Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-31

L TIC, gave up llOPC Win thett Wye
Did you ever see a mans foot with
six toes?' said Professor Whitaker, IT.
ritahly glancing at the drawing board
on which the young man had been try
ing to draw foot.
Don't know as did," drawled the
| boy.
'.Then why do you draw that foot
with six toes?" said the professor. more
irritatcd than ever.
Because your old cast of a foot has
six toes" said the boy.
An investigation of the cast proved
| this to be fact.
That boy is a successful artist now,
said Professor Whitaker, and his sue
cess in life came from drawing just
what he saw. If 1 could get boys who
would draw six toes on a foot If six
| toes showed on the cast, l would turn
out more artists"
REPRESENTATIVE A. D. Morris of
Schuyler county, had an experience In
the House the other day that was
somewhat notifying to him for 4
short time, says the Kansas City Jour-
nal. He had been writing a letter to
his wife. In his haste to prepare an
amendment to a resolution that was
pending he mistakenly wrote it on the
back of a sheet of paper in the letter
and sent it to the clerks desk. He
arose at the same time and said:
Mr.. Speaker, / wish to offer an
amendment"
1.-The gentleman from Schuyler, Mr..
Morris, offers an amendment" said the
speaker pro TEN.
Read it. Mr.. Clerk"
Clerk Jeff Pollard, with a quiZZical
expression, began in an unusually loud,
clear voice:
My Dear Maggie-I feel myself aw
fully lonesome here without you"
Hold on there, Mr.. Clerk" yelled Mr..
Morris. That's not right. That's the
| wrong side"
The House held it's sides to laugh,
while Morris sunk into his seat with a
very red face, and Clerk Pollard turned
| the paper and began to read the resolu-
| ton.
Chicago millionaire, George T..
Cline, had an extraordinary hobby. He
| was connOisseur of Irishmen, ac-
cording to the local papers. Though on
| himself he would never spend more
than Is or 20 cents day, he thought
nothing of buying Irishmen sumptuous
dinners with champagne, in order TO
hear them talk in their musical brogue.
An Irishnlan once played Colonel Cline
false. He stole a pair of boots from
MIN. Discovering the theft, the mil
lionaire pursued the Irishman, ovhrtak-
ing him as he was about to enter a.
rawnshop, with the boots in :. his
hand. "Those are my boots; you have
stolen Them" said Colonel Cline Sure,
it was only joke" said the Irishinan.
But the memorable millionaire nailed
the thief before a magistrate, and here
again the man repeated: 1T was only
a JOKE, your honor. only. a joke,
hey?" said the magistrate.A. "Well, Mr..
Cline, how far away fromayour house
had he carried the boots when you
overlook him?" cover a mile. sir" re-
piled the millionaire. Held for court"
said the magistrate, "Thissish case of
carrying the joke too far. ss
District Attorney Jerosnes has a
brother, Larry" Jerome. whose strange
life story, as dictated by himseH, sap-
peared serially in the New York Eve
ming World a few years ago. This
brother started his eccentric career
while still at Princeton by an undue
love of art, Robert Bonner had given
President McCosh of Princeton mag
nificent snow white horse of which the
old president was unfortunately proud and
which he was wont to drive in triumph
through the streets. One day, as the
president was about to drive Oh a hurry
call to Trenton, his hostler failed to
bring the white steed to the door on
time. Going to the stable to- inyesti-
gate, the president found that young
Jerome had painted the horse "a vivid
and patriotic red, white ana blue.
Then he had permitted the Old Glorious
horse to roll in the grass, adding a
Galway green to the general effect. AS
the president had no circus to advertise.
he missed his drives for the next
month.
The question of the age of Senator
Chauncey Depew was under discussion
when enc of the party, who was APP
pealed to as most likely to know, an
sWered: Il cannot state positively, and
| can only approximate it through a
story l heard. 1t seems that after the
senator's marriage and his return from
Europe, the happy couple went to pass
| few days at Peekskill- on the Hudson.
the home Of his boyhood. Upon their
arrival, Mrs. Depew sat down on the
piazza and expressed her delight ct all
her surroundings, saying: L shall
| never tire of the beautiful spot, with it's
nj nj kt,s.,
river l suppose, senator, when you
were boy it was much wilder and
more primitive. Was the railroad then
completed?'
Railroad? exclaimed the senator.
why, bless you, my dear, when 1 was
boy there was neither railroad nor
river here"