Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-03-15

poscoe Conkling generally gets oua
eaa. in drawing room, ana ne gets all
sne newspapers he can buy. reads them
ND throws them all over the drawing
snor in mass. besides he always haa
royt,napteau full OF Law papers, which
81 strews all over every scat in tho
dssvinp-room. ConklinR Is very vain
..sveler. and wants everybody in the
20 look at him. Now there's BIaine.
e. inst the opposite; he always buys
~. ~ mole drawing room and shuts him-
VIZ mn ard is a very modest, retiring
s.avsleY. But Grant is qnser old fell
NO When he was President of the
fTn;tsd States he nearly always travelled
~ snscial car, but now since he has
Is.orae q private citiz II. he travels Just
sho,,t the same as ordinary folks. You
IN alxays find Grant in tbs rear end
ostbe ctr in the smoking department.
nth a cigar in his raouth, and there he
80 with hand on eita0r arm OF the
shs;r and smokes and smokes, thor
o,ohIv obliyious of everybody in the
c,s He never looks at any one; some
t;mcs he will look out of the window
for hours; when he not doing tha. he's
oiancing over a newspaper. Hes indif-
ssrant 70 everything that's going on.
Wbv IL the train he Is in stops on the
,oad in tbs open country for some min-
ntas h, never moves, never inquiries
that's the matter, but sits and smokes
s.oIidly till the train starts, while all
the other passengers put their heads out
of the windows or get OF the train TO
sse What has gone wrong.
Jrcnember trip to Chicago Grant
made in my Car some tina ago. His
seat was directly behind lady who WAS
travelling aIona-and who, by the by,
knew very little about travelling. She
had her window op for some time and
Il was pretty chilly, besides the black
emoke poured into the car. l watched
Grant for little while. and saw he
vas ANNOYED at ths smoke and the
chilly breeze that blew right over him.
Presently he got up, and leaningOver
the lady's shoulder put his hand on the
catch and let tho window sash down.
The little woman gave an involuntary
start and turned round fiercely, but
Grant never noticed her and dropped
back into his chair. After while the
little lady hoisted the window again and
some of the passengers who had seen
the affair smiled at one another. Then
the little woman beckOned to me and
said: Conductor, who is that hog
back Of ne ?"
"Thst's General Or mt" said l.
"Oh," said the little woman, and she
dropped the window Immediately.
Grant heard the question, but never let
on, and went on reading his paper as II
nothing had happened.
But Oscar Wilde took the cake. He
was more bother than all the women
who ever rode on railroad car. He
had an ides that he was the greatest.
man that America had ever seen, and he
put on more airs than if he had been
the Car of Russia, the Prince of Spain
and the Emperor Of Germany ali in one.
Would you believe il? He paid the por-
ter of the sleeping car to tell people Mt
the stations along the line wherever the
train stopped that Oscar Wilde was In
the car. He WAS the vainest, most con-
ceited mule | ever saw. He wouldn't
drink water out of the glass ut the cool
or, but slipped it out of u silver and gold
mug he carried with him. and he'd sit
with the tips OF his fingers pressed to-
gether, and look up Mt tbs roof OF the
car as il he was about to offer up
prayer.
Herbert Spencer was tho most restless
Erav sler ever saw, and Bob Ingersoil
il the best. When Ingersoil enters II
oar to go on. n journey the first thing he
does is to hang up his big slouch hat.
then be commences to make himself
aud by the time the train
starts he Just acts as il he was at home
in his study. II there's no one on the
train that he knows, it don't take him
long to strike up an acquaintance, and
seems glad to know him.
He's very july and very liberal
traveller, smokes nearly all the time
on the cars and always carries a bundle
Of choice cigars with him. l remember
one night there was q freight wreck,
and our train had to lay up for thres or
four hours. It WAS u terrible night. the
wind blew hurricane, and the rain
came down in torrents. Colonel Inger-
s,ll was one Of the passengers. Every
body got tired; nobody could get any
body to talk with him. At last little
who was travelling through
America sight seeing. learned who In
Rsrsoll was, and he tackled him then
and there. Iugersoll vas just in the
humor, and in less than ten minutes
everybody in the car crowded around
him and listened to him for over two
hours, and tho passengers seemed 30
pleas cd and entertained that they for
got all about the night and the accident.
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