Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-08-01
ANECDOTES FROM ANYWHERE.

Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish has such an as
sured place In society that she Ices
not hesitate to tell OF her husbands
early struggles with the world. While
in Nice last spring she related at a
dinner party how Mr.. Fish worked his
way up TO the presidency of the Hh-
nols Central railroad. A German
princeling who was amorJ the guests
remarked. with Just the trace OF a
sneer: Il had always heard hat your
husband came from a fine family"
Mrs. Fish met his thrust with perfect
good nature. "Oh, yes, he does. But
you see. In America ii is not a disgrace
TO work. How much better It would
be If those conditions prevailed In Eu-
rope We In America would be spared
so many titled nonentities-"
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A young newspaper man Of New
York who was recently sent to inter-
view the most prominent men In the
city with a visw to collecting their
Ideas az TO what had to the greatest
extent hIndered them In their careers,
says a contemporary, arrived In the
presence of James II. Keene. Il haven't
time to be bothered" he said at first.
i've just Come from Henry Clewe-~
said the tired reporter.
All" remarked Mr.. Keene, SEEM
ingly Interested, and what did he say
was his greatest hindranCe to success? %
"Modesty," answered his caller.
well, well" remarked Mr.. Keene
tnoughtfully. Then, pulling his beard.
he continued: If CleWS has the nerve
TO say that, you may record my
ltumbling block as-er-lack of It,"
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Phineas r. LoUndsbury, an 4
error OF Connecticut and now PRECEDENT
OF a New York bank. makes his legal
residence in Ridgefield, a small town
Of his native state, where he remains
during the summer months. A year or
SO ago he was elected mayor and still
holds the place. This spring a lot of
his young friends as n joke put his
name on the ticket as one OF the town
COnslables. lie was elected, accepted
the Office and was sworn In. Il get my
fun out OF It," he says Il spend my
leisure time In watching the men who
run me for office and In making them
keep off the sidewalks with their
wheels and live up to the town laws
In other ways"
Senator George Frisbie Hoar was the
n OnSCiouS hero of an amusing episode
which marked the commencement e3-
erCises recently he'd at the State Uni
VeTsity of Iowa.
lle SCllO.dIIS SClllelIldH lIOlll VhdbSd-
Chu&ettS delivered his address In q
teGt, and the June zephyrs were hav-
ing much sport With his manuscript,
which threatened 70 blow away at fire.
quent intervals.
Finally, Colonel George r. Burnett Of
the United States army, commandment
at the university, borrowed a knife
from Rev. DIR. George l.. Cady, chap
lain OF the university. This. as an
improvised paper weight. the colonel
placed upon the fiuttering leaflets at q
moment when the senator's back was
turned from him. At the close OF q
particularly eloquent period, Mr.. Hoar
stepped back and placed his hand upon
the manuscript, as IL to turn a page.
His fingers anne In contact with the
knife, closed upon 1t, and he thrust Ii
into his trousers pocket, In seemingly
absolute observation-disclosures. Then the
audience, having noticed the incident.
burst into laughter, while a look of sur
prise stole over the fatherly face Of
the gentleman from Massachusetts. He
murmured something about the Jester
never seeing the point of a joke" and
proceeded with his address.
Later in the day the senator was re-
preached by Or. Cyrus Northrop, presi-
dent Of the University Of Minnesota, for
preaching honesty to the boys Of Iowa
anu men setting tnem SUCH all e&alHple
Of misrepresentation"
The statesman's benign countenance
J showed only establishment until the
! president explained. Then Senator
Hoar dived into his pocket and drew
forth the borrowed" knife and a
knife cas- as well. The latter contained
an exact duplicate OF the instrument
he had taken In a moment of abstrac-
tion-in a dual sense-and the incident
was fully explained.
Senator Hoar enhanced in interest
the story, and gave a touch of romano
to 1t, repeating 1t with JUNCTION and
frequency during his visit in Iowa City.
The romantic phase was impaired by
the fact that Mr.. Hoar had carried the
knife continuously ever since he re-
| ceiyed it forty years ago. from his be-
loved wife.
Artificial rubies are now successfully
/ made UP to twelve or fifteen carats by
/ M Verneul q scientist Of Paris.