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Show Bisroarck'8 Welching Machine. Close by tho side of Prince Bismarck's bath is a weighing chair, covered with red velvet, of tho most modora construction, construc-tion, and tho great German minister uovor falls to "try his weight" at least once a day, or to record tho result of hia trial in tho small diary ho keeps attached by a string to the arm of tho weighing cdair for the purpose. There was a time when the prince scaled tho somewhat Onrgantuau weight of 247 pounds; but "much has happened ainco then," as his late friend Lord BeaconsSold once re-miirkcd. re-miirkcd. And, among other things, tho prince has taken not to "Banting-," but to a more recent system of dealing with ono's "too, too solid flesh." Thauka to determined deter-mined perseverance In tho system, the Ciermau chancellor was last Friday ablo to announce at tho breakfast table, in a tono of triumph, that he that morning only weighed 1D0 pounds. Europo, which has such a deep Interest in Prince Bismarck's continued life and good health, would do well, if possible, to sconre for information informa-tion a daily return of the weights recorded re-corded in tho chancollor's littlo diary. London Figaro. |