The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-04-05
MAI. POND FORGOT.
ST. Edwin Arnold Nearly Spoiled
Voice in consequences.

S:r Edwin Arnold Nearly Spoiled His
Voice in Consequence.
Sir Edwin Arnold has been talking
about his recent tour in America. He
tells this funny story:
Maj. Pond, my agent, was very often
him once if he heard everything l said,
because l think lecturers Conscientious
ness should not allow the audience to
miss a syllable. At my request he went
to the very back of the pit, and it was
arranged that if he missed a single word
he should raise his handkerchief to his
nose. )! was tired that night, and toward
saw my major lift his handkerchief. |
put on steam. Soon afterward l came
to a very critical point. and once again
he raised his handkerchief to his nose,
and kept it there. That proceeding as
blast. For the second time opened the
steam valve, and did my utmo st. An
other interesting passage remained, and
as approached it, again the handker-
chief went to the majors nose. l could
do no more, and with Il lamentable sense
of failure, I finished, dismally, thinking
to the major, appearing quite disheart-
ened. that you did not hear me-
"Not hear you? l heard every syl-
table, he replied.
Why the deuce did you put up your
handkerchief? 1 asked.
81 forgot all about it, was his answer
oh, 1 am so sorry! Fact is, I've a cold
in my head-pray pardon me-
"YOu have nearly killed me- l re-
torted. London Weekly Telegraph.
Getting Up in the World.
There is no disgrace in getting up in
the world, provided one gets up honestly,
oti inn 1nI hn +l,o
other way. The self-made man is at 60
the proud man. He looks back and
gloats over the past. Ex-Mayor Gilroy
was Harry Genet's valet: Abraham s.
Hewitt was a plodding tutor till he mar
ried Edward Cooper $ sister; Coils P.
in San Francisco for his board and
clothes; Robert w. Taller sold whisky;
Marcus Daily was "born in Jer-rsy City
in Il wagon, an worked for-r two dol
lar-r wake" Robert Bonner was a
typesetter; Hammerstei in sold cheap ci-
gars and invented a cigar roller, which
he sold for sou, 900; Tamagno drove a
in Vienna, and made great Juror here
by the crack of his whip, an extraordi-
nary artistic performance WHICH the
Coaching club has never mastered; Cam
panini was Il blacksmith; Henry T.. Alb
hey was Il bartender; Maurice Grau was
an opera DOuHe manager; maurice Stra-
kosch sold librettos; Lillian Russell was
variety songstress; Phillip Dwyer was
Il butcher; John A. Morris was a lottery
man; David Gideon was q gambler; Ma
SIM, the greatest of living tenors, with
an apology to Jean de Reszke. was a
shoemaker in Faenza; Nicolini was Il res
taurant keeper; Louis Harrison was a
call boy in theater i'll San Francisco;
Sherry was waiter in the Brunswick;
I,iccadonna was a waiter The is now
Chevalier, having been decorated for
giving Guzman Blanco good dinner);
Harry Miner was drug clerk; Augustin
DAILY was Il reporter; Cleveland was a
pinochle fiend: Croker was a prize fight
Kelly was a bartender; A. J. Cassatt
was surveyor; Edison was newsboy;
Ira Bride was bootblack; Maurel was a
hotelkeeper. And so on to the end of
the chapter.-New York Press.