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Show Dry Enough Count Pedro Maura y Sereda said at a dinner at the Spanish embassy: "Madrid is on the Manzanares river." The Manzanares probably contains less water than any river in the world, yet no stream has ever been so joked about. "A German said it was the best river riv-er he had ever seen, as it was navigable nav-igable either by automobile or on foot. "Ferdinand II used to declare that once, when a visiting pr'.nce desired to take a walk along the river bed. It had to be watered first to lay the dust. Count Ivoinnnones said the Manzanares Manza-nares was the best river in the world to dry washing In. "Once a young woman from Seville i grew faint at a bull fight, and they brought her a glass of water, but she waved it aside and murmured: "'Give it to the Manzanares it needs it more than, I.'" Buffalo I Courier. |