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Show NATIONALITY NO 'DIFFERENCE. They are laughing in Washington over a rebuke re-buke that a sentry of one of the departments administered ad-ministered recently to the Russian ambassador's coachman. The coachman, it appears, wished to drive his master's "carriage along a roadway that for some reason was barred. When the sentry refused iO let the cairiage pass the coachman remonstrated. "I drive," he said, "ze Russian minister." "I can't help it," returned the sentry. "Let me t'rough," persisted the coachman. "Myi master is ze Count Cassini, ze ambassador extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of ze czar of all ze Russias." "Frenchy," said the sentry, "I wouldn't let you through even if your master was a free born American citizen." |