APPENDIX. 263 



TYRANNY SUPERIOR TO THE RUSSIAN. 



As an instance of the tyranny of the despot, 

 may be related the case of the Russian envoy, 

 after a court dinner given in Bulgaria in the latter 

 part of 1884, by Prince Alexander. The rest of 

 the company having withdrawn, the envoy lin- 

 gered in the dining-room to enjoy his cigarette, 

 while chatting with a Russian staff-officer who 

 was in the Bulgarian service. The court chamber- 

 lain courteously took the officer aside, and deli- 

 cately reminded him that there was a smoking 

 apartment, and that to smoke in the dining-room 

 was contrary to etiquette. When the officer made 

 this known to the envoy, he instantly left the 

 palace in high dudgeon. The next morning, the 

 prince learning what had happened, hastened to 

 the envoy to express his regret, and forthwith dis- 

 missed the chamberlain. Verily, tobacco is king. 



The narrator of this event remarks : " I have 

 heard of various immunities attached to the post of 

 envoy, but I never heard that they were exempt 

 from the rules of common politeness." If he had 

 paused to think, he would have remembered that 

 tobacco tramples on all such rules without let or 

 hindrance. 



AN ENCOURAGING TOKEN. 



The following appeal from the New Orleans 

 Picayune is an encouraging token : — 



" If New Orleans proposes properly to care for 



