Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-09-04
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When reproved on one occasion tor
not attending a committee called to
consider the paving of st. Pauls
churchyard with wood, Charles MACK
lin, the noted Irish actor, said: "Oh,
you lay your heads together, and 1t
will soon be done"
When Queen Victoria was at Bal
moral some time ago she visited an
aged cottager, and, on leaving her,
said: "You will now no longer be
afraid of me, and l shall expect you to
pay me a VISIT "Ah, ma'am," she re-
piled, Its not yerself Pm frightened
at; it's them grand servants"
General de Gallifet one day, in the
corridors of the Chamber of Deputies,
was talking to a friend, when he sud
denly heard cries from the ChamDer OF
Assassin! Assassin With laugh,
he said to his friend: "They are calling
for me-" and with perfect calm he en-
tered, and called at the top of his voice:
''Voila! Voila!"
Among the many stories told lately
in connection with the late Duke OF
Argyll is one concerning distinguish
ed officer of the army who called ON the
Duke at Inverary Castle, and was told
by the servant that he was not at home.
"Where is hep asked the officer. Hes
ava, awa'," was Donald's hesitating
reply; "awa' washing himself" The
Duke was at seaside watering place
Ex-Judge w. II. Moore, of Chicago,
organizer of half a dozen gigantic steel
and iron combinations. has made it an
infiexible rule never to allow his utter
reported that he was going to Europe,
and reporter visited him to verify the
rumor. But the Chicagoan was as OBJ
durate as ever. "You won't say
whether you are going away, Judge r
was asked. II never talk for publica-
tion," was the suave answer. Cant
you tell us anything about the condition
of the iron business!" Il do not talk
for publica tion." The reporter had pur-
sued his victim into the elevator, which
was slowly descending. Renouncing
any ambition for the coveted interview,
he said: "a fine day, Judge" "Not for
publica tion," was the instructive reply.
In the lately issued memorials of
Charles Henry Pearson, once one of
Australia's chief men of affairs, an
amusing story of his student life at
Oxford deals with wayward genius,
whom he styles "L.": "It was one of
his troubles that he was afflicted with
self-consciousness. One day he con-
fided to friend that he had determined
to try getting drunk as possible cure.
The friend argued against the plan, but
attached no particular Importance to
the matter, and presently forgot all
about 1t. Late that night, as he was at
work, he was startled by a noise as of
some one stumbling upstairs and fall
ing against his door. He opened his
oak, and 81 staggered in and threw
himself on chair, very drunk and NUT
tering, 'Self-conscious still; self-con-
scious still!"
The late Mrs. Gladstone's implicit
confidence in her husbands ability
which amounted almost to g. belief In
his infallibility-is well illustrated In
the following anecdote: During the
troublous times of 1885, just before the
fall of Khartoum and the murder of
Chinese Gordon, which were really the
cause of the defeat of the Gladstone
ministry little later, statesman high
in the councils of the Liberal party
called at Mr.. Gladstone's residence, and
was cordially received by his wife. He
was in lugubrious frame of mind, and
spoke dismally of the situation. "Ah.
Mrs. Gladstone" he began, ''these are
dreadful times. The clouds are very
thick. We can only remember that
there is One above who will helm us in
all our troubles, and that He will guide
US out of our difficulties" "Oh, yes.n
replied Mrs. Gladstone, with great
cheerfulness, she is upstairs shaving
just now, but he'll be down directly"
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