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Show Bow Bismarck Called HI SerTuat. ! When Bismarck was Prussian dele-I dele-I gate to the Federal Diet nt Frankfort I he took apartments in the house of a patrician of that free city, who held the Prussians in ;?K;it repuimance: and . when Bismarck uppUed to him to have I a bell flied up in his servant's room he answered that tlmt was not in the 1 agreement, and that If Bismarck wanted a beli he uiuet pet It fixed himself, him-self, and at his own eipense. A few days later a loud report of urearmsf was heard to proceed from the delegate's I room. The landlord, frightened to i death, rushed op to his lodger's apartments, apart-ments, and bursting, all ont of breath, Into Bismarck's- study found him seated at his desk before a great pile of documents docu-ments nnd caludy smoking his pipe. Tliere was a pistol lying on the table, . still smoking at the barrel. "For the love of heaven, what has happened f" i asked the frightened landlord, more dead than alive. "Nothing, nothing," I answered Bismarekquiotly; "don'tdis-I "don'tdis-I turb yourself; 1 was only calling my j servant. It Is a very harmless signal, to which you will have to aooostom ; yourself, for no doubt I shall want of-i of-i ten times to use it again." The bell waa fljeed up next day. San Francisco 1 Argouaut. |