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Show Hardly a Compliment. In the excitement of the moment public speakers often say the opposite of what they mean to convey, and "when Henry Irving gave a reading in the Ulster hall, in 1878," says Bram Stoker, In "Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving," "one speaker made is pretty an Irish bull as . could be found, though the bull is generally supposed sup-posed to belong to - other provinces than the hard-headed Ulster. In descanting des-canting on. the many "virtues' of the ruest of the evening he mentioned the excellence of his moral nature and rectitude rect-itude of his private life in these terms: "Mr. Irving, sir. Is a gentle- jman what leads a life of unbroken jblemish.' " |