THE CZAR'S PRIVATE NEWSPAPER.
The nervous and Irritable state of the Czir since the recant attempts upon hia life has reached auch a degree that m his presence they must not even be alluded to, and m order to obey his wißhea m this reßpect the very newspapars he reads have to be specially prepared He receives at present no other papers bat those cxproßEoly printed for him ; the verles penny magazines of old, containing at best a few inoffensive despatches, tha reet being made ap of society gossip and the theatrical notes, with at beet a leaderette or two thrown In, -recounting the blessings of hla autocratic government, without an qver-strlct adherence to troth m their enumeration. The editor of this special sheet ; to wbioh the Czar la the only subscriber, and which appears m a ■ingle number, saw no harm m inserting the reports of the foßtivlttsa on the occasion of Emperor William's ninetieth birthday anniversary which caused the Czir to exclaim Badly : " I shall never live to reach four-score years and ten, and have the benediction of millions of of my subjects showered on my head I"
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1647, 27 August 1887, Page 2
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190THE CZAR'S PRIVATE NEWSPAPER. Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1647, 27 August 1887, Page 2
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