The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-09-02
ABOUT PERSONS AND THINGS.

Ed Green, the Texas railroad man,
and son of Hetty Green, has become a
practical florist.
Mrs. Sylvia Langdon Durham OF
Southington. Conn, has begun her 1O6th
year and is still spry."
On his recent visit to Paris, the shah
OF Persia was famed night and day by
relays of perspiring attendants.
Harold Speed. the London artist, who
is bit of dandy as well as a wit
says: Look a fool, but don't be one. y
Mrs Astor is said to be the most
methodical woman in society If her
dinner is announced at 8 o'clock it be-
gins on the dot.
Bret Harte's daughter, Ethel, is liv
ing in London. Her health is seriously
undermined and a number of literary
people are TO raise a fund for her.
Vine Hovey. a railroad agent at For
est. KY. Will shortly resign after forty
years of service. He has never asked
or accepted leave Of absence.
Henry H. Rogers. of the Standard Oil
company, is a Yankee, having been
born in Fairhaven. Mass, and has little
or none of the Yankee proverbial stingi-
ness.
William schaus of Twickenham. Eng
land and New York, is TO present the
United States National museum with
collection of South American moths,
embracing some $4,000 specimens.
John Lafarge. jr.. son of the artist,
has Just been ordained to the priest
hood of the Catholic church at Inns
bruck, Austria. He was graduated at
Harvard and studied abroad for several
years. His work will be in America.
One of the rooms of the cars palace
at Tsarskoe, near st. Petersburg. has
walls of lapis lazuli and a floor of ebony
inland with mother of pearl. Another
room has walls of carved amber, and
the sides of third are laid with beaten
gold.
Seumas MoManus and DR.. Douglas
Hyde. two Of the leading literary men
of Ireland and of Europe. will be heard
on the lecture platform in the United
States the coming season. DR. Hyde
and is the author of Literary His
tory of Ireland" McManus a few
years ago jumped into fame by his
writings in magazines on Irish folk
lore, etc.
A delegate from Iowa to the Christian
Endeavor convention in Baltimore was
heard giving his views on long SER
mons. He said they were like wagon
wheel. His audience did not catch the
meaning of his remark, and he was
asked to explain. why" he said, ''the
longer the spoke the greater the tire"
A Scotch minister instructed his clerk
who sat among the congregation dur
ing service, to give a low whistle if
anything in his sermon appeared to be
exaggerated. On hearing the minister
say, TN those days there were snakes
fifty feet long" the clerk gave a sub
dued whistle.
81 should have said thirty feet" add
ed the minister.
Another whistle from the clerk.
"On consulting Thompson's CoINord-
ance." said the minister. in confusfn,
az see the length is twenty feet"
Still another whistle, whereupon the
preacher leaned over and said in a
stage whisper, ''Ye can whistle as much
as We like, Macpherson. but I'll no take
anither foot off for anybody. '-Har-
pers Weekly.
A Frenchman was boasting that he
had thoroughly mastered the English
language. when he was asked to write
from dictation the following specimen
of our choice eccentric vernacular:
las Hugh Hughes was hewing Yule
log from yew tree, a man dressed in
garments of q dark hue came up to
Hugh and said. Have you seen nv
ewes?' To which he replied IF you will
wait until T hew this yew, I will go
with you to look for your ewes
After an attempt, the Frenchman adj
rnitted his mistake. He used to imagine
he was used to English speaking. but
he would be more careful how he used
the language in future.-London Tit
Bits.