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Show i PAID THEM IN THEIR OWN COIN. Newsier Men Retaliate on Bullae.. Men Who Had Ignored Them. At the celebration of the arrival of a new German steamship the other day, cards were sent to the leading shipping firms and the newspaper offices. A jolly L i en ilmost entirely Ge5. turned the affair into a great merry inaiunjr in which they ignored the newspaper news-paper men-or so nearly ignored them as to be very rude indeed. After the coffee was served speeches were made, all in German. When there was nothing eJse to do and nobody left to talk, a German remarked that there were some newspaper newspa-per men present and that although he supposed not any of them had understood what had been going on the rest would like to hear from them. In response to that invitation a cultivated culti-vated young gentleman representing one of the dailies arose and made an elo-quent elo-quent address in pure and brilliant Spanish. Span-ish. The Germans stared at him in amazement and could not understand a word he said. When he sat down there arose a mild mannered, studious looking reporter of another of the morning papers pa-pers who proceeded to deliver a speech entirely in Latin. The Germans stared still harder, and rude and discourteous as they had shown themselves it was evident that they began to have qualms of conscience. When the second reporter sat down a third one, a handsome gray haired man, somewhat famous in general gen-eral literature, found his feet and proceeded pro-ceeded to express some interesting sentiments senti-ments in the pure and scholastic German which he had learned at Heidelberg. . As he finished and was about to sit down he remarked to the merchants and steamship men that it was a mistake for them to think that he had not understood under-stood them during the course of their selfish monopoly of the occasion; that, as a matter of fact, in spite of their defective de-fective grammar and clumsy diction, he thought he had understood every word they had said. Julian Ralph in Chatter. |
