The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1900-08-02

Once when G. II. Spurgeon fell down
marble staircase at Mentone, he
| turned a double somersanlt, in the
course of which some money fell from
his pocket into his Wellington boots
Having lost tooth or teeth in his de-
scent he humorously described the
whole transaction as painless DENTS
try with money to bootp
Here is gem from the Oxford Maya
zine: "a few days ago the rector OF
Oxford University received from gen
tleman the following: How much would
have to pay for the education of my
son in your university? Let me know
II l shall have to pay more In case my
son, besides rowing. should wish to
learn to read and write"
Dean Dickinson. the dean of the
Chapel Royal, Dublin, who preached
before the Queen on Good Friday, at
the Viceregal Lodge, during her recent
visit to the Emerald Isle, is well known
for his witty repartee. Once when he
heard that Mr.. Fitzgerald, surgeon-oc
ulist to the Queen in Ireland, was pay
ing holiday visit to Niagara, he
promptly remarked: Hell find a cat
aract there that he can't remove"
At certain cloth factory In Scotland
1t was the custom to fine the workpeo-
pie for turning out bad work. One day
n workman brought a piece of cloth to
be examined, and the manager found
two little holes about an inch apart.
He then showed these to the man and
demanded two shillings fine-a shilling
for each hole. SIS 1t shilling for each
holeT asked the man. "Yes," said the
manager "And is 1t the same for ev
cry hole, big or llttleT' "Yes, exactly
the same" said the manager well,
then, I'll save a shilling" and putting
his fingers In the holes, he quickly
made the two into one.
Ex-Governor George w. Peck, of Wis
consin, author of "Peck's Bad Boy"
was running n little country weekly In
the pineries In the early sixties. 1t
was an unimportant sheet save for one
column of jokes which Peck wrote each
week. This department caught the
eye of Brick" Pomeroy, who was then
printing his Democrat in La Crosse
Wis, and one day he wrote to Peck,
asking him whether he would be will
ing to go down to La Crosse and work
for the Democrat at twenty-five dollars
a week. Three days later Mr.. Pomeroy
got this telegram: 81 accept your offer
quicker than instantly. For heavens
sake don't withdraw itr'
Robert Toombs. who was a leading
member of the Confederate Congress
in 1861, always tried to impress people
with the belief that his genius made
him equal to any emergency. Even
when he studied hard, or awaited him
self of the labor Of others. he encour-
aged the idea that his most splendid
efforts were the result of the inspiration
of the moment. entirely off-hand,
without any special preparation for the
occasion. Once. when a very import
ant debate was going on in the Fed
eral Congress, Toombs made mag
nificent speech which attracted every
eloquent speech, but 1t was remarkable
for its mastery array of facts and fig
ures and its convincing arguments.
You must have devoted considerable
time to its preparation said one of
the statesman's admirers. "Well, |
gave about two hours to it," Tombs re-
piled, with careless, Indifferent air.
Some one repeated this to Alexander
Hamilton Stephens, who was at that
time Vice President of the Confeder-
acy, in the presence of several Con-
gressmen, and he exclaimed, some.
what irrltably: 1.-Two hours2 Pre-
pared that speech in two hours, did he !
Why spent two weeks on 1t myself"
Stephens had patiently and laboriously
collected the statistics, and Toombs
had merely added the fiourishes.