Evening journal., 1907-11-07
Personal and Pertinent

Kansas City recently wrote to a lawyer IN
another town OF the state asking for information touch
ing the standing OF person there who had owned the
a long time.
What property has he that could attachg was one
of the questions asked.
The lawyers reply was to the point orhe person to
whom you refer he wrote, died a year ago He has
Harper's Weekly.
good story is told Of dlsconcerting interruption
which Mr. Gladstone once experienced when addressing
woman suffrage meeting in Leeds In the course of
ms speeeh ne paid graceful compliment to the eo-
quenoe OF the ladies who had previously spoken and
further galanty remarked the great pleasure which
II gives lhe other sex to listen to women talking. paus-
ing for moment after this observation Gladstone
like his audience, thrown into unexpected state
ol t meIrment py male voice. which proceeded from
She back Of the oal and proclaimed in the broadest
Yorkshire dialect Eth lad, thoust moan wed yet 1
see st'-Westminster ST. Gazette
Senator Frank b Brandegee and ex- Governor Bukeev
were discussing with Hartford editor Con-
neetcut candidate for political honors
He is sure to fall said Senator Brandegee "He is be-
absurd speeches He reminds Of the man who want
ed 70 be trolley car conductor.
This man looked hearty. polite and intelligent and
the manager at the barns seemed to think well Of
nm , After number of questions the manager said:
The applicant gave a loud laugh Then he dug the
manager in the ribs and said:
A. on, meyer @ mind about the pay boss Just give the
job ana I'll have car Of my in or two 49,
Washington Star.
Wu Ting Fang who is to be his country's Ambassador
an washington again. mas many aCQuaintances
city Wu is very much OF American in his ways and
can tell story with the best the club reconteurs
recall one he told about mother law which is
extra funny, because the Chinese make so much of the
mother that her wife is her virtual slave.
Ihe parlor maid in the house a young married
couple said Wu, answered the doorbel one morning
ana little later went TO her mistress with you please
ma am the strangest lady is downstairs. won't give
hef name and she has taken of her hat and She
opened the two closets and peeed in ther then She
looked at the windows shook her hea and rt,bh5
her nand over the manel and the piano held up to
see the dust on it, and now she is-
Dear me, exclaimed the mistress my husbands
mother wasn't expected back from Texas tin December!
San Francisco Call
Amusing epitarhs common enough but n is NOT
olteh that tombstone inscription is meant to carry
business advertisement West Virginia man tells Of
singular one which may be in cemetery Of Wheel
ing. II was the idea OF a widow of a man named per
kns partner in commercial house known as perkins
4 Parker soon after the decease OF her snouss NJ
Perkins married Mr. Parker her late husbands husi-
ness associate 'NS "usi-
The inscription reads
sacred TO the memory Of James Perkins for thirt,,
years senior partner OF the firm Perkins & Parker
now Parker 4 Company~-Harper's Weekly
From North Carolina comes the following warn.
"A visitor was taken out what was apparently, h,s
hrst huht Tor quail In cotton field the dogs we're
Morng upon coNey the sportsman and his friond from
the North standing STILL when suddenly the ouau an,
peared between the rows OF running The visitor
raised MS gun to fire. whereupon his Raleigh friend
Don't shoot them runninri'
"z won't replied the visitor in a trsrrbi,,~ ,.,
IN waiting for them to stop" Forest ana Stream,