The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-10-25
Fun OF The WORLD.

doubt the veracity of man considerably oder
than himself and told him Don't call
mar sir said the excitedly; i have reputation
to maintain. and 1 MAINTAIN / DO II
at the point OF pistol. oh Logan is said to have
calmly retorted that won't be You maintain
your reputation every time YOU tell lie"
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Andrew Carnegie is only few inches above 1--WE
In height Henry w. Fhipps, his old partner is
inch taller. and John Walker member Of the
trio who revoutionized steel. has
perhaps little the better Carnegie Phpps.
AS Tor Henry Z Prick his head would just about reach
to the shoulder of ordinary height 1t is said
that one day. when these walking
together on the streets of Pttsburg boosblack called
out TO his business rival further the block the
miliionafres passes: Eh, Jimmy git onto der runis
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Some curious anecdotes of Hermann zumpe.
the Wagneran conductor Munich. died suddenly
few weeks ago. He well known % De a spiritual
ist. and believed that the ghosts composers
spred his conducting of their works One day Zumpc
told another conductor Beethovens spirit
present during the performance the sym
phonies and pleased the ghost that after the end
OF the first movement. he exclaimed Ar last!' An
my fellow" exclaimed other conductor surely
Beethoven made mistake. he thought the end
the last movement"
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When the William Ernest Henley was editing
DON he had his writers whom ne
valued highly Robert Louis Stevenson who prepared
brilliant stories that are now
The New Arabian Nights. II related that night
they sat down play game of poker. The luck from
the with Henley He pot after pot. Stew
lucky If in any dea, he got a pair treys
Disguised with the the cards had taken.
threw up his and apostrophized fortune this
quaint Fortune, tickle wench, 1t is that
make me lose but you can never make pay
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Commenting on the receptions of his various plays H
J. ". Dam recently told reporter
opening production of his play THE Coquette" he
thought nobody with the
leave the theatre alive. The house" he said the
little Prince OF Wales managed by Oscar Lowentha The
piece did WELL and at the there
for the author did not mind going out, similar
play of mine, The Shop Girl had twenty months in
the Gaety and felt that the pit gallery would
me with courtesy who had least pleased
them But the 'Boor that footghts
that night 1 made my appearance was really like
tornado! 1t almost paipable. fairly reeled and
staggered back as il like something that
might be warded off had of the curtain
between me and it, And it endured. tooendured until
iet myself pulled and erked about and realized that
the curtain to the end of which had been holding
one clenched hand ascending. / about
there stood Lowenthal the color marble stepped
down. pushed me aside and then gave audience
amount of information private
acter of each and every individual composing I
not believe that coster from Whechapel could
competed with the that night expert
of choice Bngsgate. He blackguarded until they
were stled. and then he blackguarded
paid for that speech with fortune FOR popular indlg
theatre.
too stubborn to let held until he wiped
&c &c
Justin Mccarthy says that Thackeray often created
quite impressions by induging in
irony in the presence OF people who incapable Of
understanding it. One curious he gives
this: Thackeray had been dining Garrick.'
talking in the smoking after dinner
club acquaintances One of them happening
left his cigar home, Thackeray though dslfk-
ing the who a notorious tufthunter. good
aSIxro
the cigar but. not finding it to his liking had the Tad
taste to to Thackeray 4 say Thackeray you
mind saying don't think this cigar Thack-
doubt rritated at the mans ungracousness
bearing in mind his tut-huntng predictions quietly
sponded. You ought to. good fellow. given
me by lord Instead. however of detecting the irony,
the dclt Immediately attributed snobbish
es son Thackerays part and to the end Of his days
went about declaring that Thackeray had boosted
he had been given cigar by a lordf d"
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Rudyard Kipling visited the late Cecil Rhodes
at Lelkerwjn. mis- fruit farms at Paar South
Africa. One morning Rhodes round his
breakfast leaving his guest who was not energetic
behind. Time on Rhodes did not appear Hun
Kipling action while
he busy his account. As Rhodes re-
turned he found his trees bearing a kind
the shape Of placards inscribed huge letters
with "Faminei' We starving Feed u.s." On
reaching the front confronted with
lowing in still larger type: For the human racebreak-
tones the mind invigorates body II has sus-
tanned thousands; It viii sustain you See that you
it, Then in the house. every available wall.
across other mysterious placards IN pa
appeal why die when little breakfast proiongs
fe? Larger larger the type: 1T Il late Is
still later leading at last into the little breakfastroom.
where found kpling reading his paper in peaceful IN
noceuce. but very hungry II need much inge-
nuty TO guess author Of these hroadsi9es.
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A young in this city deeply impressed with
beauties of Freemasonry and after considerable ef
fort. and otherwise. had fitted himself for the
ceremony initiation into the order relates the View
Evening Post lie had heard of the goat and hs
'gridiron~ and many other things connected with the
degree. and prepared 70 be surprised a. moth
ing Of his first evening the lodge ~
stepped a tack which stuck Into his foot
him considerable pain He said rothrr and made ef-
fort to remove il. painful though Two hours
later when seemed him that nothing
TO way initiation h asked = Re might
take the % his foot IFS suHeriuss cot
moderated he that tack rad noting
70 do with the ceremonies
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rrirht few days ayr says tie Ne~ YORK Essaing Fps;
The foreman kesEd yen and msca comnsot5on
10, q oa4pentesx re vzrs r1shsd to =.
lie found one q men groen4 vifh iweines
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