INSUFFERABLE.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1297, 28 November 1911, Page 11

INSUFFERABLE.

Surely "the limit" has boon reached in a story of •'souvenir hunting" related in tho current issuo of Ihn "Publishers' Circular." Tho mourners lit the fuuf-nil of tho'lnto"Mrs. Myrtle Reed M'Cnllough are said to. have carried ofl' 1000 dollars worth-of property from the house of tho deceased author. Their spoils included twelve specially-bound copies of her books, 125 spoons, ii gold jewelled buckle, a , silver jewelle'd chain,. and several pictures of. a convenient size; Tho report of these depredations -is- confirmed :by' Mr. M'Cuiiou-h. , : ■ -.' ■:.■■ Foreign men-of-war when visiting America have often been victims of this national weakness. At the time of tho Jamestown Exposition, (he Duke of the Abruzzi lost/'from his flagship a. gold aiid silver toilet sot and the gold bullous from some of his uniforms!.. When flio Japanese cruiser Chiloso was in New York Harbour, guests of the officers carried off ion valuable medals and decorations belonging to Lieutenant Mori. Prince Louis of Batteuberg's flagship, tho Drake, suffered so severely in the some way that when Ihe .sr|iuidron was about to leave Now York one of the officers, uuablc any longer to restrain his feelings, exclaimed, i'Thank Heaven, wo have saved our gnus.'" The distinguished American commander Rear-Admiral Evans once declared (hat the American "souvenir hunter" would sleal anything short of a cellar full of water. It: was apropos of this subject that the Springfield '■•Republican" once suggested that the national bird ought to be tho jackdaw.