The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-11-23

Charles Bannister made his first APP
pearance in London in piece called the
"Orators" in May. 1862 In this he gave
musical limitations. but the performances
taking place in the mornings his con-
vivial habits overnight precluded him
from shining as he might have done, n
| fact which was noticed by Foote, the
manager. To this Bannister replied, 81
knew it would be so; am all right at
| night, but neither | nor my voice can
| get up in the morning"
| He was invariably in difficulties on the
death of Sir Theodosius Roughton, the
topic of the hour in 1871, as he was said
to have been poisoned by laurel water.
Bannister said: "Pooh! Don't tell me of
your laurel leaves; | fear none but bay
leaf" (baliff).
| Once, when returning from EPSON to
town in a gig. accompanied by friend,
| they were unable to pay the toll at Ken
nington este and the man would not let
| them pass. Bannister Immediately Offer
ed to sing song and struck up "Thc
Tempest of War" His voice was heard
afar, the gate being soon throngca by
voters returning from Brentford. who G..
cored his effort, and the turnpike man,
calling him a noble fellow, expressed his
Willingness to pay $50 tolls for him al
any gate"
| Use of Tobacco
I A writer on customs mentions an Ole
French lady who, so years ago. said that
| women had come down from their ped
| estal since they let men smoke in theil
presence"
l doubt if Frenchwomen ever really
| occupied any pedestal at all. If they
| did, it was pedestal of gilt paper mache
But smoking has had vicissitudes. Be
| fore Beau Nash's day, say 1850, men
smoked in the assembly rooms at Bath
| Nash put down this practice (Which | dc
not defend). and about 1772 we find
johnson declaring, as an unquestionabe
fact, that smoking had gone out of
vogue.
No doubt there have been other revolu-
tons in the annals of tobacco. Now fash
ionable the weed had been, now 'low,"
but its fame has never been extinguish-
ed. BY the way, when smoking was
"out," in DR.. Johnson's day, snuff was
''in," so that there was no real improve
ment In matters.-Andrew Lang in Long
mans.
An Easy Name.
One day the following telegram was
handed in for delivery at the postoffice
Of Chepstow: "Going to Llanfairpwli-
gungwllgogerhllclydi ligogogoch; shall be
home by 4:30." The postmaster, thinking
that there was more than fair penn orth
of consonants in the name, referred it
TO his surveyor, who wrote back:
at is an attempt at the name (of a
OiIIa In AnOIasul h1f ic oyiJoptlu NJ
written by a Welshman; the spelling is
Incorrect, and, but for the joke of the
thing, the ordinary abbreviation-Llan-
fairpwll-would have been better. The
full name correctly written l give below
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
hwillandisilliogogogo Blackwood's.
Depend Upon Yourself.
The sooner a man discovers that for
whatever success he attains he must rely
not upon luck nor upon the help of others,
but upon his own labor solely the better
off he will be.
Some men spend their lives sitting on
the bank waiting for tow, while others
get out into their boats and pull for them
selves. And it may be here remarked
that every man has chance in this race,
ana no man need rear 10 enter, TOT the
race is not necessarily to the man who
feathers his oar the incest. The bungler
may win by keeping at it.
There are different degrees Of success
In life, but no man can achieve any of
them, high or low-he may be sure of
that-without labor.
Incredible.
81 got a bargain little while ago."
said the man with the convex eyeglasses;
bought No. John street. good as
new, for rs cents"
II don't know anything about the To-
cality," remarked Mr.. Gaswell, "but IL
you got it for any such ridiculous figure
as that I'm willing to bet it's mortgaged
for more than it's worth. Trib-
une.