Eureka Reporter | 1905-09-08 | Page 4 | Archduke's Earned Florin

archdukes earned florin among the bequests of the arch duke joseph of austro hungary to his son Is the only florin I 1 ever really earned it hangs in a gold rimmed tortoise shell frame above my desk at buda besth the archduke earned it at flume by showing a french en gincer from creuzot over the gardens and greenhouses of his place there this person had rung at a private gate which the archduke opened and thinking the latter a steward s as distant or a gardener asked him to take him around he understanding that strangers were admitted to see the grounds archduke joseph rather enjoyed the mistake and said he would be very pleased lie talked in a plain blunt manner and seemed so little the man of consequence that the visitor on leaving presented him with a florin tor the trouble be had been at