Show SALUTE FROM THE PRIVATE specially witty remark credited to representative alien representative john sharp will lams says that the wittiest utterance that ever he heard from private john alien for so long the wit ot the house was delivered one evening in a hotel lobby in washington dur ing the period of cleveland s second administration alien who was sur rounded by a party of friends eagerly listening to his stories was in bartic alne form he had paused la one of his yarns to salute vice dent stevenson as he passed the illinois statesman however did not perceive the greeting for with his head bowed apparently in deep tation and with his hands clasped behind him he strode on without a glance in the direction of alien s par ty gentlemen solemnly observed the private there you behold a man with nothing under his feet but moth er earth nothing on his mind but the longevity of the executive satur day evening post |