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Show Peculiar Qualities of Spanish River 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 ubmit. "A German said It wus the best river 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 prince desired to take a walk along the river bed, It bad to be watered first to lay the dust. "Count Itomanones said the Munzn-nares Munzn-nares was the best river In the world to dry washing In. "Once a young woman from Seville grew faint at a bullfight, and they brought her a glass of water, but she waved It aside and murmured: "'Give It to the Manzannres; It needs It more than V "Buffalo Courier. |