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Show CLEVER LITTLE STOBXES. As a wit. Senator Hoar had few superiors, su-periors, though he believed the floor of the Senate not the place to display it. One of the occasions when he violated this rule was during a speech by William Wil-liam V. Allen of Nebraska, who made a record of talking for ten solid hours. Toward the end of a long speech "Pitchfork" "Pitch-fork" Tillman of South Carolina interrupted inter-rupted Senator Allen with a correction. He said that Allen pronounced ad infinitum infini-tum as if it were "ad tnnnny-tum." Allen contended that that was the proper way and appealed to Mr. Hoar as an authority. author-ity. The latter, of course, supported Tillman. Till-man. "But," he said. "I suppose the Senator from Nebraska gave the short sound to the 1' In order to save the ! time of the Senate." An Englishman who holds a Colonial Governorship, or similar office, loees the prestige that attaches to that office as soon as he arrives in England. In this connection a story is told of the Duchess of Devonshh-e and . Lord Crewe, then Lieutenant-Governor of Ireland. They were on the same boat going from Ireland Ire-land to England, and on the voyage she showed him all the deference due his rank. But she loved a Joke too dearly to miss the opportunity the landing offered. of-fered. As they were descending the (ang-plank (ang-plank she suddenly exclaimed in a peremptory per-emptory tone, as thourh addressing a boy of no Importance: ."Now, Bobble. Juat take hold of thla ba and run on ahead, like a good boy, and see that I have a compartment reserved." Down in Virginia the people used to set much store by their pedigreea. An anecdote an-ecdote Is told of the captain of a steamer plvlng at a. ferry from Maryland to Virginia, Vir-ginia, who, being asked by a needy Virginian Vir-ginian to give him a free passage across, inquired If the applicant belonged to one of the flret families of Virginia. "No," answered the man. "I can't exactly say that: rather to one of the second families.'' fami-lies.'' . "Jump on board," said the captain; cap-tain; "I never met one of ypur sort be-fore."-Chicago News. |