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Show Mr. Vaui; Did .Dance With Her. The story often told that tho late Hon. Richard Vaux had danced with Cjueen Victoria has been defied quite frequently since his death, but as a matter of fact he did dance with the queen. He was not her partner, it is true, but danced in what was known as tho queen's cotillou at the ball given in her honor in 1837, when he WaB secretary sec-retary of tho United States legation. Mr. Vans was selected by the queen herself her-self as one of the seven persons to join with her in tho dance, a very great honor. In the course of the evolutions in the cotillon he danced with the queen. This statement was made by Mr. Vaux to a well known Pennsylva-nian Pennsylva-nian who servod with him in the Fifty-first Fifty-first congress. Philadelphia Record. |