Show HUMORS OF SOME GREAT MEN MEM john murray in london lecture draws amusing pictures of william gladstone dean stanley the london correspondent of the 00 boston transcript speaking of a lecture delivered by the publisher mr john murray said baid mr air murray drew an amusing picture of 0 gladstone in bed the last time I 1 was at his house he said eald 1 I had bad breakfast early and alone as I 1 was going to scotland when I 1 had finished I 1 was told that mr Glad gladstone did not know that I 1 was waa leaving so early and that he wanted to have another talk with me I 1 went to his bedroom a very large room with a double bed in it gladstone was dressed in a might nightgown with a a brown shetland shawl round him lie he was lying flat on bis hi face his head bead at the foot of the bea and his feet on the pillows in one hand he held a cup of coffee and there was a book in the other I 1 shall never forget that interview and the comicality of the great lion head popping up as I 1 went toward him the lecturer next alluded to dean stanley whose writing was so bad that he could not read ft a letter he himself had written and whose contraction of jerusalem into jerus jerusie resulted in the compositors setting it up as jones two friends once dined with the tha dean and there was cold duchon the table the dean carved but he was so engrossed with the conversation that he first let the duck slip upon the table and then upon the floor one ot of tho the guests knowing that the duck was the only thing they had tor for luncheon shouted 1 I see a cat in the room ah said the dean you need not be afraid of the duck I 1 have my foot on it |