After dinner stories by famous men : . essor wrote on the blackboardin his laboratory Professor Blank informs hisstudents that he has this day been ap])ointed hon-orary physician to his Majesty, King George. During tlie morning he liad some occasion toleave the room and found on his return that somestudent wag had added the words, God save the King. 40 After Dinner Stories SENATOR WILLIAMO. BRADLEY, of Ken-tucky, tells this goodyarn: Last fall there diedin Louisville a lawyerwho, for years, hadshocked a large numberof friends by his ratherliberal views touchingreligion. A friend ofthe deceased
After dinner stories by famous men : . essor wrote on the blackboardin his laboratory Professor Blank informs hisstudents that he has this day been ap])ointed hon-orary physician to his Majesty, King George. During tlie morning he liad some occasion toleave the room and found on his return that somestudent wag had added the words, God save the King. 40 After Dinner Stories SENATOR WILLIAMO. BRADLEY, of Ken-tucky, tells this goodyarn: Last fall there diedin Louisville a lawyerwho, for years, hadshocked a large numberof friends by his ratherliberal views touchingreligion. A friend ofthe deceased who cutshort a hunting trip to fT^ hurry back to the city [ St for the purpose of at- ^L;,^- tending the last rites ^g^fc* for his colleague, en- tered the late lawyers home some few minutesafter the beginning of the service. * What part of the service is this ? he inquiredin a whisper of another legal friend who was stand-ing in the crowded hallway. Ive just come myself, the other replied, butI believe theyve opened for the defencCo. GOVERNOR DENEEN, of Illinois, is not a vege-tarian. Neither is he at all in sympathy with themovement, as this story of his indicates: One day, said the governor, I overheard aconversation in a Springfield restaurant that pleasedme mightily. Two persons, a man and a woman By Famous ISIen 41 •— both evidently strangers^ however — sat nearme. She was a vegetarian, and, glancing at hisplate, took occasion to warn him against making agraveyard of his stomach. But, i^rotcsted the man, smiling politely, Iseldom eat meat. You have ordered eggs, she said tartly, andan egg is practically the same as meat. It even-tually becomes a chicken. The kind of eggs I eat never become chickens,remarked the stranger quietly. * Impossible, she exclaimed. What kind ofeggs do you eat ? Boiled eggs, replied the stranger. TOO many of us, says August Belmont, arelike the trustee who expected his great-uncle toleave him his fortune of five thousand dollars. Thegreat-u
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