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Show v HEARD AT 1VOXDERLAXD. A Lecturer Who Was Twelve Hours Late in His Bearings. The lecturer who explains the various sights of interest in Wonderland was reciting recit-ing the biography of Charles Stewart Parnell, Par-nell, whose wax figure stands majestically between the bewhiskered figure of Balmaceda Balma-ceda and William E. Gladstone, last night to a large audience of interested listeners. With a streak of pathos in his voice, he painted a word pieture of pristine brilliancy on how "the cable had informed us of the death of Ireland's uncrowned king this morning at 10 o'clock." With an oblique angle in his discourse, dis-course, he referred to the 'marvels of the cable how the intelligence was hurried across the dark blue herring pond on a flash of lightning, etc. Then he about faced andsaid: "But you will read about it in the morning papers." "We've already read about it," exclaimed several voices, "in the evening papers." The lecturer hid his embarrassment em-barrassment by attracting the attention of the ffudienee to the wax figure of a gentle-I gentle-I man who was recently celebrated in song because be-cause of a trip he took to the bottom of the sea dressed in a suit of new clothes. |