Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-09-12
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On one occasion at q dinner at BalliOl
the masters guests discussed the ca
reers of two Balliol men, one of whom
had just been made judge and the
other a bishop. ''Oh," said one, II
think the bishop is the greater man.
A judge, at the most, can only say, You
be hanged but bishop can say, You
be damned'' "Yes," tersely remarked
the master, ''but if the judge says You
be hanged you are hanged"
Sir Henry Irving declares that once,
when he was playing "Othello" in
small town in the then Washington Ter
ritory, his audience was composed for
the most part of miners. when we
came to the handkerchief scene, where
OthelIo demands the handkerchief of
Desdemona many times" he says, Il
noticed that the audience was becom-
ingly exceedingly nervous. About the
third time the demand for the handker-
chief was repeated a large Irishman
in the rear of the house shouted: Wipe
your nose on your slaive, you nayger,
and let the play go on"
Z
victim of peculiar accident at Port
Costa recently. He was standing near
a switch to a siding ON which freight
trains generally wait for the passenger
trains to pass. He saw young lady
walking on the siding, and, believing
her to be in danger, gesticulated We
hemently to cause her to step from be-
ing the oncoming freight train, mo-
| toned back to him that he was in dan
ger. AS the train came nearer both
became the more earnest in their shout
ing and gesticulating, while neither
| thought of stepping off the tracks.
Reilly proved to be in the wrong. The
| freight, instead of taking the siding,
went straight through. While he was
still trying to cause the young lady
| to get out of the way Of supposed dan.
ger, the train struck him from behind.
hurting him from the track and break
ing his right arm in two places, badly
cutting his head and bruising his side
He will recover.
| Apropos Of the death of John w
Mackay, the New York Herald remarks
that one of the notable episodes of the
residence of the Mackays in Paris was
that which connected them with Meis
sonier. The great French artist was
commissioned by Mr.. Mackay to pain
a portrait Of his wife for the sum o1
seventy-five thousand francs. When il
was delivered the Mackays decided tha
it was entirely unworthy Of the sub
ject and Of the painter. Il wanted {
Meissonier," he said, mot Meissoniel
painting a slovenly imitation of Ca
banel." This criticism was indorsed b.
some artists who had seen the picture
1t was said that the French artist
deeming anything to be good enough
for Nevada, took no pains with th'
work, that he had produced it after al
insufficient number Of sittings, and hat
hastily painted in the hands from on
of his models. Furthermore, the por
trait showed q woman ten years olde
than it's subject. Many French artists
however, indorsed the work. Hi
friends gave Meissonier a dinner as
vindication, and the French press ant
public were for a time clamorouSly in
dignant. The indignation rose to eli
max when it was reported that Mrs
Mackay had thrown the picture into tn
fire. This was not true. 1t was hum
in a small room, with it's face to tn
wall. To-day it has an abiding place il
Carlton House, Mrs. Mackay's Londol
mansion.