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Show An Ambitious Order. Lord Palmerston expected work to be done well, but of mere y :c?dillce3 he was tolerant. Some youi!g gentie-tnen gentie-tnen in the foreign office amused themselves them-selves by "shining" young !adies who lived on the other side of the street that is, by catching the rays of the sun on a mirror and flashing them Over the way. The father of the young ladies complained com-plained to Palmerston, who thereupon Issued this minute: "The secretary of state desires that the gentlemen in this department will not cast disagreeable reflections on the ladies opposite." London Chronicle. Chron-icle. i |