Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-03-25

storm, Custard, young artist OF great
promise, who was friend Of Hicks.
was laying at Bossincy, wild spot on
the Cornish coast. In the intervals of
his work he kept singing in stcntorian
voice:
Come into the garden. Maud!
One day Hicks. who was an official OF
the county insane asylum, went over to
see him. and was at once recognized by
the owner of the cottage where Custard
lodged.
"Ah. MIR. Hicks" said she, II be glad
you've come for un, poor young man.
thought somebody would be coming for
un."
Did you?" asked Hicks, ever ready
for q humorous situation. rs he very
bad?"
: "Ah. that e be. Mr.. Hicks. Why, he
do stand out there by them rocks, and
lie hOllers out:
Come into the garden, Maud.
Why. there haint no garden, Mr.. Hicks,
for miles around! 4. And then he do say.
I be here by the geate alone. But
there baint no geatc anywhere nigh.
And e. do seem to see black bats Mr..
HICKS, III SiSiu S'a"S'cNS - ~O'''N "
un, MIR. Hicks. that l be-.
HAPPY HITS IN ORATORY.
The writer of a very clever article in
Temple Bar on Happy Hits in Ora
tory" saws that among modern orators
the manifest in his hits has undoubted-
ly been Lord Beaconsfeld, or rather
"Dizzy"-for they belonged to his
Iau -Wh nf her he
was telling the House in maiden
speech that the time would come when
they would hear him, Or likening MN
| listers opposite at the end of the session
| to a range of exhausted volcanoes, or
concentrating himself on having a
solid piece of mahogany between him
| self and the fervid Mr.. Gladstone. Or
describing Sir Robert Peel as the head
Of an organized Hypocrisy or as
having found the Wings bathing and
stolen their clothes. He was always
| the lord of irony. that master-spelr'-
| always too imperturbably cool-cool.
as Chalmers once said. as an 'alge-
braic formula" Among the choice
| "happy hit illustrations given Is the
following:
A bishop once rose to address the
| House of Lords, and began by saying
he intended to divide his speech into II
heads. Lord Durham thereupon got
up and begged leave to interpose for
| few minutes to tell the House an
| anecdote, He was returning home Che
saih few nights before. and passed
ST. Paurs Cathedral just before mid
| night. AS he did 50 there was a
drunken man trying to see the time.
Just then the clock began to
strike the hour and slowly tolled out IL.
The drunken man listened. looked hard
at the clock. and said: "Confound
| you. why couldn't you have said all
that at once" After this relation the
bishop condensed his remarks
SWORD SPEECH FORMULA.
If all of our naval heroes have not
presentation swords to burn. says the
Philadelphia Press, here is a model to
| be followed in the speech which shall
| announce the next blade bestowed in
| recognition of late work done upon the
Spaniard: When Caroline Amelia
| Elizabeth of Brunswick was carried
over to England to wed that model of
virtue and department who was after
ward so eager to send the poor woman
home in disgrace. George. then Regent,
| commissioned a certain captain to pre-
| sent. with appropriate address,
sword of honor. to Sir William Hoste.
| who so ga1lantiy commanded the ship
! which brought the bride across the
| seas. This is the formula: Billy, my
| boy here be sword for thee"