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Show Short Ttrjonal Siorii-t. Mark Twain tells thus the atory of hla first great London banquet, at which, by the way, there were ti0 or 00 guests. He admits that, not having hav-ing been used to that kind of dinner, he felt somewhat lonesome. "Th lord mayor, or somebody, resd out a list of th chief guests before we began to eat When he came to prominent Barnes the other guests would applaud. I found the man next to me rather a good talker. Just as we got up an Interesting In-teresting subject there wss a tremendous tremend-ous clapping of hands. I had hardly var heard auch applause before. I Straightened up and set to clapping with the rest, and I noticed a good many people round me fixing their attention at-tention on me, and some of them laughing In a friendly and encouraging encourag-ing way. I moved about In my chair and elapped louder than ever. " 'Who la it?' I asked the gentleman on my right. " 'Samuel Clemens, hotter known In England as Mark Twain.' be replied. "I stopped clapping. The Ufa seemed to go out of ma. I never waa In such a fix In all toy days." Mrs. Edwin Gould la one of the most ardent collectors In America and at one time she declared that If she could only get hold of the club with which Cain pommeled Abel she would be the happiest of women. On a recent visit to New Orleans she explored the French quarter of that elty and was rewsrd'jd by finding numerous relics ef dsya long before Andrew Jackaon whipped the British there. She also picked up many valuable article dating dat-ing back to the Napoleonic pnrlod, one being a solid sliver piece wh.ch once had been the property of Jerome Bonaparte.. Bona-parte.. ... About a year ago Mrs. Alfred Hcher-merhorn, Hcher-merhorn, a society woman of Brooklyn, Brook-lyn, lost her fortune In speculation. Nearly all of ber swell friends manifested mani-fested such strong disposition to drop her acquaintance that Mrs. Schermer-horn Schermer-horn look the initiative by dropping theirs, and being a woman of aenae began be-gan to look arotiud for some means of self-support. She hit upon the Idea of operating a laundry and opened aucb an establishment In Southampton, U I., where the faithful among her former form-er frlenda are helping to make the venture ven-ture a auccess. |