Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-08
Mem and Things

Mr. Cannon is a man of simple tastes.
He does not care to have frills on the
national capitol, am whenever he can use
plain, lowly cuss word in place or an
embroidered bit of eloquence he is sure
to do so His amusements are few. he
loves to raise the tariff in the afternoon
and to raise the ante in the evening in
nIeasant little semi occasional game be-
tween friends.
He is a creature of habit. Every other
wear he runs for congress. In the OIL
wear he runs for speaker of the house.
Every four years he declines the vice
presidency. Every ten years he buys a
new bank Each fall he puts on a new
s,lit of black clothes and hat with an
extra rakish brim, adjusts his cigar at an
overbearing angle and goes to Washing
ton. where he runs the nation on the hign
sneed all winter and listens to the pleas
of congressman who want committees, ap-
rropriations, bills, reforms, appointments
anc amusement.
On these occasions the applicant watches
the speakers cigar feverishly. II 1t re-
mains pointed aloft. all is wen. II :.
shifts and points downward like Roman
omperor's thumb, all Is lost.
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Notwithstanding the wide publication OF
his nictures, King Alfonso has been the
victim of a series of inconvenient mis-
taken identities since his arrival In Eng
land.
Kensington gardens; he has been held up
IN his motor; he has been forced back by
1oyaI nolicemen WITH the rest of the crowd
from the gates of Kensington palace; ne
las been jeered at by children on the
streets as a bilious and dyspeptic looking
foreigner, and in a Bond street shop the
tradesman was exceedingly chary IN TAX
ing the young mans order, eitner IN ies. 90.
of hoax or under the impression that the
Snanish prisoner swindle was about to be
worked off on him.
A very eccentric will has been left by
william John Watson of Portadown, a Dig
land owner in the counties OF Armagh
i and TYRONE. who was once a New York
business man.
Among other curious bequests he pro-
vided for dinner costing $125, which the
trustees of his estate and the Portadown
municipal council should hold every hye
wears. hear the win read and decide while
dining how his charity bequests should be
exnended for the benefit of the town.
s.
1xing Alfonso is most carefully guarded
at night. For four, centuries the slumbers
of successive sovereigns of Spain have
been watched all night by the Monteras
de Espinosa, body of men to whom Is
relegated the exclusive privilege of guard
ing their monarch from sunset to sunrise.
They must have an honorable military
career and be natives of the town of Es-
pinosa.
The old headgear which Geronimo, the
indian chief, wore in his last battle with
Cen. Miles has been bought by Robert w.
Wells of washington and will be given to
the Smithsonian Institution.
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Prince d'Abre Pazratide of Egypt
gave the professors in the architecture
Department at Harvard an interesting
chat concerning the age of art in his
"The other day" the prince said. u
was reading some papyrus that is thou
sands of years old which has been uis-
covered by French scientist. In chat
papyrus was the story of boy who
stuck pins into pieces of paper and
arranged them so that they might be
felt by his school teachers,
The prince said that in this old papy-