Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-02-02

the audience, except John Randolph Tucker,
of Virginia, and his wife, who were sitting
IN the front row. They got up and walked
out down the long aisle and Douglass waited
until they had gone. After this very awk-
ward pause he rose and said in evident en-
barrassment that he was glad to be able to
express his qualification, and ''in accordance
Win the suggestion which has been made
would move vote of thanks to
Mr.. Arnold" Arnold writhed perceptibly at
this. The audience writhed sympathetically
But Chandler was not through. Fellow cit
lLens," ne SAID, bounding forward again.
you have heard the motion. Those in favor
Will please rise" But he got no further, for
everybody rose and went home. How would
description of that performance such as
Arnold could write read? 1t seems at once
Incredible and lneXpllcable that a member of
the Cabinet should have so demeaned himself
ana lnsulted ms guest. But it is true, and
Chambers explanation the next day when he
was asked about it was, "Oh, that English
man put on so many airs / thought / would
yust take MN uOWn peg. lie did not seem
TO see that he had taken himself and his coun-
try 'dOwn a peg"
DO You KNOW THAT OLD LUKE POLAND,
of Vermont, the last of the blue swallow-tail
coat and brass button statesmen, retlres from
public life on March 1? 1t is true. Luke is a
wicked old boy, with a good old face. He
looks like an angel and he acts like the devil.
lie is the only swallow tailed member of the
House. There are two-COnger, of Michigan
and Sheffield. of Rhode leland Anthonv's tenn
porary successOr-in the Senate But sheffield
goes out very on, jonathan Chace, now a
member OF the House and the only Quaker in
Congress, having been elected Anthony's sue
cessor. Chace wears fish tail coat. But to
return to old Poland. Most Of the
stories told about him would not bear trans
planting from conversation 10 the columns of
newspaper. But here Is a story which | can
tell you without blushing: When he was a
member OF the House years ago he drank more
than he does now, and IN Consequence had
very red nose. He was showing
friG ,,,f
politicians through the White House one day,
and brought up at last in the east room, which,
Tor wonder, was on that day decOrously
darkened by well disposed window curtains.
Down at the southern end of the big room the
young men discovered a large picture frame
leaning against the wall. "Uncle Luke"
SAID one OF them under a sudden inspiration,
get into the frame and let's see how you'd
look IN Hfe-size portrait" Anxious to
hunOr 1.-The boys" Uncle Luke" complied.
just at that moment a party Of rustics
of the room. keep still, Uncle Luke. keep
STILL" whispered the boys. Uncle Luke"
thought IL less compromising to his dignity TO
stand still in the frame than to get hastily out
IN the presence Of the strangers, so he main
talned the attitude of Roman Senator which
he had assumed at the first and looked very
Senatorial indeed. Meanwhile one of 1.-THE
boys" approached the countryman, who had
just come in with his wife and children, and
asked, with the air of a professional
gulde, whether they had yet seen
I5lO ~ LoO0sV picture Ol george W dShlngIOns Jhe
Father, &c, etc. The cOuntryman had not.
We'll, here 1t was at the southern end of the
room. So saying, he led them before the
frame IN which Poland stood. THAT is
George Washington" said the bad boy in an
aWed tone. The cOuntryman, his wife and
his children looked at George" with open
mouths, while Poland, who saw that the boys
had caught him, turned redder and redder.
At last after a silence which seemed to
Roland as long as a summer day, the honest
farmer turned to his wife and said IN a loud
confidential whisper: "Well. Mary, | never
DelieYed the stories about George before, but
just look at that nose" THE bows" shaking
with lll-concealed laughter, hurried the rus
tics INTO the next room, and then hurried back
TO hnd Uncle Luke IN a towering rage.
BROWN-FLOYD.