The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-12-06
Charles Wyndham's Scrap-boOk.
From the Boston Transcript. =

Charles Wyndham's Scrap-book,
From the Boston Transcript.
Charles Wyndham, the "Electrit
Light Comedian" as Howard Paul has
christened him, and which appellatior
will stick to him in the United States,
like all popular men, receives vas,
number of letters frome minent and clev'
er people who have made their mark in
literature, science and art. Many of these
are necessarily destroyed, but few are
saved, and his secretary pastes them in
huge scrap.book, At the end of this
formidable volume is division, in which
many of the wits and wags of London
have written sentences, maxims, thought
pended. Here are some of the most
pungent bits:
| By Horace Mayhew-There are two
reasons why we don't trust a man; one
because we don't know him, and the
| other because we do. Promise of mar
rage is like precious china, a. man has
so much to pay for its breakage. There
are very many things which men with
coats worn threadbare dare not say. "
Some sentences by w. S. Gilbert-The
real pale of civilization is the ice pale,
| with a bottle of Dry Monopole in it. I
met Japanese t'other night at the Tray.
eler's club. He had never tasted cham
! payne, and on putting away the third
| tulnbler he squeaked out in his odd ORR.
entail voice, Civilization very good. ]
like civilization"
1t is 40 misfortune for nice young
lady to lose her good name if a nice
young gentleman gives her better one.
"HiC, hec, hoc."-Ihe grammar is
wrong. The hic usually comes after the
| hoe.
What is next to the hearts core of ev.
cry opera singer? An encore.
| The chasm that sometimes swallows
up wit-Sarcasm.
When light-haired mans locks turn
gray he's getting on to fifty. When they
begin to turn black he's getting on to
sixty.
Extract from letter by the late Hen
ry S. Leigh: ''It lis altogether too. alb:
surd to say that man is not perfect.
Who is there who has not met with
many who were perfect strangers, some
who we're perfect rascals and a few who
were perfect FOOLS"
| From poor Author Matthison. author
of the 'Grea5 Divorce Case"- Miss-de'
sires you to engage her for soubrettes,
but fear she is of an uncertain age,
which means her age is quite uncertain
certainly forty, if she is day, But
she is still kittenish and frisky, and
| when made up, resembles an aDtiQuated
hoyden of the ~period of George Nv.
Have talk with her. and observe her
airs and graces. She'd make splendid
character in q comedy"
| Some extracts from Henry j. Byron
"a g,rl at school would like to have two
birthdays every year. When she passes
| thirty she objects to having even one.
| s'The parentage of a lie is the most
difficult of all to trace. It is, indeed, a
clever lie that knows its own father.
"The worst kind of borrower is he
who borrows with the intention Of re-
paying; for you know to moral certain
| ty that be intends to borrow again.
eff England were paradise, still you
would find Engl;shmen grumbling."
From letter" Our friend, Jack
Smale, who is,twentv.one, has married
widow of forty, but she is in admirable
preservation. After the wedding some
Kind female friend informed him that
his wife had: fondly nursed him and
tended him when mere babe. At first
he was disposed to be shocked, but
thinking better of it he quietly observed,
ON revient toujours ses premiers am
ours,' and went off to dine with Sidney
From Kate Stanly, dated Seville,
Spain, 19S1.-"It is an entertainment
to see a Spanish lady of the higher type
Ifuse fan. She knows its mechanism,
| she can finger it we'll, and by the grace
Eof her fan she is an actress. All. the
fan? lis q hope, festival, q promise,
/ a denial, menace, a pardon. 1t blames,
| it praises, it approves, it encourages, it
persuades. It is laughing, ironical. scorn-
full, graceful, charming. You may open
Fit, close it, agitate it, raise it, lower it.
LIT, Way be used to show to advantage
Ebeautiful hands. It may be used for
ieverything-for peace or Tor war, for
tenderness, for gayety, for battle, for re.
| partee, for Interrogation, for malace or
for perfay. Take aim, fire! The mus.
ket kills, the fan wounds"
From Florence Marryat, the novelist
"Be contented with your lot, especially
at an auction.
r ''The darkest hour las rule) is just
before the gas is lighted.
you cannot do without money; you
I;may do without a mother-in-law.
Miners are always civil, for civilty
costs nothing.
"Be satisfied with things as they are;
| take the crust with the crumb. -. ::
| "If you are in public office, be
punctual-at all events in leaving.
| Extract from q letter by the late E. A.
Sothern: "Dear Wyndham: Pink Dom
inoes' very droll and a model of con.
struction. Can you spare me asmall
hfNV So nSnHf Eo1v
shouldn't repeat his own wit, but know
| you like good put pun. I was at a par
ty at Payne's the banker, t. other night
and his wife is certainly superb crea-
ture. Mrs. Bancroft, who was there, di-
rected my attention to her and said
isn't she lovely? She ought to he a
countessl' "Why, certify l replied.
''but as her hubby is a big banker, she
prefers, perhaps. to be q discountess. -
How is that for Dundreary, and before
supper too?' -. FL. e. t 81, =
"A sentence by Lord Beaconstield-
| And what worker is Wyndam! He
has an exceptionally gluttonous appe-
| tite for steady toll. 4 I believe
| in Molliere's maxim, that the '.best the
atrical work is that which pleases the
most Montague Cory laughed
heartily like boy at the Pink Dominoes
and I was q good second. Invent back
TO- the house refreshed, and indulge d
ia a late sitting" s= 5;z.s Z. sig s:.s
Is Joseph Proctor, the acJor, well known
through his performances in Nick 81
j the Woods : first appeared on the stage
il. Boston on November %, 1888, and
his hftieth anniversary is to be ce1ebra.
| ted in that CITY by q sI,ecial hanafik mot.