial majesty's favorite fower.'
 On the day after the publication o1 this news the kaiser was due at Aix la-Chapelle. A member of the towr council suggested that every one ir the town wear a buttonhole of the kaiser's favorite flower.
 The suggestion was at once acted on. The frock coateas sAaembers of the deputation which waited next moEning on the platform each wore proudly a buttonhole of the deepest crimson.
 The poor fellows could not conceive why the kaisers demeanor was SC freezing. He dismissed them with a few words, got into his carriage and drove off.
 At the town hall was another deputa- tion, similarly decorated. Then his majesty's wrath exploded. What is the meaning of this inshltY he de handed. Some one explained, and then one of the kaisers attendants took the, mayor aside. My dear sir,'' he said. 4surely you know. that the red carnatfon is the emblem of the Social Democrats and of all flowers the one which his majesty chiefly detests"
 Many years ago King Edward VII, then Prince of Wales, was the sub- ject of stupid hoax. He received a letter informing him of his unanimous election as honorary member of the Princeton medical faculty and signed by three students. With his inyariable courtesy the recipient requested his private secretary to- acknowledge it. The reply said, His royal highness will remember with pride and satis- faction the mark of distinction re cefved at the hands of the Princeton medical faculty.''
 As matter of fact, there is not and never was such an organization.
 As impudent a hoax as ever was heard of was perpetrated in 1904 upon a Belgian, paper. A letter, purporting to be in the handwriting and above the signature of Princess Louise of Coburg was received by the editor, who very foolishly published it with out first assuring himself as to its gen uineness.
 This letter gave long catalogue of her sisters and constituted a most brutal attack upon her father, the king of the Belgians.
 The letter was at once copied by a number of other papers, including more than one in England. Naturally it gave great pain to the princess her self, and the only wonder is that a prosecution for libel was not the inn mediate result.
 Some years ago young American woman who was staying in Copen- hagen made a bet with friend that she would propose to the king of Den- mark.
 On one of the kings public reception days the American lady found her way to the royal residence
 What can I do for you, madam ?'' asked the king.
 "Your majesty, desired to ask you if you would like to marry meY was the reply.
 The king merely smiled.
 'I am afraid I am little too old" he said, and at the same moment he beckoned to one of the officials to con- duct the lady to the door. He had put her down as harmless lunatic.
 3oJ~ Nf played upon the first cousin of the en- peror of Austria, the Archduke Sal vator, once when he was in Paris. He was passing the bourse-the Parisian equivalent of the Stock Exchange when his companion, lanky young French count, suggested that he might look inside,
 If you walk straight in," he said, ssno one will notice you. They will take you for a stockbroker'
 The duke took him at his word, but of course he was no sooner inside than he was recognized as sightseer. His silk hat was instantly spirited away, and he was at once surrounded by mob of dealers with notebooks shouting fabulous offers to buy or sell stock
 The duke had a desperate struggle to reach the front lobby, and when at last he got there, hat1ess and breath less, he found that some genial soul had pinned long price list to the tails of his coat.
 It is not likely that any reigning sovereign ever got more unpleasant scare than did Ferdina.d of Bulgaria some five years ago. His private sec retary, a young baron, was away in Austria on a vacation when a letter arrived for his royal master announc- ing that he did not propose to return and that he would be glad for the sum of 0,00O; otherwise, he wrote, he would be compelled to sell number of secret documents which he had taken away with him.
 Instantly Prince Ferdinand dis patched a couple of secret service en- voys in chase of his missing secretary, whom they ran to ground peacefully shooting on. his own estate Further Investigation proved the missive to be nothing but hoax.--London Answers.
 Sympathy.