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Dunstan Times, Issue 702, 1 October 1875, Page 4

The following is one of the many anecdotes told of the-late ex-Emperor Ferdinand of Austria :—“Ho was so delighted with the dumplings of coarse flour that he found one day at a farmer’s cottage, in which he had taken shelter from a storm, that he commanded their regular appearance on the royal table. The cooks rebelled, and the physicians joined in the revolt Hut Ferdinand, for the first time in life, was firm. To his physicians’ positive refusal to permit him to dine ■off dumplings, he replied with a stamp -of Lis foot and the obstinate declaration, “ Kaiser bin i’, und Knoedel muss i’ hahen !” (Emperor am I, and ■dumplings I will have ) The confederated cooks and physicians yielded to the inevitable as gracefully as -they knew how, and obstinate Viennese are even nowadays rebuked with the Emperor’s phrase.”

A woman was at the bottom of the ■agricultural strike in England, says Kate Field, and this was the way of it :—Mrs Vincent, wife to the editor of the Leamington Chronicle (who, by the way, lived many years in Massachusetts, and got to be quite a Yankee), was tunning that paper in her husband’s absence, one day in February, 1872, when a farm laborer walked into the office and said We are going to have a meeting ro-night, and we hope the Chronicle -will send n reporter, and make England hear us.” I don’t see the necessity,” exclaimed the assistant—a man. “I do,” replied Mrs Vincent. “ There is noliody to send,” argued the assistant editor. “ tome one must be found,” answered Mrs Vincent. Some one was found, ■and the, report did make England hear, and the revolution followed ; Hodge for the first .time called for his rights, and took a long step towards getting them. Kate, who grew a redder Republican than ever in her English sojourn, thinks there are serious grounds for fearing that “ the English revolution of 1895 may rival in atrocity, as well «s in beneficence, that of the Jb’nench 100 years earlier.”