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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIII, Issue 39, 22 January 1886, Page 19

The E<nperor of Germany's private banker, Hrr Coin, attributes his enjoyment of Imperial favour to a simple happy thought that presented itself to him in the very nick of time many, many years ago. When the Empress Augusta was still Princess of Prussia, she undertook a railway journey in bitter winter weather, and her to**s got terribly cold by the way ; co, during one of tbe stoppage* she Bent an attendant to get a bottle filled with hot water. As ill-luck would have it, every drop of hot water bad that moment been used in making coffee, for the frozen traveller* who were thronging the refreshment room. Tbe prospect ye displeasure of the Princess filled the man in charge with despair. But one of the coffee drinkers was equal to the emergency, and seising the coffee-pot be poure 1 its boiling contents into the bottle. The attendant upon returning to the carriage retired the incident to the Princess, who at once demanded the name of tbe quick witted traveller. It was Cohn. The Princess never forgot him, aud receives him to this day with marked cordiality, while he is, of course, entrusted with much of the Emperor's private financial business.