Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-10-08


Maitre Labori, the noted French adj
Yocate who defended the Humberts, is
not remarkable in Paris so much for
the eloquence as for the neatness and
the Eolish OF his speech.
An American Journalist heard Labori
in court one day He says the advo-
Gates address was full of grace, wit
He quotes a passage re-
lating to old age wherein Labori, with
smile said;
''Old age-we shall none of us quite
understand that until we have attained
it--for no one OF us, here, is old. But
the other day ! visited my uncle, a
very aged man.
What is it like, uncle said, to
be old?'
And my uncle answered:
cit is like this: When one is
young, ones polite attentions to wom
en- are taken for declarations of love;
but when one is old ones declarations
of love are taken for polite atten-
tons
OF the childhood of his daughter,
Miss Coral Quay, who recently chris
tened in Philadelphia the battleship
PENNSYLVANIA. Senator NJ. S. Quay
sometimes tells an amusing story
I'VE had number of guests to din
ner one night, Mr.. Quay will say, land
somehow. in serving dish of chicken
/ forgot my little daughter. She, dis
appointed, sat and gazed thoughtfully
into her empty plate, not liking TO re
mind me of my oversight, not liking
| either, to he left out of the chicken
course Finally thought struck her
| She crumbled on her plate piece OF
| bread, and then she beckoned to the
plate OF chicken. saying coaXingiy, in
! the sing-song tone that we use in at
tracing fowls to us:
"'Here, chick, chick, chick. chick
chick, Here. chick, chick, chick
4 chick! Here, chick. Here, chick!
The late Marquis of Salisbury uset
4 to be very fond of whist, which h
i played with exceptional skill, Natural
4 ly. therefore, it disguised him to b.
/ placed with a bad partner. and. whel
!, he had bad partner, innumerabl
, were the comments, as bitter as acit
which in his quiet voice, he woul
! make upon the latter's faults.
/, At house party in nenonshire lor
81 Salisbury one evening was playin
: whist, impeded by partner of unu!
: ual stupidity. Nevertheless, the tw
were carrying off the hcnors; it almos
! seemed. so brilliant were Lord Sail
: burys plays. chat they would win.
In the middle of the game youn
| woman paused beside the noted states
/ man. She put her hand on his sturd
shoulder and she said:
81 We'll, how are you getting on?''
Very well, indeed, . replied Lor
: Salisbury. considering | have thre
adversaries
Carroll D. Wright, the authority u
on questions of labor. passed goc
part of his boyhood in the New Ham
: shire town OF Dunbarton. There use
= to live near Dunbarton a physicis
. remarkable for his pig-headed st
u jpidity. Mr.. Wright said of him I
y Gently:
q "A good story about this physicia
y used to circulate in our town. A
y coriing to it, an old woman stoppf
u his gig one day, and pointed
" wards house with Grape on Il
= dorr.
n $50. doctor she said malicious
e MIR Brown is dead, for all you pro-
!, ised to cure him, eh?'
u 1.-THE doctor looked at him in b
n pompous, stupid way.
=, You're mistaken he said. ~
"a didn't follow the progress OF the Cas-
pitts true Mr.. Brown is dead, but
u kdied cured. ~
Captain Charles Barr, of the F
e. lance. told the other day the Gu
Gus story of the origin of the wo
o. grog.
Sc IN the olden time said Captf
H. Barr. the sailors in the royal ma
ry OF Great Britain got their daily allc
NJ ance Of rum or hrandy-they got
in that is to say, undiluted, and tn
ar drank it undiluted coughing a
n gasping as they downed the fig
ily stuff.
sa- "But when Admiral Vernon to
he command he changed all that.
le- issued an order to the effect that
he cry ship in the navy must serve
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