The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-02-23
NEW ORLEANS LETTER.
Foreign Doctors Tnssle with American
slang-state Fair Advocated Brooke's
Band ne-Miscellaneons Matters.

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Band dGone-Miscellaneous Matters.
New Orleans, La. Feb. 20, 1907.
Staff Correspondence of The Chief.
| Among the prominent carnival visi-
tors to New Orleans was distin-
guished physician from Carlsbad,
speaker Of twenty languages, sur
geon in the Austrian army and erst-
while physician to the late shsh OF
Persia. This bright particular man
of medicine, q Hungarian by birth,
speaks English luently and we'll, and
with thoroughly engaging accent,
but alasl and alas! again, in his effort
to master that most difficult Ito the
foreigner) of all human languages
American slang-his unpracticed
tongue surely and beyond doubt met
its first but unquestioned Waterloo.
''Mees Bantlay,n he said to me, 81
am of compleet deesgost with your
officials OF the postotfeece. / Wish
could tell them to 22l Thees morning
! they inform me that no mail ees there
for me. 'Inposseeble,' I say, and
reedeeculous. Veil, they can take
back chair. No more today viii for
mail make enquiry, not on y tin-type
of your lifeI'' Another time during
the course of q conversation he re-
marked: 81 would not for the world
have young lady sink / am an
OYSTER An oyster?n / repeated,
necessarily bewildered; then quite sud-
denly an illuminating thought struck
me. ''Oh, no, Doctor" explained,
'tyou mean q LOBSTER swell,
perhaps do, y he admitted, tan oys.
ter or lobster, whichever is that
terrible slang of your country, but so
far as can see, fish is a ish. y Onca
he asked me what I thought of him
and said langhingly: "Why, just
think you're ripping, doctor!" In.
stantly he grabbed his coat in panic.
''Oh, my goodness saket'' he cried,
''Vere?n When had explained to
him at length the meaning of rip
ping he let little pause ensue,
then observed gravely and with q
childlike smile that is Characteristic:
''Mees Bantlay, I, also, sink you are
tearing!''
Col. Martin F. Taylor. a former
Louisianian, but now a foremost busi-
ness man and prominent distiIler of
Kentucky, who is registered at the st.
Charles Hotel, declares that what
Louisiana needs is an annual state
fair to exploit her enormous agricul.
tural advantages.
Carl Wedderin, one OF the best.
known accountants In the south, died
here Friday night Of last week.
Julian q. Payne, . leading insur-
ance man and senior partner in the
firm OF Marshall ]. Smith & Co.,
general insurance agents, died very
suddenly Friday morning as a result
of pneumonia.
Brooke's Chicago Marine Band
closed It's first New Orleans season at
the Brooke Winter Garden in Baronne
street last Sunday night. The summer
opera season at the garden will be
opened about April Is.
Monday evening the forty sixth am
niyersary Of the inauguration of JEFF
ferson Davis as president Of the Con.
federate states was appropriately cele-
brated at Memorial Hall under the
auspices OF the Jefferson Davis Me-
mortal Associatio It was resolved
to erect in New Orleans monument to
the first and only president of the Com
federaey, and to celebrate the centen-
nial OF his birth Ia 1908. q. B,