EXTRAORDINARY BURIAL STORY.
A peculiar telegraphic correspondence (according to the Christian Age) was recontly carried on between the capitals of Saxony, Bohemia, and Eussia. Somcone in Dresden had a maiden aunt who taken sick, and died in a hospital at Prague while on her way to Vienno. The nephew was notified, and he telegraphed to the Prague hospital authorities to send the body to Dresden, for entombment in the family vault. When the coffin arrived and was opened, it was found to contain, not the body of the aunt, but that of a uniformed and bedizened Euseian general. Immediately the nephew telegraphed to Prague: "No dead aunt, but Eussian general. Where dead aunt ? "From Prague came the reply : "If dead aunt not arrived, then Petersburg." The next telegram went to the railway authorities at St Petersburg, and read :—"What do with Eussian general ? Where is dead aunt?" And from St Petersburg was received the reply:— "Bury general in all silence. Aunt jast buried here with highest military honors."
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 28 February 1901, Page 4
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168EXTRAORDINARY BURIAL STORY. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 28 February 1901, Page 4
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