New-York tribune., 1906-05-20

A& P) once put a joke into the mouth
T1rF of NScount Sherbrooke. 1t con-
Us cerned deaf member who was try
lB ing to hear a speech through an
ear-trumpet, and was to the effect
n that the foolish thus to
g sacrifice his natural advantages"
q This joke was gravey recorded in
Sherbrooke's biography one of
his own and it out that he
had heard it repeated so often as his that he did
believe he had made it. Ten years later it was
ascribed to Lord Beaconsfeld in Walter Siches
the best things were originated by the ancients.
elaborated by the French and credited to DlSrael.
In a recent edition of "reminiscences by the
third Lord Holland appears a story which has been
credited to more than one noted Enghshman. An
enthusiastic admirer of Wordsworth, SOuthey, and
Coleridge was extolng them to Person. the Greek
mirer, when Vergil, Milton, Dryden, and Pope
are forgotten. - agree with yOu-and not till
then" Person replied. Now, believe that Person
did not make that answer, but himself said, They
will be read when Vergil and Homer are forgotten,
and let it 90 at that. scholarly friend tells me
that it was Heine who afterward explained the joke
by adding crudely, and not till then.
l cannot leave this subject without paying my
respects to that kind of story which turns up
week with every great person in history from Peter
the Great Mr.. Roosevelt as hero. 1t Is the yarn
of the Great Man in Disguise.
The Great Man in Disguise"
KING LEOPOLD at a summer resort bumps into
IN portly man who does not recognize him in his
bathing-s suit. ~ What do you mean?" snOrts the
portly one. :" would have you know am member
of the Paris City Council -" Then offer thousand
pardons" replies the King (in anecdotes all
retorts should be made " at once" or quick as
lightning or without hesitation ,; am only the
King of the Belgans"
A young drives up to Balmoral and asks
standing at the gate to hold his horse. he
man complies. When the youth comes out again,
a friend introduces the oblging gentleman as Lord
Melbourne"
At Wiesbaden a young American is discussing in
the smokng-room with other men some views of
democracy. A man sitting near smiles now and
then. Ny argument seems not to convince you,
SAYS the youth to the smiling man Il presume
YOU are a monarchist. May l ask you to give me
your reasons for preferring that form OF govern
ment? -" Certainly. The first reason is that am
King Oscar of Sweden and Norway"
These stories of royalty 60 very well, especially
when the surprised person IS a fresh young Amer
lean; but the attempt get the startling rev.
elation when the hero American rather feeble
Two women from the country order young man
in goggles and fur to take them round Central Park
in his automobile He obeys They pay him nifty
cents for the ride And he takes ~
it. policeman tells them 1t ~sslESSa>
is Young Mr. Vanderbilt" r.
Mr. Roosevelt strolls through
the woods behind Sycamore H.
Hill and stops at a cider mill. w ~
Here he conveys the impress
! !" !. !. !. /. g.
sion to the innocent country [A
people that he is a really METF
clever IAN" Good! Then the III n ~
writer adds: They had no { Me- A\
idea that they talking AR4 ~
with the President of the United \l&zH y
States" Mr.. Anec- SZo -~TU
dote-forger, do you ~ l1WUN NKA
idiot that would IZ-JE/ MI
not recognize The R --S~4