Minister White And Moltke

Senater "VVlnto was presentad to Count Moltke r.t ons of the Court entertainments at A noted staíesinaii, wlio had read a biogrphicftfcketch of the American Minister, which appeared shortly after his appoiutmeut In the Deutsche Rundschau - a Gernvm magazine - performed tho introduction in the following mode: "Count, let me present to yon a gen'tleman from America, who was borti ia Honver, lives in Syracuse, and has founded a unlversity in Ithaca." The Count lookcd very much puzzlcd at this unión of America with so manv classical naines. The minister liasteucil to explain t!te geog-raphical miuldlo hy sayinjr that the custom formerly had biieu in America to select names from antiqnity for the man y naw towns coming hito existence, bufc that novv names ot' the héroes of modern times wcro chosen, and tliat in the Kar West of tho Unitod States tliere were al read y places which had been christened MoltUc. The Minister's nest turn of tho matter created a general smilo, in whioh the Count joincd, saying that lic should lüco nothing bettcr tlian lo o to America and visit onc of his ceonvohical uamosakea. ,.