Omaha daily bee., 1889-02-17
USES HIS RAZOR AS A TONIC
One of the Peculiarities of Chauncey
N. Depew.
LORD sRoueAAM AS A PORTER
Ludicrous Mistake at an English sta
tion-Rubenstein and Van Bulow
-Webster's Test of Intellect
Readable Anecdotes.
A Queer Bracer.

ball. He lay back in his chair, crossed his
legs and stroked his chin meditatively as he
said
~ have given as much time to the subject
of shaving as | have to any other that l eau
recall, including the making of speeches.
Several gentlemen who have devoted the
greater part of their lives to the
ton of colossal fortunes looked up in sur
prise. They had been considering so mt
transactions in stocks to the amount of sew.
cral hundred thousands, and were a little
put out by Mr.. Depew's calm, irfevelant re-
mark.
YES" continued the president of the New
York Central, tits a great subject. l shave
myself every morning the first thing after |
| get out of bed, and it is as good an eye
\ opener as a cocktail. Frequently ] am up
late ut night, and sometimes have only three
or four hours sleep for a number Of days in
| succession. / am brain weary, nerve weary,
tired out. Then it is that the cold steel pass
ing over my face acts like a tonic, an invig-
orator. It's a great thing. My face is ten
der and | have to be very careful in shaving.
A razor gets tired, you know, and a man
should have at least four of them. have
twenty five. | have bought every kind of
| razor that was ever recommended TO me. 1
find that the Swedish razor is the best. You
can't tell the quality of IA razor by the price,
though. One of the best | ever had | bought
for - cents. | paid s. for another and could
use 1t only once.
"Did you ever meet Lord Brougham?n
| asked a New York Star reporter of John
Oakford.
Eyes, was the reply, land under very
singular circumstances. | was escorting
Mrs. Scmple, the daughter of ex-President
Tyler. from London to Liverpool, where she
was going to embark for America. We took
the train at Eustace station. After placing
her in a car 1 left her to look after the lug |
gage, for you know they do not have the adj |
mirable system Of checking baggage in
Europe that we have here. l was in a hurry, |
as | did not like to leave the lady long in a
car all alone, and, entering the room, L saw a
man writing at a desk, whom Thought was
the station master. | said to him: My good
man, | want you to label my luggage, and
am in a great hurry, for there is a lady wait
ing for me- He turned around with a scowl
and rudely ordered me out of the room,
whereupon | naturally became very angry,
and told HIM | should report HIM If he did
not instantly attend to my order. Thereupon
he Jumped up and tried to force me out of
the room. In the midst of the alteration
the station master came along, and began
to complain of the insolent official. The
station master drew me aside, and whispered
that [ had made a dreadful mistake; that
the gentleman was Lord Brougham, who
had gone into the room to write a letter. He
was AT that time an old man, seventy years
old at least. He wore a long brown coat, and
neither looked nor acted like 4 lord"
The proposed Balzac monument gives rise
to an enormous number of anecdotes apro-
pos of the great writer in the French press.
Here is a good one from among them: The
late Baron James Rothschild was always on
excellent terms with Balzac, who dedicated
more than one novel to him. ONCE, when he
was obliged to make a trip to Germany, and
when, as often happened with him, he was
e, a difficulties Ra1Zar went To the i
baron, who, with his usual benevolence, ad-
vanced him the sum OF 5000 francs, giving
him also a lcttcr of recommendation to his
nephew in Vienna. The letter was unsealed,
according to custom. BalZac read it, found
it cold, poor and unworthy Of him, and never
took it to the nephew. Returning to Paris,
he went to see Baron Etothschild. Well
said the latter, shave you seen my nepbewW
Balzac proudly said that he had kept the let
ter. 81 am sorry for you,' said the baron.
Have you got it with you!' YES, parbleu!
here it 49," ''Observe this little hero
glyphic below the signature; it would have
opened a credit of 25, 900 francs for you at
the Vienna firm" Balzac bit his lip and said
nothing more.
The most fiery of pianists and of orches-
trail conductors, DR.. Hans Won Bulow, has
been pointing his baton at his old friend
Rubinstein, to whose ocean Symphony" he
has taken a sudden dislike. After directing
at a rehearsal the six movements Of Rubin
STEMS symphony, which is, indeed, 'vast
and illimitablc" like the ocean, DIR. Won
Bulow, according TO a not infrequent custom
Of his, addressed to the members of the
orchestra some disparaging remarks o the
work they had just been playing. and ended
by saying: "a symphony like this can be
properly dealt with only by a conductor with
long hair" [Dr. Won Bulow wears his hair
short On reading the report of DR.. Won
Bulow's little speech Rubinstein wrote from
st. Petersburg to the paper which had pub
lishcd it, expressing his surprise that in the
midst of his important and numerous occu-
pations the learned doctor should have
found time to measure the length of his
Rubinstein's) hair. He also inquired affec-
tionately after the length of DIR. Won Bulow's
cars; wishing in particular to know whether
they had grown since the evening when,
after hearing RublnStein's opera of Nero
for the first time, he shook the composer
warmly BY the hand and even embraced
him.
A the heel of one of Daniel Webster's
dinners, when only two of his guests re-
mained-one a member of congress from
Tennessee ana the other a member from
Texas "a discussion arose as to which had
the greater intellect. Mr.. Webster poured
the last drop of the last bottle into his own
glass and settled the issue by a declaration
that ''the best test of a mans intellect is the
quantity of wine he can take on and stand
up under it,"
Senator Kenua is exceedingly fond of hunt
ing and fishing and is so proud of the fine
mountains ami beautiful streams of West
Virginia that he has become an expert ANA
teur photographer, and has devoted much Of
his leisure taking views. Not long ago he
conceived the idea of collecting a number of
his handsomest pictures, arranging them in
an album and presenting them to MIR. Cleve-
land. While his work was in progress he
went with Senator Blackburn to call upon
the president, and during the interview the I
subject oil amateur photography tioated up. &
II like scenery-mountain scenery partic.
ularly, " said the president, shut | don't care
for pictures of it, and | don't see how a sen ,
siblc man can 40 wandering around with a !
box on his back in search of mere perishabie :
q
Senator Blackburn agreed fully with the :
president and Senator Kenna changed the :
subject.
When they were fairly out of the. White c
House grounds Kenna said enIphatically: I
'D-n his appreciation of photography. =
He shouldn't have any Of my pictures il he :
was dying for them" |
Nevertheless, a few days later, after the {
from Kentucky had seen the presl- '
dent, there came q good humored message !
from the White House TO MIR, Kenna which
him TO send the album. and now Mr..
will take IL tn his new hnma as a