| Show it Is a curious fact that the coronation of the emperor of russia Is thought necessary because that country has more than t ten on thousand miles of asiatic frontage and the pageant Is essential os to hold the oriental imagination and conscience to the crown TI there 1 ere have bare been twenty of these coro 1111 dolis including the last but probably the most striking was that oz of boris in the sixteenth con century tury who during the ceremonial and after the crown was placed upon ills his lead head suddenly astonished everybody by exclaiming 1 I take god to witness th a t there shall be neither beggars nor poor during ray ni reign helgn and shaking liis its coat lie added and I 1 would share it 1 among everybody were it the last coat that I 1 possessed |
