AN AUTOCRAT'S CURE.
■ ACajrtaui "Webb's' foolhardy and fatal endeavour to shootthe rapids of Niagara yon awager of 10,000dpi/ ) recalls *an incident 1 of the ' reign; ofc/Czar Nicnolas, half a_centnry ago. Looking out of his ..window one day. that monarch saw a ; lkrge anbl interested crowd on the bank of the Neva. /He sent an officer: to find but the cause, and learned .that a man bad bet five roubles— about 14s — that heobuld run across the river on the ice, which was then m that treacherous, half liquid- state, caused by the commencement r of the . spring^.thaW; The man performed the perilous feet, received his five roubles, and . then Nicholas had'him arrested and : flogged with a hundred' stripes; *'fbry said the Czar, "a man who will riskihislife for such a sum is capable pf committing any act of baseness for a gimilar . consideratipn!.": ? v " eoHV/. v *;
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 272, 20 October 1883, Page 2
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146AN AUTOCRAT'S CURE. Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 272, 20 October 1883, Page 2
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