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GOT HIS SHIRTS
Comical Prank a Princeton Student
Played Upon a Tutor
In Princeton Old and New by
James W Alexander Is the following
story
The mode of life was simpler in
those days than now but the same hu
mor which still makes collegians so
comic effervesced in the old days
When for example William Penning
ton son of a former governor of New
Jersey and himself afterward speaker
of the national house of representa
tives roomed next door to Senior Tu
tor Topping it was the custom for
each man to hang on the outside knob
of his door the bag containing his soil
ed clothes for the laundry
Penninirton stuffed his own skirts
one day in Tutor Toppings bag and
waited for the day when the clean lin
en was returned and laid out on Top
pings bed Then knowing that two
of the younger tutors were in Top
pings room Pennington knocked at
his door On entering he put on an
embarrassed air as if hesitating to
speak In the presence of the other tu
tors
Topping in a lofty way said These
gentlemen are my friends I have no
secrets from them Say what you
wish Pennington still hemmed and
hawed but again urged to speak blurt
ed out It Is not my fault Mr Top
ping I did not want to say anything
about It now but as you insist I must
ask you to please return the skirts I
lent you as I am in need of them
Toppings rage and horror at being
thus addressed before the younger tu
tors who looked up to him as a Mag
nus Apollo may well be imagined He
began to upbraid Pennington who In
terrupted him by saying Its no use
Mr Topping trying to deny the fact
I see the shirts there on the bed with
your own things The tutor stood
aghast but Pennington stepped to the
bed and picked out his own shirts
marked with his name
ST LOUIS GOLD MINE
Traces of the Metal Once Found With
in the City Limits
St Louis bas never been known as -a
gold mining center but there was once
a gold mine within the limits of the
city and what is more it yielded gold
which is more than a great many gold
mines in the Rockies have done
In the sixties of the last century
there was a well dug on a hill just
east of Carondelet park and the well
diggers noticing some bright spar
kling yellow particles In the clay at
the bottom did a little hashing on
their own account and found several
grains of gold in the pan The news
soon got abroad and two ex miners
from the west who were living in the
neighborhood quickly got the idea that
there was money to be made in St
Louis gold mining so they sank a shaft
not far from the well fully expecting
rich returns from their work They
did actually find gold but in quanti
ties so small that they estimated a
vleld of about 15 cents per ton of clay
so they filled up the hole and gave up
the undertaking in that place as a bad
job
But they had all the miners enthu
siasm and the fact that they found
gold at all merely stimulated their zeal
to try in another place so they went
to the side of a hill where the Glaize
creek had washed away the earth and
made a clay precipice They dug a hole
there where they also found traces of
the nrecious metal but in no greater
quantities than before Then they went
up the creek about a quarter of a mile
and sank another shaft with no better
result They spent the whole spring
and summer digging holes around in
the neighborhood of the park but the
only benefit they realized from their
work was the sobriquet two luna
tics and people laughed at them so
much that both left and went back
west where digging holes in the search
for golC was taken more seriously than
In St Louis St Louis Globe-Democrat
Theater Seats
The seats were in the orchestra on
the theaters left The left side of the
house always sells out first said the
box office man Everybody seems to
prefer it to the right I dont know
why Boxes especially we can sell
two left to one right box every time
Nobody takes the right side for choice
And there is no reason for this As
much goes on In the right extremity of
the stage as In the left we proprietors
always look after that and you see
just as much from the right as from
the left side Why then is the left
side always at a premium New Or
leans Times Democrat
The Name Bismarck
Few people know how Bismarck and
his ancestors got their name Bis
marck is the name of one of those
ancient castles a short distance from
Stendal on the road from Cologne to
Berlin in the center of the old mar
quisate of Brandenburg The castle
had this name because it defended the
marca or the line where the river
Biese formed a boundary in former
times or mark of defense against in
truders hence the name of Bismarck
When Greek Meets Greek
Gracious my dear said the first
society belle I do hope youre not ill
you look so much older tonight
Im quite well thank you dear re
plied the other And you how won
derfully improved you are You look
positively young Philadelphia Press
Facts are Gods arguments We
should be careful never to misunder
stand or pervert them Edwards
Nothing is so new as what has long
been forgotten German Proverb
FRANK MINfSTER WU
The Shrewd Chinese Diplomat and Hli
interesting Ways
The return of Wu Ting Fang to this
country as the representative of tut
Chinese emperor has been ascribed ic
part to the popularity lie achieved wltli
the American people and cspeclallj
with the American press Althougb
he Is not of very high rank and has
not held other diplomatic posts of flrsl
Importance he won a reputation while
in America before as a diplomat of nc
mean ability Ills course during the
Boxer insurrection especially commend
ed 1dm to the government and people
of this country as a man of force char
acter and integrity His sense of hu
mor has often been a help to Ministei
Wu and has sometimes helped him out
of embarrassing situations
The Celestial diplomat takes aftei
the late LI Hung Chang in being a
good questioner lie is sometimes In-
WU TING FANG
quisitive too in respect to matters
which Americans generally regard as
their private affairs Unmarried wo
men are usually afraid of him He
Invariably asks them why they dont
get married If he meets a married
woman he asks her how many chil
dren she has and if she has none at
all he expresses surprise and wants
to know the reason One day during
his previous service at Washington
Minister Wu was visited by a news
paper correspondent who seemed to re
gard himself as a great man Before
he had learned anything whatever
from the minister the latter was ply
ing him with his usual questions
When the query as to the amount of
his weekly stipend was put the corre
spondent heaved up his chest stroked
his mustache with pride and prepared
to astonish the simple Celestial
One hundred and fifty dollars a
week he exclaimed
It is too much came quick as a
shot from the ministers lips it is
altogether too much You are not
worth more than 25 a week
Later on by dint of cross examina
tion of other newspaper men Mr Wu
learned that his 150 a week visitor
had prevaricated to the extent of about
90 the week The next time this gen
tleman called at the legation and sent
his card to the minister he was ac
corded an audience but the first thing
the minister said to him was
You lied to me about your salary
If you will lie about such a thing as
that you will lie about anything I do
not trust you I have nothing to tell
you I want to revise my former esti
mate of your value Instead of beiu j
worth 25 a week you are not worth
anything sir Good day
CARDINAL VANNUTELLI
Italian Prelate Now on a Visit to the
United States
One of the most learned and eminent
of the cardinals of the Roman Catho
lic church Is the Italian ecclesiastic
who will preside at the fourth eucha
ristic congress of that church In Pitts
burs Cardinal Vincenzo Vannutelli
The congress will be in session from
Oct 15 to 17 and will attract national
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CARDINAL VINCENZO VANNUTELLI
interest Cardinal Vannutelli has just
come from Metz where he was papal
delegate to a similar congress
The cardinal was born in 1S315 and
was invested with the scarlet robe
which marks a prince of the church In
1SS9 He belongs to an old Roman
family and is a brother of the Cardinal
Perafino Vannutelli who was promi
tently mentioned as the successor of
ho late Pope Leo XIII
STAGE FRIGHT
Actors Have Been Known to Dlo From
the Malady
rerhnps the most terrible malady
which can attack the actor in the
course of his performance In the pe
culiar discrete known ns stage fright
Through its evil effects strong men and
women have been known to faint
break down and do many other queer
things and there are even on record
several cases of people who have died
through this horrible seizure
Some years ago a young novice who
was to appear for the first time ar
rived at the theater very white and
shaky Brandy being given him he
appeared slightly better but no sooner
had he set his foot on the stage than
he clapped his hand to his heart with
a low cry and fell down dead The
overwhelming sensation Induced by
stage fright had attacked his heart
and his theatrical career ended thus
even at its beginning
Quite as ghastly was the case of the
young amateur actress who strangely
enough had never experienced stage
fright when playing with her fellow
amateurs but who was seized with the
attack on making her first professional
appearance She went through the
scene aided by the prompter her eyes
glazed her hands rigid and when the
exit came it proved her exit from lifes
stage as well as the mimic boards for
she staggered to her dressing room and
fell into a comatose state from which
she never recovered
Ferhaps however the most peculiar
Instance of all was that of the veteran
performer who had gone through thirty
years of stage work without experienc
ing this malady One night however
he confided to a fellow player that a
quite unaccountable nervousness had
suddenly taken hold of him and that ho
did not think he could ever act again
His comrade laughed at the notion
and urged him to go on as usual but
his astonishment may well be conceiv
ed when the poor old player went on
the stage and after making several
vain efforts to speak fell back and ex
pired The doctor who made the post
mortem examination stated that death
was due to failure of the hearts action
evidently induced by the presence of
an attack of stage fright Pearsons
Weekly
TYBURN TREE
Lord Ferrers Tragic Journey to the
Famous Old Gallows
Park lane was Tyburn lane and it
seems as if the gallows described in
an old document as movable at one
time stood at its east corner It was
there the ferocious Lord Ferrers was
huns in 17G0 for murdering his serv
ant Ilorace Walpoles words paint
the picture well lie shamed heroes
He bore the solemnity of a pompous
and tedious procession of above two
hours from the Tower to Tyburn with
as much tranquillity as if he were only
going to his own burial not to his own
execution And when one of the
dragoons of the procession was thrown
from his horse Lord Ferrers expressed
much concern and said I hope there
will be no death today but mine
On went the procession with a mob
about it sufficient to make its progress
slow and laborious Small wonder that
the age of Thackeray with Thack
erays help set up its scaffolds within
four high walls Asking for drink
Lord Ferrers was refused for said the
sheriff late regulations enjoined him
not to let prisoners drink while pass
ing from the place of imprisonment to
that of execution great indecencies
having been committed by the drunk
enness of the criminals in the hour of
execution And though said he my
lord I might think myself excusable
in overlooking this order out of regard
to your lordships rank yet there is an
other reason which I am sure will
weigh with you your lordship is sen
sible of the greatness of the crowd
we must draw up at some tavern the
confluence would be so great that it
would delay the expedition which
your lordship seems so much to de
sire But decency so often paraded
by those who outrage it ended with
the murderers death The execution
ers fought for the rope and the one
who lost it cried the greatest tragedy
to his thinking of the day London
Sketch
When to Lift Your Hat
In answer to the question Please
tell when and where are or is the cor
rect time for a gentleman to lift or re
move his hat we reply Without con
sulting authorities of etiquette in fact
giving It to you offhand so to speak
we should say at the following times
and on the following occasions re
spectively the hat should be lifted or
removed as circumstances indicate
When mopping the brow when taking
a bath when eating when going to
bed when taking up a collection when
having the hair trimmed when being
shampooed when standing on the
head Wichita Kan Beacon
A Curious Anomaly
Until a few years ago the Philippine
Islanders held their Sunday on the day
which was Monday to the inhabitants
of the neighboring island of Borneo
This curious anomaly arose from the
historic fact that the Philippines were
discovered by Spanish voyagers com
ing from the east round Cape Horn
while Borneo was discovered by Por
tucruese coming from the west and sail
ors lose or gain a day according to
their direction in crossing the Paciflc
His Title
Papa said little Tames what do
they call a man who writes comic
operas a composer
No my son the old man answered
he is usually called a plagiarist
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