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Show ABOUT PERSONS AND THINGS. Ed Green, the Texas railroad man. j and son of Hetty Green, has become a I practical florist. : Mrs. Sylvia Langdon Dunham ot Southingtoii. Conn., has begun her lOCth year and is "still spry." i f On his recent visit to Paris, the shah of Persia was fanned night and day by relays? of perspiring attendants. f Harold Speed, the London artist, who is a bit of a dandy as well as a wit. sa3's: "Look a fool, but don't be one.'' Mrs. Astor is sa:d to be the most methodical woman in society.- If her dinner is announced at 8 o'clock it begins be-gins on the dot. Bret Harte's daughter, Ethel, is living liv-ing in London. Her health is? seriously undermined and a number of literary people are to raise a fund for her. . Vine Hovey, a railroad agent at Forest. For-est. Ky.. will shortly resign after forty years of service. He has never asked or accepted a leave of absence. Henry H. Rogers, of the Standard Oil company, is a Yankee, having been born in Fairhaven. Mass.,- and has little or none of the Yankee proverbial stinginess. stingi-ness. 4 William Schaus of Twickenham. England Eng-land and New Y'ork, is to present the United States National museum with a collection of South American moths, embracing some 60,000 specimens. f- 1 John Lafarge, jr.. son of the artist, i has just been ordamed to the priesthood priest-hood of the Catholic church at Innsbruck, Inns-bruck, Austria. He was graduated at Harvard and studied abroad for several ye ars. PI is work will be in America. 4 One of the rooms of the czar's palace at Tsarskoe, near St. Petersburg, has walls of lapis lazuli and a Moor of ebony-inland ebony-inland with mother of pearl. Another room has walls of carved amber, and the- sides of a third are laid with beaten gold. Seumas MeManus and Dr. Douglas Hyde, two of the leading literary men of Ireland and of Europe, will be heard on the lecture platform in the United States the coming season. Dr. Hyde is the president of the Gaelic League and is the author of a "Literary History His-tory of Ireland." MeManus a few jears ago jumped into fame by his writings in magazines on Irish folklore, folk-lore, etc. A delegate from Iowa to the Christian Endeavor convention in Baltimore was heard giving his views on long sermons. ser-mons. He said they were like a wagon wheel. His audience did not catch the meaning of his remark, and he was asked to explain. "Why," he said, "the longer the spoke the greater the tire." A Scotch minister instructed his clerk who sat among the congregation during dur-ing service, to give a low whistle if anything in his sermon appeared to be exaggerated. On hearing the minister say, "In those days there were snakes, fifty feet long," the clerk gave a subdued sub-dued whistle. "J should have said thirty feet," added add-ed the minister. Another whistle from the clerk. "On consulting Thompson's CoiVovd-ance." CoiVovd-ance." said the minister, in confusn, "I see the length is twenty feet." Still another whistle, whereupon the preacher leaned over and said in a stage whisper, "Ye can whistle as much as ye like, MacPherson. but I'll no take anither foot off for anybody." Harpers Har-pers Weekly. A Frenchman was boasting that he had thoroughly mastered the English language, when he was asked to write from dictation the following specimen of our choice eccentric vernacular: "As Hugh Hughes was hewing a Yule log from a yew tree, a man dressed in garments of a dark hue came up to Hugh and said. 'Have you f?een mv ewes?' To which he replied. 'If you will wait until T hew this yew, I will go with j-ou to look for your ewes.' " After an attempt, the Frenchman admitted ad-mitted his mistake. He used to imagine he was used to English sneaking, but he would be more careful how he used the language in future. London Tit-Bits. Tit-Bits. J |