’ When the late Prince Bismarck was in London, in 1843; he-was invited to visit a' famous brewery, and his hosts, having heard of his -reputation as a beer-drinker of great prowess, presented to him an enormous tankard of bid ale, in the confident expectation that he would be obliged to admit himself vanquished by it. “I seized the tankard,” Bismarck told Sir Charles Dilke, who relates the story, “and I thought of my- country [ and drank to Prussia, and tilted it . till it was empty. Then I thanked my entertainers—courteously, I hope-—and succeeded in making my way safely as far as London. Bridge. There I sat down in one of the stone recesses, and for hours the great bridge went round and round me.” . . • * The late Queen of Denmark always moved' and,' spogc with deliberation. She once told, a friend that she believed hurry to have been responsible for half the sins ever committed, : She added, “People call me good-tempered; that is because I never allow myself to be flur- , The usual autumn* bush burning has begun in Marlborough, and Tieton has been enveloped in a STue haze during the past few days, from bush fires down tue Sound.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 3676, 28 February 1899, Page 2
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