Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1902-06-04
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% Modern lore.

While James Mcneil Whistler,
the eccentric American painter,
was trying on a hat in q London
shop one day, q customer rushed
in, and installing Mr.. Whistler
fOra clerk, exclaimed: 81 say,
this at doesn't it," The artist
eyed him for s minute aud then re-
piled, scOrniully: "Neither does
the coat, and I'll be hanged if l
like the color Of your trousers"
Mrs. George Whipple, a niece
\ Of Daniel Webster, says that when
Webster was visiting in the coun-
try he attended a little church
morning and evening. A fellow
senator said to him: "Mr. Web
ster, / am surprised hat you go
twice on Sunday to hear a plain
country preacher, when your pay
little attertian to far ADLER sermons
\ in WashiGA "" Webster replied,
''they preach Daniel Webster
the statesman, but this man has
been telling Daniel Webster, the
sinner, Of Jesus Of Nazareth, and
it has been helping him."
On one occasion, in trying an
abduction case, Lord Morris, once
\ chief Justice of Ireland, addressed
the Jury as follows; l am com
PEELED to direct you to find the
verdict of guilty in this case, but
you will easily see that I think it
is a trifing thing, which 1 regard
as quite unfit to occupy my time.
1t is more valuable than yours.
AT any rate, it is much better paid
I for. Find, therefore, the prisoner
\ guilty of abduction, which rests,
mindlye, on four points-the ia
Their was not averse, the mother
was not opposed, the girl was
willing, and the boy was con-
vaYnient.' "The Jury found the
prisoner guilty, and the Judge SEN
fenced him to remain in the dock
till the rising of the court. Hard
ly had he delivered centence than,
turning to the sheriff, Lord Morris
said: "Let us 60" and looking
at the prisoner, he called across
the court: "Marry the girl at
once, and God bless you BOTH"
According to the Paris Figaro,
it was at Compiegne, where the
car was recently entertained By
the French, that the King of Rome,
the Eaglet, granted the first petit
ton that was presented to him.
He had reached the mature age of
six months, when an old soldier
who had already received many
favOrs from the emperor, decided
that he wanted more, and thought
it would be q good scheme to
address his petition to the heir to
the the throne, and thus work on
Napole0n's sympathies. He ad-
dressed his petition to his majesty,
the King OF Rome. Napoleon
smiled when he read the address,
and ordered the Duke of FriOus to
take the paper to the king and
read it to him. This was done
with due sOlemnity and state and
the duke returned to the emperor.
"What did his majesty sayf1
asked Napoleon. Nothing replied
1.-THE duke. ssSilence gives con-
sent said the emperor; ''see that
tSis old rascal of a soldier gets
what he wants."
Miss Isabel LavOrO tells in her
book GA SpOrtswoman in India"
a story Of a hen that was sitting,
but unluckily for her Matching
operations, was interrupted By a
cobra, which entered through a
chink in the hen house. The
cobra made a fine meal of we'll
warmed eggs, but when it essayed
to retire by the same hole through
which it had entered it found
those eggs in the way. It was
much too large to get out, so it
stuck in the hole, half In the hen
hen house and half outside.
There it was discovered the next
morning in a surleited condition.
1t paid for its greediness with its
life, and then it paid back the
eggs it had stolen; for when the
body OF the snake was opened the
eggs were all found unbroken and
warm. They we're replaced IN
der the hen, and in due time they
were Matched, none the worse for
their peculiar incubation.
Some years ago, Judge jeremiah
Wilson who was acting Be counsel
for Admiral Schley when be passed
away suddenly at Washington,
D. O., a short time ago, was de-