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Show The Real JtusBia. The Emperor Nicholas he who sent 150.000 troops Into Hungary In 1843 to help out a brother despot sent to Francis rv. of Prussia for two grenadiers. grena-diers. He wanted them to perform certain cer-tain masBage uppn the imperial back while Its possessor lay upon the imperial im-perial Btomach. "I can always manage my Russians when I can look them In thofface," he said, according to Bismarck, "but on my stomach and without eyes I should not like them to come near mo.'"i He got the grenadiers. In 1859 tho Russian Emperor saw a soldier In the middle of a grass-plot in the palace grounds. Why was there a dally cuard, relieved at stated Intervals? Inter-vals? No ono knew. Curiosity was aroused and at last a veteran was discovered dis-covered who remembered hearing his father say that the Empress Catherine she died in 1727 once saw a snowdrop in bloom at that point unusually early and asked that a guard be stationed there to protect it. And there a sentinel sen-tinel remained for at least 132 years; no one knew how much longer. From Bismarck's Bis-marck's Autobiography. |