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Show acted after the Franco-German war. As his business was often complicated he declined to hurry over It, and used I to End as comfortable a seat as he could on the baron's writing table. London Chronicle. Guard Against Bores. Lord Rothschild's father. Baron Nathan, Na-than, guarded himself against time-wasters time-wasters by allowing no chairs in his private room in the city save the one occupied by himself. From a passage In the "Reminiscences of Charles Gavard." who was for many years first secretary at the Freach embassy in London, it appears that this precaution precau-tion did not always prove effective. Gavard frequently had occasion to visit St. Swithius lane In connection with the payment of the Indemnity ex- |