A German Personal.
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In our valued exchange, the “Baden-Baden Freie Blatter” of Aug. 16, we find a pleasant reference to Col. Henry Watterson, the distinguished editor of “The Louisville Courier-Journal.” “On the last night,” says the “Freie Blatter,” “to the springs down a man came which was the great statesman from America, and the journalist, Herr Heinrich Watterson. ‘Let me to see the springs,’ said he to the keeper from the place. Then being shown to her, Herr Watterson cried out, ‘She is the most beautiful springs which I have set eyes on already. Will you let me to have some from the water on the side?’”
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