The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-22
CLEVER LITTLE STORIES.

A standing joke for years among actors
has been an expression about carrying
an audience along with ones company.
st shall carry my own band and orcESs-
ira with me next season. says man
ager in discussing his plans. ''Better
carry your own audience too,'' replies
listener. But there is on record one
example Of a managers doing that very
thing. Some years ago John H. Mech
put on his son as q. star in an old COM
edy called 'tArabian Nights" The per-
Torrance was bad and the audiences
were grotesquely small. But Mech was
undaunted. He had decided to bring his
son before the public notice or die in the
attempt. The last stand Of the tour was
Lancaster, n. Y, village of about 5000
population lying ten miles outside of
Buffalo. The day of the performance
Mech came to a young man in Buffalo,
named Everson, and requested his pres
ence at the performance So Everson
journeyed to Lancaster. When he en-
tered the theater there We're about 200
persons, all in evening dress, In the
house. Everson afterward said that he
never saw a worse performance in his
life and never a more enthusiastic audi
ence. Almost every line met with a
hearty laugh or boisterous applause. At
the conclusion Of each act the perform
wondering. Everson walked out to the
house after the performance. Mech met
him and told him that two special troll
ley cars were waiting to take the audi
ence home. Are all these people going
back to Buffalo tonight?' asked Ever
son. "Oh, yes" answered Mech, 81
brought them with me. 1 was bound to
have an audience" ''Weu. what-what
were the actual receipts tonight, if I
oClY
dollars and twenty-five cents" replied
Mech. ''You see, I couldn't charge nv
guests" And the entire audience en-
tered the cars that Mech had chartered
and returned to Buffalo.
One day, in a London tobacconist's
shop, Sandow, the strong man, was hand
ed some change, and in the middle Of it
he saw something that looked like a
bad shilling. he pushed it back across
the counter. i think that one is bad,
he said. Nonsense" said the shopkeep-
er, with an incredulous air. He took IN
the shilling and tried it in the little brass
coin tester that was screwed to the side.
Of the counter Then he rendered n
again. Its quite good" he said. II
can't bend it," Sandow smiled and took
it between his finger and thumb. You
can't bend it! May I try?" he asked
certainly said the man, with grin
A0 SIAoLe man IFeSSed the tip of his
forehnger toward the tip of his thumb
and the spurious coin bent like tissue
paper. Well" said the tobacconist.
dumtounded, TT looks like a wrong '1n
after all! Perhaps you will accept an
other?'s and Sandow did
Sr Ch1hchen Iofengluh, formerly
Cnlna's ambassador to Great Britain and
now transferred to st. Petersburg. is
credited with being witty as well as in
teIlectuaL Being shown over a fitting
shop at Birmingham not long ago. his
attention was called to a riveting ma
chine. Yes" said his excellency, "It
IS riveting my eyes at this moment ~
Ihese are pigs, your excelIency.' re-
marked his guide. speaking of the raw
material from which tubes were heinz
made. ''And see the pigs became saI,s7
ages as usual" replied the celestial
poinung to pile of tubes lying near
IN the ammunition works Sir Cbibcben
was informed that any employee discov-
cred with matches would be at once dis
missed I suppose the same thing might
happen II they were not discovered }, was
the ambassadors comment.