Mr Gladstone is engaged' upon a new Homeric work, . < ; ---: ' Lqrd Hamilton has urged the appoint* ment of a Minister of Public Instruction. Bismarck was recently .called upon by a Russian lady, who asked him for his autograph. • After the Chancellor had complied with her request she said to him : "Prince, may I ask. your/ photograph for a ; noble purpose •?" : '• Certainl," he replied, " but what is it ?" : >M My brother ' has been exiled to Siberia;; ;let me write an application for his^atdbn over your name, and the Czar will grant it." Bis.marck consented, and Alexander 11. informed him, when at Berlin recently, that the pardon had been granted.
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Grey River Argus, Volume XV, Issue 1924, 6 October 1874, Page 2
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