The Archive · 1900

Bismarck in Paris

The streets of Paris already Levin to show signs of the coming World's Fair. Foreigiers of all kinds, shapes, and sizes can be "spotted" on all lands. A Chinese now attracts little attention, and yesterday I was confronted on un office staircase by a Malay. Still more remarkable, in another sense, was a scrap of conver: tion overheard on an omnibus. Tye men—they spoke English, but their nationality was uncertain—were gazing at the Elysé-, and one asked: ' Where does Bismarck live?" The other turned the matter over in his mind for some seconds and then replied: "I think Bismarck was a German, Perhaps you mean the President of the Republic,

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