New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-11-09
DEAN HOLE SPEAKS ON BORES
AN ENTERTAINING LECTURE BY THE
ENGLISH WIT
STORIES ABOUT PEOPLE "wHO NEVER WOULD BE
MISSED" WITH SIDE LIGHTS on IMPosToRs


MISSED" WITH SIDE LIGHTS on IMPosToRs
AND OTHER DIsAGREEABLE PERSONS.
The Rev. DR.. s. Reynolds Hole. Dean of Rochester
Cathedral England. lectured last evening at the
Calvary Baptist Church. In West Fifty-seventh-st..
before audience that was numerous and extreme
ly well disposed toward him. 1t needed no prompt
! ing to give the Dean the cordial reception he met.
| His subject "Impostors Bores and Other Dis
agreeable People"
That the frierd OF Thackeray and OF the wits OF
| Punch should choose such a subject only
natural. That the people in the Deans three cate
gories should revive memories o! the Book of
Snobs'' inevitable. 81 do not know much about
| American bores' said the lecturer las have not
met any here yet But We have a large supply
| in Europe. They the mosquitoes and the gnats
OF society. and must be treated as such Oh the
bores. | would as soon NEE, a buffalo in a blizzard
as one OF them
There Is the bore who talks to you about family
quarrels. about his motherin-law some other sub
| ject In which you equally uninterested one OF
| them wrote 10 time ago. stating That ne
had heard that many years ago the Danes stretched
the skins Of their dead the Cathedral doors, and
| asked for some Information the subject. re-
Piled that too much occupied with the bodies
and souls of Christians To give much thought 10 'he
epidermis of the early Danes. Another wrote TO me
that man in Rochester owed him money. anu
whether could not collect 1t for him. rephed 'hat
l was a Dean. not dun. O-aughter)
among the variety of bores Is the man VINO mas
nothing to do and won't let you do anything IL he
can help IT, / recall the story OF a Sultan VINO hau
a very pompous Nzier and desiring TO ria hlrseH
OF the Vizier sold him in open market for Save
The market was not brisk that day ana the Niz'er
brought only s pence. The Sultan bought MIN III
at this price and thereafter whenever the Nizier De
came pompous the Sultan had only to mention $
pence draw the figure in the ar VIE" '"e
pompous Minister Immediately subsidized
.hA ts cont
ing with Lord So-and- so-he forgets to mention
| rhat he was one of the beaters-or who danced
| with Lady Something de Coveriy-he may nave
touched her hand in the whirl Then theFe Is 'i'e
| bore who Is always grooming about MS health /
recall a story told by the elder Grossinlh wio OH
!nouiring OF one of these bores about MS hedi'h'
| was met with the reply: Between and 0 CLOCK
| this morning was al deaths door AT death
| door replied Grossmlth. well why didn't you go
| inv Qaughter) Then there is the pore VINO III
PRODUCES the lecturer and who hrst hres OH d" MY
fireworks and lets me follow. uaughteTJ Anu "'e
| bore who cuts your magazine with ms hhser' all"
the bore who talks while my wife or my daughter
| &c singing There is also the bore who writes you
| letters and | have many such. He usually wants
an autograph or something OF that kIhd' anu o"S
you that he numbers among his collection the names
Of Sir Walter Scott and Tom Crib the champion"
| of the prize ring and others. d-aughter1
THE stout man woman who plants hnsel Vi
| herself I'm q doorway and won't let you pass Is
another Of this class. ] remember the storF u "
| very stout lady who was riding In the railway anu
| inquired OF gentleman who was seated h'M ~
her if the next station was not Soane,sl, ,l,n
told that IL was the lady requested 'he Eril'e'i.
| 20 .ssist her TO alight when the station was
reached 4 have been riding around I.9nro t ,
| When asked how this had happened She san san
Well YOU that am very stout ana am Am ,am
| PEELED to get of backward ENeiy tiime t. az
| tempted this guard would give me shoNe phc pa, n
| bafOr |
Among the mpostors there are some very anus
| inc and some certainly clever. one OF ihes'. 70
Gently went into prominent Jewelry s'ofr III l-,
don and asked the price OF some % We mos 80
| diamonds Whilc he was handling them an ON
poyc who so concealed a. 10 De hn' 49,, 10 S',
| all that going on without bens ssri n,i,,i
| rotced that the supposed cIstCmer haa snpp''
-four Of the most valuable tanonIS ihto ms &
| Gas given in charge He told 10 be- careful ~
| undomb;ed evidence The policeman .nacumei his
prisoner and both started IN CAP III i
| to prosecute neither policeman nor prisoner Wa
10 be The supposed po"ce nmgs,e @np '"'
Among all the impostors. one o, ne woTs' y,
the man who wants to apPsar 70 De IN a kndness
| is the woman who wants to appear mannsh Shr
| WAYS plavs the man To these would say hat a
! woman meyer looks so beautiful as vnen shc "l'-
pears as God intended her to appear-.n her woman
rne worst OF all mpos'ors IS the RELIGION, i'm,
postor ! have no regard fox man VINO thlnEs
he IS pous when he is only bous. lie j. ne N ~
| who asks me in the middle " N: dinner u ! mn
| saved Ii Is marvellous what harm T. zone by these
| people who represent religion as I'm snckcpth am
| .shas and the good done by those VINO MAKE y
the most beautiful thing IN the world. thihS Wh
causes us love life and lose orr Tear OF i'atl
| The tracts which scattered broad isi also u y
long to the religious impOsiOr class Incy zen OF
| the boy who went TO see Jack Shepard ana wa
| ,hereupon seized with a violent desire TO be nihl
| Gorer and subsequently, hanged on the otn y
| hand they tell the touching tale OF piizr-hehi"
| who wrote to the minister after listening u" NJ
| revival lecture that he Mas 30 impressed tnat ne
had lust disposed II his liquor saloon ana deslfr
| 10 teach one OF the Sunday school classes. II"
| UsIon does not need this rubbish ,
In closing his lecture Dean Hole redh some oi ~
| poems which received with much favor bS
| the audience. ., i, a.,
| assembly rooms Of the church. at which many
| OF those present met the Dean. Among tnose OF
| The Reception Committee were Bishop william
| Doane Of Albany; the Rev. Drs. Robert ; MAC
| Arthur and David H. Greer. Abram :. lieWlt
| William {, Whitney Or Wendell &. Phillips
| Louis G. Tiffany c. G.. Shayne. Richard NJ Hunt
| 7 pi.,uou, Norran and John Rockefeller.