The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-07-02
Anecdotes Concerning
WeII-KnOWn People

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starve than eat the steak the local |
butcher sent in this morning, and |
the tattooed man fell into a mill pond
half an hour ago and smeared up all
his beautiful designs and will have to
be sent back to New York to be re-
decorated
~
Hon. John Barrett, director of the
International Bureau of American Re
publics, and an ex.newspaperman of
wide note, has this "shoptalk" story
for the regalement of his friends
A reporter, on being directed to in
terview a visiting English traveller,
was told that after that distinguished
persons name should be placed the
letters, IN. I. c. E."-Member of the
Institute of Civil Engineers.
That's easy to remember" thought
the scribe, M. I. c. E. spells mice
can't forget that"
w llCll Ills NODN CGlllC W lllG CullOl
desk, however, Sir Robert Blanks
name bore after it the astonishing let
ters, "R. A. T. s."
when Mark Twain came to Wash
ington to try and get a decent copy
right law passed, a representative
took him out one afternoon to Chevy
Chase" said a correspondent.
Mark Twain refused to play golf
himself, but he consented to walk
over the course and watch the repre-
sentative's strokes.
, "The representative was rather a
duffer. Tee-ing off, he sent clouds of
earth flying in all directions. Then,
, to hide his confusion, he said to his
, guest:
. what do you think of our links
S here, Mr.. Clemons?
"'Best ever tasted said Mark
: Twain, as he wiped the dirt from his
' lips with his handkerchief"
~
Or. Doyen fought a duel with a
f Belgian while I was on the Riviera"
). said a Chicago surgeon. you've
3 heard of Doyen? His latest is a serum
that, increasing ten-fold the energy of
n our white blood corpuscles, wards off
s. old age.
t We'll, we gave him, we sawbones,
a a supper at the Cercle de la Mediter-
rance in Nice after his duel He
i won the duel, you know And in his
> after-supper' speech he told us how
I he had said to the Belgian as he ran
Q him through:
"'You lucky dog! I'd charge any
other man $4,000 francs for an abdo
= minal incision like this. And yet, by
+, Jove, you don't look overpleased. d."
Edward H. Crump, mayor Of Mem
. phis, praised, in a recent address
l.. those charities that send Stun chill
n dren to the country in the hot wea
" Their.
10 THE pale, lean urchins of the
v sums" said Mayor Crump, "show il
m quaint ways how strange they are t.
v the country and its charms.
IL Thus a little country weeker, OF
r leaving the train at Green willows
W ran ahead of his companions over thu
er meadows He soon came running bacl
again, shouting excitedly:
"Hey, fellers, come here, quick
ne Here's a field of shrimps!
a THE field to which he pointed wa
Sc planted in wheat"
in ~
ly Col. H. ~ Renouf, at the COX
1T, Guard" banquet at De;monicos, toll
he an instructive story about summe
vacations.
ce 81 said to a man the other day." h
began, Well, are you going to sen
he your wife to the seashore again thi
er summer?
IN ono sir, I'm not said he, can
afford it.
id "'But your wife's so economical
y, observed. You told me that she spen
lid very little at the shore last year
"'Yes, know said he, but, HON
er alone, spent over a hundred
To- week."
NIX 40
ny The Secretary of Agriculture, in a
as address in Washington. said of farm
ing:
l"' THE successful farmer loves h
work, Every detail of it interes
NY him. Thus Squire Plowlands prove
u" himself a poor theologian but a graz
farmer when he met, one Sunda