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Show WAS NOT THE QUEEN. Colored Lady Astonished at Request for Autograph. A good many pages in tho Houso nnd Senate nro Industrious collectors of autographs. Congressman Shattuc of Cincinnati always has some harmless harm-less practical joke In mind, so the other day when ho met ono of theso autograph (lends ho said: "I Just passed Lllluokalanl, tho former queen of Hawaii, on her way to tho Senate. You ought to get hor name ln your book," A monet later, album In hand, the lad was dashing through tho corridor cor-ridor trying to locate tho dusky queen. In tho woman's reception room of the Senate ho approached a portly colored woman, decked out In flaming nttlro. n big red hat and n plentiful Bupply of Jewelry. "Would you pleaso glvo mo our autograph?" asked tho page. "What you mean, chile?" Inquired the supposed queen Indignantly. "Ain't on Queen LUIuokalant?" "No, Indeed, In-deed, honey. I'so Martha Washington Syfax, from Virginia, nnd I'so looking fo' my member, Mr. Hlxey Of Cul poper county." |