Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1898-07-07
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YOU not think am right in saying that
woman is always the best judge of
another woman's character" Mad
am" replied Mr.. Evarts, she is not
only the best judge, but also the best
eXecutioner."
The extreme subtlety of Gladstone's
mind was frequent source of amuse-
ment to his foes. During Garibaldi' :
visit to Loadon it was suggested that
richly jointured widow. who was
about much with him, should marry
him. To the objection that he had a
wife living the ready answer was. "Oh,
he must get Gladstone to explain her
away"
King Frederick William the Third
was very spariug of words rs is well
known, but one day he was told there
was at Toplitz where he was then
drinking the waters. a hungarian mag
nate still less talkative than the king.
An opportunity for a meeting was soon
manager. and the following converSa-
) ton took place, the king beginning:
"Bathing?' "Drinkns.' "Soldier:'
L. Il.
king accomplishments"
On one of the islands that make up
the city of New York Csays the sum.
lives a young man. who. though really
a business man of good rcpute. is of
light and airy manner. and somewhat
given to gossip and the spreading of
social news, The war has affected him
patriOticllly, and the other day he
sought advice from friend. (which
ought | to enlist in:" he asked; the
light artillery or the cavalry" The
veteran considered the question seri-
ously, and then spoke. "Dickie," he
said, 81 think you'd do best IN the car
rier-pigeons."
One of the stories that the late James
Payn liked to tell was about what he
called an American duel. wherein two
duelists. with one second. met within
doors and drew lots to decide which
should shoot himself. \ was the I'M
lucky man. and without word he re-
tired into the next apartment to carry
out the purpose of self-dcstructiOn. Il
and the second. both very much moved
by the tragedy of the situation. re-
manned in listening attitudes. At last
the pistol was heard, and they We're
shuddering with emotion and remorse,
when suddenly in rushed the supposed
dead man, triumphantly exclailning:
missed, by heaven
Barry Pain relates that he once sent
the late James Payn series of par
odies for Cornhill. Payne accepted
them; but there was difficulty. One
of them was a parody of I'M author.
y. who was u personal friend Of
Payn's, and very sensitive man, who
would not take the sincerest form of
flattery in the spirit in which it was
offered. Now. it happens that there is
considerable resemblance between
the style Of Y and that of another au-
thor of the same school, y. Payn sug-
gested that Pain should take out KS
name from the title Of the parody, and
substitute that Of the school Of fiction
to which he belonged. Then" he
said, TX will think that it's meant for
y" But" Pain asked, what about
Y+' That's all right" he answered,
"i will know that it's meant for ~"
a gentleman who wished to make
certain inquiries of the late Professor
Tyndall. knowing that the great sci
enlist was to deliver a lecture before
the Royal Society, called ut the lecture
room in the afternoon, expecting to
find Tyndall preparing his apparatus
for the evening address. He was much
surprised to find Mr.. Tyndall engaged
In vaulting on one hand backwards
and forwards over the iron railing
from behind which the lecturer de-
livers his lecture. The visitor sup
posed that Professor Tyndall, being
very hard worked, was glad to take
little exercise whenever and in what
ever way he could. In the course of
the lecture that evening, Professor
Tyndall was reading from notebook,
which he rested on the iron railing in
front of him, when. apparently by ac-
cident, he let the book drop. Without
moments hesitation the professor
placed one hand on the railing, lightly
vaulted over, picked up the book, and
then lightly vaulted back again. The
audience greeted the performance with
loud applause, but the afternoon visitor
comprehcndod how Professor Tyndall
sustained his reputation as an athlete.
The following anecdote is taken
from MANY Memoirs of Many PEG
pie, by Mrs. Simpson, volume of
"reminiscences recently published in
London: At luncheon we talked of
Walter Scott Il was present." said
Lord Aberdeen, when a man asked
him somewhat bluntly which Of the
Waverley novels he preferred, and
after moments silence he answered:
Old Mortality He sometimes car
ricd his attempts at mystery little too
far. l once said something which he
thought implied that l assumed him
TO be the author of the novels. L give
YOU my word of honor he said. that
] know no more about their authorship
than you do The mystery became
very mlschievous as soon as he wrote
history. If he had announced in his
own name his intention to write the
life of Napoleon, information of all
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