The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-24

London. N-y Baron rtrdnaud De
[ Eo-lschli mas taken To the writing OF
books His lrs; book. The Personal Char
2ct5risri.s o. French History he tells us.
/ s. merely An enleavcr TO present. cheiay
Through the medium o. their spoken re-
I Plies. an idea. however superficial of some
/ OF The salient characteristics OF some OF
1 tho notable actors IN the drama OF Frea IN
history" IL is pleasant reading The ba-
ron's example might well Oe followed by
men who publish volumes OF personal re-
miniscences of eminent people whom they
| nave met and give US anecdotes which are
/ interesting enough if heard from the Fps
| of the celebrity himself. but become tire
some in cold print. AS the baron was not
/ personally acquainted with Henry ".
/ Louis NV. Rcheleiu. Mazarin ana other
I French immorJals. he has collected all
/ The anecdotes to be found in remote hooks
/ Of history and put them together. Some Of
/ the s,or-es have been told aga.n and again.
/ Some have not.
There are "a number about Henry L. the
most popular Of French kings. once while
on a journey. Henry diucl at "a small vii
I lsse lie asked 10 have ihe mosc nte,ii-
sent man IN the village Drought. 10 nina
Inc rustic came and stood On The other
/ side of the table from his majesty.
/ w nat IS your Iamer' asked heury.
sire, 1 am called Gaillari.'
what is The difference between Gail
/ i2r5 "a Jolly teLCw) and Faillarl "a rIko) 90
sire said the rustic, There Is but a
/ table between the two
/ "Nentre Saint Grisr' cried the king.
/ lau2 hing, = never thought TO tind so great
VII i'm 50 small a Village"
There is no new anecdote about Rich
eNeu. although there are many old ones
/ So We pass trom him to NIazarin who one
1 day, wnen he had been overwhelmed with
I petitions, said he would receive a petit
/ JuOncr VINO was relative of the govern
/ or OF the Bastile, provided he uttered only
Two words. 1t happened TO be a cold
/ day when the petitioner entered Mazdrln
apartments. says the baron. "A large
/ fire blazed on the hearth. Looking at il,
/ he uttered the two words: Cold; Hun
Fire! Breadr Mazarin answered,
/ sion"
/ The baron seems to have found a mine
/ in The re gn of Louis Nv. Alexis Piron,
! native Of Dion. was one OF the wits at
I the court of Louis Ky. IL was he who
/ wrote his own cp.taph. Here lies Piron,
/ who was nothng-not even an Academi-
! cilni"
/ One night at the play P.ron kept look
/ ing hard at his nel6hbor, lady of ques-
/ tl9nabie reputation. She suddenly said,
/ Have you regarded me long enough to
/ watch he answered, Madame, I look at
( you, but / do not regard YOU once,
/ however, he caught a Tartar. He was
J asked a party if he could tell the diff
] ference between woman and "a mirror.
Z a woman he replied, talks without
lE
| ing" Upon this lady asked: can you
/ now, Nj Piron, tell me the difference
/ between a man and mirror "A mir
ror is always polished, while a mans man
We get a good idea Of what Marie An
/ to nette suffered from the stringent rules
/ court in hey time. She christened one Of
/ her monitors the Countess de Noailles
Madame Etiquette" One day, when hens. she
! grounds, she cried:
go and fetch Mime. de Ncailles, Sne
! will tcIl ms what is prescribed for The
/ oitear of France when sha fans off a
S9Ti-o,.'''
We Sa, also bet+er anprec.ate the Abbe
,t,SrC - ~ 80 y "a, Xxx IL ne sesa,,, i,,
-. ~ aIir'be3T Orca vybar Mira =,
&C obo1.+i ~ anevter some briiiiant
| $500 10 ola evci4edl,, ~ NTa,irv.
'l.sT sIoU rov drive V6u fnt9 a vicious
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as Is because YOU wish us to meet?"
said me abbe
- lIo-,T1- ie a'++rihitod the origin of the
farooi,s nicrase s'sans culoettess'' though
in = diffe~erT sense from that which the
~ o. t'ttti- -, ! y, ,,,,11tar Tbe ,,,or,er, IN
~ geiIar7t yVe~a drovninr his speech
Srstb 2bair butbub He turned 70 the pres-
i1en- ana eai5. "Sir please silence these
sors cnio+fss'f'
I3rof i ory1Troso has ncv, taken tn dfag-
nosing me mental condition of great men
81 'a9 2'5 55at Bante was nothing otber
man a i,inatic lie exDa.t.ates on Dante's
- cibiittv his inorjinafe vanitv and vio-
iar,+ ~ ,t565to~ But The attempf to Drove
Dante a 5unatic Is not new. Br Durand
FardeI freedman, long ago settled
pantois irsa,iry ~ His own ssfisfacfion
in a tiresome book. He said that Dante
was a fir subject for a straitjacket
William Archer the dramatic critic. is
greatly relieved. He is relieved to hear
maj Beerbohrn Tree is to produce Henry
W. in opDosition 10 the forthcoming
s.Henrv IV'' of Miss Rehan The process
nv which Mr.. Archer has relieved him self
Is a long omen letter to Mr.. Tree in which
he tells MI. Tree 10 produce "Tienry w.
according 10 Mr.. Archer's idea of it and
receive The everlasting gratitude Of all
true lovers Of Shakespeare Mr.. Archer al
also pays his respects TO Mr.. DAILY. If Mr..
Daly isn't hurt after reading Mr. Archers
letter H is because Mr.. DAILY has the hide
of a crocodile. At one moment Mr. Arcn-
or weeps bitter tears over the unregener-
ate Mr. Daiv. at the next he CRATES his
teeth mutters curse words and gallops
down on Mr.. DAILY at full tilt
Prince Henry, who plays Achilles to Hot
spurs Hector. says that Archer embodes
for all times Shakespeare idea of martial
virility. The thought Of Prince Hal being
interpreted by an actress whose chief at
traction is her wealth of womanhoOd, is