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Show Clever Little Stories. I (Chicago News.) A member of the London postoffice department tells of an undelivered letter let-ter which, when opened, was found to contain a long list of sad troubles. But the writer struck one note of gladness at the end of the epistle in the sentence: sen-tence: "Thank God, the pig had ten young ones." The officials once had a letter addressed to "Uncle John, Hop-posite Hop-posite the Church, London', Hingland." This was not delivered, but another one was. It was addressed thus: "To my Sister Jean, up the Canongate, Pown a Close, Edinburgh. She has a wooden leg." The last part of the address was doubtless the clue. Jn the telegraph department of the British postoffice they get curious messages also. One young married man hurried to wire interesting in-teresting news to his wife's relatives. In his haste he announced: "Twins today; to-day; more tomorrow." Gladstone, when Beerbohm Tree, the actor and manager, was introduced to him, hardly knew upon what topic to converse with him, but at length asked Tree's opinion as to the politics of the stage, whether it is .as a rule liberal or conservative. "Well, sir," said Tree, wickedly, "I really have not studied the question, but I think the actors are mostly conservative." "Dear me!" replied re-plied Gladstone. "I wonder whether there is any exception to that rule?" "I should say," replied Tree, "that the scene shifters are radical to a man!" Here is a story that comes from Moscow; Mos-cow; Along one of the prettiest streets, where sledges were running in the snow, a newly married lady walked with her husband: An impulsive young, lady coming past at the time and seeing see-ing them, broke away from her husband hus-band and shouted, "Gorky! It is the great Maxim .Gorky! Welcome to Moscow!" Mos-cow!" Not content with directing attention at-tention in this way to the novelist, she flung herself into his arms and exclaimed: ex-claimed: "Renowned Maxim Gorky, let me give you a kiss for your-last drama. It is a model, as you will be." If this had really been. Gorky" it would have been sufficiently embarrassing, but as it happened the novelist was hundreds of miles away and, as appeared when the police had succeeded in carrying the whole party to the station, the person who was thus publicly embraced had no connection whatever with either novels or drama. As a matter of fact, the disturbance dis-turbance arose because of an assault which his wife there and then began upon4Maxim Gorky's fair disciple. |
