The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-03

number OF carved stone seats from the
Roman senate. One is contested seat
from that body. 1t it still in good state
OF preservation. The decorations on the
ceilings are very beautiful. They were
/ painted by an artist who had no palate.
In Ireland met an artist with cork
arm. He also had two cork legs. He had
cork sole He was born in Cork He
! also had long, outrageous whiskers.
thoughtlessly irritated him by asking
him If could have some seed whiskers
from him next season to SOW with my
blue grass. The Duke of Deyonshire does
not care much for humor, but when he
does he likes his jokes as he does his
game-a little overdue. A joke at 80, 60
or 80 days seems to give him the keenest
delight.
Elvira, North Adams, Mass. asks il
people are really buried in Westminster
Abbey. Yes, Elvira, great many of
them indeed. attended divine worship
there once and found that whole fam
fly had been buried in my pew. They
combine economy with grief in this way,
1t is said, and pave the church with
gravestones, thus, as a friend of mine
once said, virtually killing two birds
with one STONE
Some of these epitaphs are interesting
reading. and especially those Of the no.
bility. Many kind things have been said
by both press and people regarding my
lying, but when read these epitaphs on
the nobility saw at once that had
been very much overestimated man.
There is no place where cemetery
room is so valuable perhaps as in West
minister Abbey unless it be in the cata-
combs Of Rome, where the bones of those
who have passed on to spirit life are
used for decorative work. In all sorts of
designs one sees this odd material ar
ranged like huge flowers and vines,
trees, and SO forth. They are used, too,
in designs for frames, among other
things. Vertebre and phalanges are used
TO make the molding of the frame, while
the larger bones are used TO represent
vines or palms, etc. A cabinet photo
graph or large crayon portrait Of his
wife's mother. framed in reveres Of the
same, must be a great comfort to the
Roman son-in-law.
Georgiana L. asks il the Scotchman
at home is SO slow in grasping the point
of joke as he is reported to be. / can
hardly say in general way, but some
times l have thought there were in
stances Of that kind. In Glasgow once 1
saw milkman going by early in the
morning. From my fifth story window
hailed him and asked IL he had milk
in his wagon. He turned about, and, care
fully locating my window in his mind,
assembled the five flights with his largest
can. Then he tried TO force me to take
some Of his goods Just because had ask
ed him simply whether he had milk in
his can or not. Many of them surely are
a very prosaic and wholly unimagina-
tive people.
Montclair Nesbitt asks if q the use of
the umbrella in the British isles is more
general than in this country; (2) also
about pronunciation of American names
by BritonS
(l) Yes, it is, most assuredly. If you
see two men walking together in Lon
don, one with an umbrella and one with
out, you may be almost certain that the
man with the umbrella is an English
man and the other an American, but IN
few moments the whole thing NAV be
entirely reversed if the American gets
acquainted with the Briton.
The Englishman, said friend Of
mine once. fuses his umbrella for ev-
erything almost. II is difficult 10 imagine
any of the affairs Of life into which the
umbrella does not enter He uses it to
walk with and TO point out things with.
he uses IL TO examine other things with
10 call attention 10 fight with; in max
Ing and breaking friendships He nudses
his friend with il 10 punctuate joke.
examines his friend g condition when i'll
BY means Of il, and after death inyesti-
gates the cause Of death Then az the
grave De uses j: to turn the last sod.
(2) Regarding the pronunciation Of
American names by those who have not
been IN America, ] m1st say that il is
one Of the moet ENJOYABLE features Of
foreign travel To hear Q citizen Of
Glasgow or Manchester struggle with
such name SIS Chicago or Michigan or
Connecticut is equal 20 . summer in the
Holy Land for real enjoyment When
asked which regarded as the most Pc
eunar American name. and ] answered