Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-27

term, Judge DuVal as Controller of the Treas
ury, and Giles as Senator from Virginia In
course of the conversation the Senator let
tall the question: By the way, what has
become of that cackling old maid Jenny
G1bbonE He was completely crushed by
the unexpected reply She is Mrs. Duval,
sirl"
1t pays to remember when travelling abroad.
that English is the most widely spoken
language on the globe, Mark Twain will
vouch He was standing beside a charming
young woman in one of the Partisan public
gardens, and, struck with her appearance, he
called out to his companion: Dan, just look
at this girl! How beautiful she isl'' Imagine
his feeling when the object of his admiration
calculated: Il thank you more for the evident
sincerity of the compliment, sir, than for the
extraordinary publicity you have given it.
Twice in one evening the great novelist,
Charles Dickens, was guilty of an embarrassing
malaproPisn. " | have Distinguished myself
in two respects lately" he wrote to friend
explaining the matter. 81 took young lady
unknown down to dinner and talked to her
about the Bishop of Durham's nepotism in
the matter of Mr. Cheese l found she was
Mrs. Cheese. And | expatiated to the MEM
Der from Marylebone, Lord Fermoy-generally
conceivlng him to be an Irish member-on the
contemplate character of the Marylebone con-
stituency and Marylebone representatives"
1t is related of the late Lord Salisbury that
he once met at reception member of Parlia-
ment who wished to ingratiate himself with
the Prime Minister, and who with that end
in view was struggling to carry sparkling
conversation. Pointing out a rather stout
woman at the other end of the ROOM the
lucky NJ. P, asked: 81 wonder who that
h!omnely old woman is over there3 That,
sir, answered His Lordship, is my wife p
oh, no, mol" stammered the confused par
Humanitarian, 4 mean the person standing
on her right. =" Indeed That is my daugh-
ter u"
William E. Gladstone while Prime Minister
of England, appointed Sir George Pollock
governor of the Tower of London. One morn
ing the grateful veteran called at Downing-st.
to express his thanks Although the cabinet
man IN and introduced him round the circle.
In the succeeding conversation Sir George
| fell INTO long-winded narrative about
| 1mPecuniOus member of the nobility who had
| been detected cheating at cards. They
| turned him out of all the clubs he belonged
| to- he concluded. Even the Reform Club
would have nothing more to do with him.
| This confession of his opinion of the Reform
| Club might not have been so frank, had Sir
George known that three-fourths of his audi
| ence were members
The traction problem was not a particu-
lary burning issue when Henry Ward Beecher
| inquired OF a New York car-dr1ver If he did
not consider it possible to discontinue the
| service all day on Sunday. " 1t would be
mighty good thing for us, SIR answered the
| driver, ignorant to who his questioner was;
| but there's hope for it as long as they
keep that Beecher theater open in Brooklyn.
| The cars have to run to accommodate that
| 1t is not often that the mistake of single
man will involve entire body of citizens in
| confusing error. Such, however, was the case
in a small English village one Sunday, when
| two circuit judges, Lord Kenyon and Justice
| Rock, entered the town just in time to accom-
| pany the population to the little village church.
| The parish clerk anxious to have the con-
gregation show due appreciation of the honor
conferred by the presence of the distinguished
| Jurists, gave out two verses of of the
metrical Psalms: Speak, o we judges of the
| earth, if just your sentence be; or must not
| innocence appeal to heaven from your decree?
| Your wicked hearts and judgments alike
| by malice swayed; your gripping hands, by
| mighty brides to violence betrayed" BY this
| time most of the adults had walked up to the
| application of the Psalm and remained silent,
allowing the children and a few women to
continue the second verse.
When Lord Eldon was appointed deputy
professor of law at Oxford University, he was
made the victim of embarrassing practical
joke, of which he gives the following account
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