A JOKE COMING HOME.
Oom Pedro, the ex-Eo?peror of Brazil, is nqt wanting in a Uvejy sense of humour, which w^ll doubtless help him to bear his exile in comfort. A good story syas placed to his credit when ho was lasfc o?er in j this country. Amongst the various j places of interest to which he paid a visit flrhile sojourning with us was oug of tiw largest rolling-mills in the north. 0n fcefcpg informed by the manager wlw fio^luote^ him through the works that tUe fy-Vitopl t° the colossal machinery of tha estaissii.- ( ment made two hundred and fifty; resolutions a minute, his Majesty replied, " Indeed ! Why that beats our South American Eepublics." At that time D.om Pedro little thought, perhaps, that M* own country, over which he had ruled before most of his subjects were born, was destined to doyelop the Republican tendencies of its rsvolu..tionary neighbours. His sudden deposition after a reign extending o^t 3, period of more than sixty years aford^ a remarkable illustration of &O pioswwbial uncertainty of human flffwfr Wk*\¥? &° new
Republic is to last or to partake o|j the ephemeral character of those of some "of the other South American States remains to lie seen. — Daily Chronicle.
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Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 68, 22 March 1890, Page 1 (Supplement)
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