The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-02-06
Stories of Famous Folk.

Mrs. Kelley, the veteran English ac-
tress. tells an anecdote OF young actress
who, IN the play, is a boy She IS taken
before Judge, who asks. sternly: Now,
where are your. accomplicesg And the
young actress. by g happy thought, i'm
proved on the author and answered, IN
articles: IT don't wear any. They keep
up without
In conversation with Lord Normany
French lady once made the oft-repeated
assertion that her countrynen were the
politest people in Europe. and cappd all
her arguments by saying: You admit
il yourselves" Exactly. was his lord
ships prompt reply. with diplomatic
bow; that is our politeness
When Renaud first went as senator
| TO Paris he engaged a room at hotel
and paid a months rent-one hundred and
| fifty francs-in advance. The proprietor
| asked II he would have receipt. 1t Is
not necessary" replied Renaud: God has
witnessed the payment DO you believe
| in God?" sneered the host Most aSsur-
| edly," replied Renaud; don't you? Not
1, monsieur" All" said the senator, i
will take a receipt, If you please.
This story of the late Lewis Carroll
| is from a London exchange: Having
been invited to children's party, 1t oc-
CURED to him that a pleasant sensation
|
on all fours. Unfortunately he mistook
the number of the house. but did not dis
cover his error until. warned by strange
| silence instead of the peals OF laughter
| he expected, he loked up from the floor
1 and was Mortified to find himself IN the
midst of party of adult strangers
1T may require as much imagination
| to draw pleasure out of an unspent dol
lar as it does 10 get 1t from an unsmelt
| flower. or any of the unextsting realities
that yoets deal in" says II. G. Chapman
in the January Atlantic. Many Ia
borious and escetic flnancier must live In
a world of Imagination. commercial
dream, as little tangible as that or the
poet My food and lodging are all that
| get for my wealth. said the elder
Rothschild. He was mistaken; he forgot
his dream OF wealth.
| A member of the house went to Speaker
Reed the other day and said that he hac
been selected by his delegation to deliver
q eulogy on a deceased member. Il die
not know the member very WELL" remark
ed the congressman, "and so l though
l would ask you what l should say
Well" said Mr.. Reed, with his inimita
BILE drawl, SAY anything except TIT
truth"
The mouths" of NJ Theirs, Moltke
Bismarck, of the Emperor Napoleon, TIL
Expresses Augusta, Eugene. Frederick
and their children will figure in the Ev
ans collection of wax models. Z
Partisan correspondent adds: II wonse
whether that OF Nine. x, a once famou
Russian beauty, is in the lot. This lad.
was famous for the length and sumptu
osity of her trains. She was also LAWS!
| of her smiles One evening. at SOM
grand reception. l was gazing at her a
Comte Horace de Choiseul led he
through a suite of salons DR.. Evan
| came up to me. We talked about IN
sumptuous train. He then asked, VIVA
do you think of her teeth?" They Ugh
UP her face like sunbeams: they eclips
even the pearls of Nine de Rothschild'
necklace" 1T was who provided them.
said the Doctor; mo, I'm not joking.
but surely they are too transparent {
be of composition?" They are not of ar
tificial stuff 1 chose teeth from tn
mouths of twelve Brittany girls to max
the set" why twelve?" Because III
twelve had the proper number of fault
less teeth. Besides, Nine K. is supersti
tiously orthodox. She wanted her teet
to be a reminder of the twelve apostles
To please her. 1 inserted bit of the tru
cross in the gold setting" rs not Rus
sian superstition absurd" Eyes. but no
thing to quarrel with, if the relics ar
duly considered in the bill"