Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-04-25

ClOSeburn, DumfrleSSnlre, ScOlldnu,
rested his horses at the end of the
field he was working a few weeks ago
and cast his eye back along the line
he had followed to see that it was
straight. 1t was not. His critical eye
noticed an unevenness in the ground,
and Samuel McMichan stepped back
over the clods of that highlying field
to ascertain the cause. He found that
his pillow had broken open an earthen-
ware pot, and before him lay scat
tered hundreds of pieces of what in
his homely iowland way he called
tin" With a capful of tin" Nc
Michan went off and consulted the
farmer, and most of the tin" turned
out to be silver pennies of the reign
of Edward l., who annexed Scotland,
and Edward H.. who lost it. There
were over 1000 of them, all in good
preservation, each measuring three
quarters of an inch across. They
weighed five pounds in bulk.
The oldest of the coins are those of
King Alexander Of Scotland, who ruled
from 1249 to 1855. There are also
few bearing the mint mark of Water
ford, in ireland. The latest are those
of Edward H., whom the Scots cheer
fully thrashed at Bannockburn in 1874
In 1913 Edward Bruce drove the Eng
lish oppressor out of Nithsdale, and it
is suggested that some Englishman,
being in hurry to reach the border,
put his 1000 silver pennies in pot
sherd and hid it in the ground.
Americans Wanted.
while American syndicates are
talking of giving us electric railways
under our streets and steamboats, on
the Thames, says the Westminster
Gazette, they might turn their atten-
tion to the cross channel service. If
New York were in the place of Lon
don we can imagine a magnificent
fleet of passenger boats in the chan
nell The train at Dover or Folke-
stone would be run straight on board
the steamer, as is done on Lake On
tario, and off again on the other side
SO that half the trouble and discom-
fort of the journey would be avoided.
But then the trains would be like draw
ing rooms on wheels, with bedrooms
attached, not merely stuffed boxes;
the boats would be like Atlantic liners,
and if the harborg could not take
them-well, we gu SIS that the harbors
would have to be made big enough to
do so. We are rot oyeranXious to
quicken the pace of living to the
American fever heat London, with
its antiquated omnibuses and sui
phurous underground and gently NOV
ing trains, may have charms for some;
but at the same time if London could
be handed over to the Americans for
a short space, while we hibernated, we
should find out how very much behind
the times we had been on waking up"
Upon the Just and Unjust.
The late Bishop of London was
quick at impromptus. Here is one he
wrote on card in the occasion of the
rainy church congress of London,
1899:
The rain it raineth ev'ry day
Upon the just and unjust Teller,
But chiefly on the just, because
The unjust takes the just's UNI
brella!
When DR.. Creighton was in Lon
don it was his habit to lunch at the
Athenaeum Club, around the corner
from his own home, in st. James
Square. "a club is place." he once
remarked, "where women cease from
troubling and the wicked are at rest"
While the bishops practice of wear
ing his inter drew censure he retort-
ed: MY predecessors have worn the
inter on their carriages, their tea
spoons and their horses blinkers. I
choose to wear mine on my head"
Ready Repartee.
The Journal des Debats relates the
following characteristic story of EN-
peror William III. when a little boy of
4 years: ut was on March 10, 1863.
King Edward VII. then prince of
Wales, was kneeling before the altar
of st. Georges chapel at Windsor with
his blushing bride, Princess Alexandra
of Denmark, now the queen consort
of England. During the wedding cere-
mony, which was most impressive
and attended by magnificent as
semblage of the British court and
nobility and foreign princes and dig
nitaries, a restless little boy was
noticed in the front row behind the
bridal couple. Two highland youths,
who held him by his hands, seemed
to have great difficulty in restraining
him. Suddenly the little fellow slip
ned from the grasp of one Of his
guards, who promptly caught him by
the ear to prevent further escapades.
This so angered the youngster that
he stopped and deliberately bit the
Highlander's bare calf. The ready
repartee created no little astonish-
ment and amusement among the at
tendant royalty and peerage. That
little boy is today the German EN-
neror William III. The two highland
ers who watched him at the time were
the duke of Connaught and the Duke
of Albany, his uncles."
Emperor and Actress.
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