July 12 Saturday – Sam’s article, “The Shah Calls Upon the Queen,” printed in the New York Herald was reprinted in the Cleveland Herald.

After a day’s rest the Shah went to Windsor Castle and called upon the Queen. What that suggests to the reader’s mind is this: That the Shah took a hand satchel and an umbrella, called a cab and said he wanted to get to the Paddington station; that when he arrived there the driver charged him sixpence too much, and he paid it rather than have trouble; that he tried now to buy a ticket, and was answered by a ticket seller as surly as a hotel clerk that he was not selling tickets for that train yet; that he finally got his ticket and was beguiled of his satchel by a railway porter at once, who put it in a first-class carriage and got a sixpence, which the company forbade him to receive; that presently when the guard (or conductor) of the train came along the Shah slipped a shilling into his hand and said he wanted to smoke, and straightway the guard signified that it was all right; that when the Shah arrived at Windsor Castle he rung the bell… [Fatout, MT Speaks 84]. Note: There’s more, of course.