Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-12-15
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It Is related that q woman. who Wis
tied the British Museum recently. said
to an attendant: 81 have been looking
about for a skull of Oliver Cromwell.
Have you no skull Of Cromwell here?'
mo, madam" the attendant answered.
How very odd" she exclaimed; "they
have a fine one in the museum at Ok
ford.''
On his first visit to London, an
Aberdeen youth visited refreshment
parlor and, noting woman eating an
ice, said to the waiter: Hi. man. gie
me yin O. thae." Being supplied, he
took spoonful, and made q wry race.
I'm dootin' it's bit frost bitten. mis-
ter" said he. "Oh. no. sir" remarked
the waiter, 'it's an ice." "Gosh! Do
they eat ice in Londonr' asked the
wondering Aberdonian; ''man. we
slide an skate ont in Aberdeen"
James M. Barrie. the novelist, has
no patience with reporters who try to
pry into his private affairs. On one
occasion he was asked to pen short
autobiography. At first he refused,
and then, when the reporter began to
coax him, he stopped him, took up his
pen. and wrote as follows: ION ar
rival in London it was Mr.. Barrte's
first object to make a collection Of
choice cigars. Though the author OF
My Lady Nicotine does not himself
smoke, his grocer's message-boy does
MIR. Barrie's pet animal is the whale.
He feeds it on ripe chestnuts."
Andrew Carnegie is only few inch
es above five feet in height. Henry
W. Phipps. his old partner. is not an
inch taller, and John Walker. the other
member of the trio who revoludon1zed
the manufacture of steel, has perhaps
a little the better Of both Carnegie
and Phipps. AS for Henry @. Frick,
his head would just about reach to the
shoulder of man Of ordinary height.
1t is said that one day, when these four
steel masters were walking together
on the streets of Pittsburg, a boot
black called out to his business rival
further down the block. as the mill
lionaires passed: "Eh, Jimmy. git
onto der runtsr'
Walking home from school, the other
day, some children were discussing the
perfection and usefulness Of their re-
spective fathers. my fathers the best
man in the world" said one little girl;
'he is a minister. He makes people
go to church" mine is the best"
piped up another; "he's doctor. He
makes sick people well so they can
go to church, Three or four more
enlarged upon the benefit the world
derived from their fathers, when final
ly a sweet, blue-eyed little girl said:
MY papa's the best of all. He's a
poet" "a poety' said another, in SYM
pathetic surprise; why, poet isn't
profession! It's a diseased"
of Hermann Zumpe, the Wagnerian
conductor at Munich, who died sud-
denly a few weeks ago. He was well
known to be spiritualist, and be-
ieved that the ghosts of dead compos-
ers inspired his conducting Of their
works. One day Zumpe told another
conductor of note how Beethoven's
spirit was present during the perform
ance of one of the symphonies, and
so pleased was the ghost that, after
the end of the first movement. he ex-
claimed: "At lastr' "Ah, my dear
fellow" exclaimed the other conductor,
surely Beethoven made a mistake.
He thought it was the end Of the last
movement"