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Show HE ARRIVED LATER. Colonel John S. Wise Did Not Meet General Gen-eral Sherman In Brazil. Everybody knows that Colonel Wise fought as a mere boy in the southern army, became a Republican after the war and ran an unsuccessful race for governor cf Virginia. He has been on the field of honor more than once, but no longer believes in the duello as he did in his younger days. While a Virginian Vir-ginian to the core still he is not a native of the Old Dominion. At that famous Astor House dinner a few years ago made memorable by the eulogy Mr. De-pew De-pew passed on President Cleveland, General W. T. Sherman, in the course of a very interesting speech, alluded to a trip made by him to California in 1846, via the cape. He stopped off at Rio Janeiro on Christmas eve to pay his respects to Hon. Henry A. Wise, at that time United States minister to Brazil, and was hospitably entertained. "What time did you leave the minister's minis-ter's house?" queried Colonel John S. Wise, who was one of the guests, interrupting inter-rupting General Sherman. "At 9 o'clock, Christmas eve, "responded "re-sponded old Tecumseh. "If you had just waited two hours longer, general, I'd have been glad to make your acquaintance," said Wise. Two hours later the young Wise made his first appearance on this terrestrial globe. Washington Post. |