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Show Aristocrats in Gutter. We hear rumors of grand dukes and other members of the old nobility of Kussln driving cabs and peddling bootlaces boot-laces In Petrogrnd. This Is no new thing In Europe. In England the descendants de-scendants of the great l'lantagenets have been found In very lowly occupations. occupa-tions. A few years ago n lawsuit proved that a genuine Bourbon was then hawking vegetables In the streets of Paris. A few years earlier a son of a cousin of Empress Josephine. Napoleon's Na-poleon's first love, was sent to prison for petty larceny. In 18I'J the Marquis DeFollgne was an omnibus conductor; the Comte de la Marelie was a house painter; the Marquis DeTorcey d'Kti'l-linde d'Kti'l-linde kept a small inn at Carnae. and the Murquls d'Hauteroche, a descendant descend-ant of the nobleman who, at the battle bat-tle of Fontenoy. called out to the English : "Tires les premiers," was a gendarme. |