The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-10

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functions. While alta gathering one evening
q prig said to him, Mr. Foote what would you
give to be as young as Il? Without turning
his head Foote answered, would be content
to be as foolish People used to demand an
exhibition Of his cleverness. lady once
asked him to make pun using as his subject
the King. He told her that the King was no
subject, and she relapsed into silence. He also
told an opera-singer who rehearsed for him
that she could make her next appearance
when the public had forgotten her first. Foote
himself seldom smiled at his own jokes, but
laughed uproariously at those of others.
This is good quality to possess.
"Hook was born few years after Foote'S
death, and has been one of the few men able
to fill his place in the particular vein of humor
in which they both excelled party of
laborers were sinking well one day when
Hook happened to pass and inquired what
| they were about. Boring for water was the
reply. Water is always bore, said Hook. He
was once asked to write something about the
| death of the King and Queen of the Sandwich
Islands. His production read as follows:
Waiter, two sandwiches cried Death,
| And their wild Maiesties resigned their breath.
ellis short verse was always pointed and gen.
orally impromptu. Of Lord Broughsm he
| wrote:
Brougham on his tombstone would have writ:
Here lies the enemy of Pitt
And half the line at least applies,
For every one admits 'he lies
"a man named Hatchet invited him to dinner
one day and prefaced his invitation with the
| statement that he would not, perhaps be able
to set up such sumptuous meal as Tom Moore
| had offered Hook the day before, to which
| Hook replied that he expected nothing from a
Hatchet but chop. He was walking with
| friend in the days when Warren's backing
was advertised all over the fences. In one
place the announcement merely ran, Try War
ren's B I see,' said Hook, the rest is
lacking.''
| Those who had listened to Mr. McEnernev re-
| count these bits of wit were conyulsed with
| laughter, and during the lull which followed
everybody was reminded of something good
Mentioning the habit some people have of
noting events and incidents of every day life
in regularly kept pocket journal, joseph D.
Redd1ng spoke of recent visit to Lebanon. in
Southwestern Missouri, and of professional
interview he there had with a courtly old resi-
dent.
81 wanted to know said Mr.. Reddinp
about something that occurred in 1867. being
sure that Mr.. Smith, will call him, could give
me the information if his memory was clear
One of the first questions I asked, after was
welcomed to his old-fashioned hospitable home
was: where were you February 10, 1872
Where was February 10, 1872 he repeated,
and then, going to another apartment, brought
forth an old pocket memorandum marked
1867, and after studying it closely for awhile,
replied: February 10, 1867. Paid 60 cents
for breakfast at Jersey City, That old gentle
man." continued Mr.. Redding, "has noted
down from day to day everything that has
happened in his life"
cit is strange" said R. NJ. Delmas, a listener
to Mr.. ReGding's narrative, "that many promi-
nent men of the old school kept such record
of events. You will find Thomas Jefferson did,
and continued the habit after he was chosen
President He records in his diary: peas,
first Of the season, in the Washington market
to-day Just imagine the President of the
United States solemnly noting down the first
appearance of garden truck in marketW
Acknowledgement Barrett has one important
duty to perform, and no matter how fairly and
conscientiously he may perform it he will gets
"roast" from some companies of the National
Guard. General Barrett came down from
Sacramento yesterday, and was busy all day in
efforts to get the United States ship Olympia
away from Mare Island in time to allow the
Naval Reserve to visit Santa Cruz before the
carnival closes. Concerning annual muster
and encampments he said: al shall attend all
the encampments. and as far as possible study
the worth of each company. The law author
ICES only sixty infantry companies, and, as
sixtyeight now exist, eight must be mustered
out. / shall visit the camps of the Second
Infantry at Vallejo, the Fifth Infantry at Peta-
luna and the Second Artillery at Ukiah.'
When asked if there had been any thought of
mastering out one entire regiment to bring the
| number of companies down to the limit he
said the subject in that form had not been dis
cussed. When the order comes for eight COM
panies to be mustered out the advantageous
will hear eight prolonged roars and he will
not mistake the noise for the applause of lis
fellow-citiZens.
In cage in front of house on Post street
near Grant avenue, there is q parrot that is a
wonderful talker, and not only a wonderful
talker but close observer. He chooses his
phrases and repeats them whenever he feels in
the humor. One of his selections is the "good-
by at the door" between two women, and he
seems not to have allowed a word of the usual
form of bidding good-by to have escaped him.
for when he talks he delivers himself as fol.
lows: "Good-by." ''Well, good-by" "Can
again." ''No; you call first" "Good-by."
"Good-by.'' "Dont forget; good-by" "Let me
see-never mind; good-by." 'Be sure and call
again; good-by." And the wise bird winks his
other eye and adds. "Good-by."