Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1908-07-09
A Noisy 0neration-

iNoiSy SPeFdIlOns
A noted English suffragist was de-
scribing at a dinner a very disorderly
suffragette meeting. 1.-The noise" she
said, "can only be likened to the hub.
bub that l once heard coming from
the nursery of a friend with whom /
was taking tea. Terrified by this in
fernal turmoil, my friend and burst
into the nursery breathless. The chill.
dren, In a close group by the window,
the baby in the middle, looked up
calmly.
What on earth are you doing?' the
mother demanded.
"'We've found said the Oldest boy.
poor grandma's teeth, and we're filing
them down and fitting them on the
baby" -.
A Historic Old College.
The first Greek letter society-Phi
Beta Kappa-was organized at William
and Mary in 1776, and among the char
ter members were John Marshall. chief
justice, and Bushrod Washington, asso-
ciate justice, Of the supreme court:
Spencer Roane, who was considered
the ablest jurist ever produced in Viz
glnla; John Brown and Stephen T.
Mason, senators from Virginia; Will
liam Short, minister to Spain and Hol-
land. and Elisha Parmalee, a native of
Massachusetts, who established chap
tiers at Yale and Harvard when he re-
turned home. William and Mary was
the first college to adopt the elective
system of study and the honor system
in the government of it's students.
Dangers of a Diary.
The Tichborne claimant. Arthur Or
ton, kept a diary in the days when he
also kept Il bush public house in the
back blocks of Australia and meditat-
ed between drinks on the best way to
secure for himself the Tichborne titles
and estates. In it during il momentary
fit of alteration he scrubbed the now
world famous words: Some men has
plenty money and no brains, and some
men has plenty brains and no money.
Surely men with plenty money and no
brains were made for men with plenty
brains and no money!" This diary
came into the possession of the prose.
cution, who obtained it from a friend
of Orton's named Cox, and it's produc.
ton in court sealed his fate.-London
Tit-Bits. +@.''-
A Noble Scot. ~ses'
William Carstairs was William HIS
chief counselor in ecclesiastical mat
tiers. What Il noble man this sturdy
Scot was. An Episcopalian curate who
had been ousted from his parish and
was a thorough i~rreconcilable called
upon him one day by appointment. He
. was then principal of Edinburgh uni
versity. He found C~arstairs in d rage.
His tailor had sent in Il misfitting suit.
He threw the clothes about the room
and then, looking at his visitor, thought
that they would fit him. Would he
not take them as q sort of atonement
for the i'll temper which he had shown?
The next day the visitor came back to
restore a ten pound note which he had
found in the coat pocket. NO" said
the principal. when you took the
coat you had Il right to all that was in
it." Carstairs had planned the whole
affair.-From 1.-The Scot Of the Eight
zenith Century," by John Watson, D. D.
Curate-I haven't seen your husband
at church recently, Mrs. Bloggs. What
is he doing? Mrs. Bloggs-'E be a do
in six months. ~sir.-London Opinion.
Tess-Why, Bess used to be hand in
glove with him.
Tom-Say rather hand in mitten."
She gave him the latter and withdrew
the hand.-Philadelpbia Press.