Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-11-13
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| A schoolboy at a prize examination,
says the Woman's Journal, furnished
the following biography of the patri-
arch Abraham: HE was the father of
Lot and had two wives. One was called
Ishmael, and the other Hagar. He kept
one at home; and he turned the other
into the desert, where she became
pillar of salt in the daytime and pillar
of fire by night
J. NJ Barrie's story of how a tele-
graph editor, receiving dispatch that
the Zulus had taken umbrage," head
ed the news, Capture of Umbrage by
the Zulus," has been paralleled by an
editor in the West. Shortly after the
anti-Semitic riots in Austria, a slight
shock of earthquake was felt in the vi
cinity of Vienna, and a cable dispatch
put it tersely that there had been '.seis-
mic disturbances" near the capital. He.
headed the item, Down with the
Jewsr'
Paine: you will move for new trial,
| presume, Mr.. Paine." Paine rose with
demeanor that was painful in its
solemnity. 81 thank your honor for
your suggestion" he said, "but l am
oppressed with the gravest doubts
whether have the right to move for a
new trial in this case. Your honor, I
have already asked for and have re-
ceived for my idiot client the most pre-
cious heritage of our English and
American common lava trial by a
jury of his peers" The judge then or
dered the verdict set aside.
Haydn had peculiar way of deter
mining the time in which a piece of
music should be sung. On one occa-
sion, female singer in high esteem at
court had been appointed to sing one of
Haydn's compositions. At the rehearsal
she and the conductor differed as to the
time of the music. The matter was to
be settled by referring it to Haydn him
self. When called on to decide he asked
the conductor if the singer was hand
some. Very" was the reply, "and a
special favorite with the Prince"
''Then she is right" replied Haydn.
Paine, of Cambridge, one of the most
brilliant lawyers of his generation, be-
came interested in a case, as a matter
of charity, in which a lad of some fif-
teen years was charged with arson.
Paine defended the boy and offered
conclusive evidence that he was, to all
practical purposes, an idiot and totally
irresponsible. Nevertheless, the jury in,
the case, after a charge from the court
which was virtually an order for ac-
quittal, brought in verdict of guilty.
The presiding judge then addressed
A plumber who was sent to the house
of stock broker to execute some re-
pairs was taken by the butler into the
dining-room, and was beginning his
work when the lady of the house en-
tered. "John," said she, with suspi-
cious glance toward the plumber, ''re-
move the silver from the sideboard and
lock it up at once" But the man of
lead was in nowise disconnected.
.'Tom," said he to his apprentice, who
accompanied him, take my watch and
chain and these coppers home to my
missus at once. There seems to be dis
honest people about this house."
Anthony Hope Hawkins believes very
much in men of letters standing by
each other, and he has worked tremen-
dously hard to help on the fund which
the Authors Society of London is try
ing to accumulate, from which pen
sions are to be paid to authors whose
literary merit has not brought them
corresponding income, and who view
increasing years with fear. Recently
an unfortunate writer, who visited Mr..
Hawkins at his rooms in Buckingham
street, by the Embankment Gardens,
exclaimed on leaving with something
in his pocket: "Oh, sir, feel that Provi-
dence must have sent me to your And
the reply came with twinkle in his
benefactor's eye: "Let us hope, how
ever, that Providence will not acquire
the habit of doing So