ABOUT FAMOUS PEOPLE.

Shannon News, 10 June 1924, Page 4

ABOUT FAMOUS PEOPLE.

SUCH IS FAME. About the time -when the exploits of Charles Peace, the super-burglar, set all England talking, Disraeli and Lord Salisbury returned from Berlin after a great diplomatic victory. When, the two statesmen addressed a meeting witih a huge banner suspended above their heads bearing the legend, "Peace with Honour," an old lady gravely inquired which of.the two was Peace, and which was Honour! , PROBABLY AN ANCESTOR. A pleasing story is told of the library at Eaton Hall, the scene of a recent alarming fire, in'the days before the head of Grosvenor left off being a marquis and became a duke. A party of visitors were being shown over the house. In the library thoy paused before a bust, and one of them asked who it . represented. f "Marciii Aufelius," said th guide. "Ah, said the inquirer, "that would be father of the present markis?" "HON. GENTS." Mr. T. M. Wilford, Leader of the Opposition, is credited with tills jibe against politicians. A man and his small son were walking along Palace Yard when they saw a clergyman in his robes passing ,into Westminster Hall. "Oh," father, who is that gentleman?" said the son. , "That is the chaplain of the House of Commons going to read the prayers." "Does he pray for the members?" "No my boy. He looks at the members and prays a for the Empire." CLEVER DR WILSON. Humour did not desert Dr. Woodrow Wilson when he became a chronic invalid —for, when a friend came to see him, he jocosely described himself as "the 'statesman who invented the Fourteen Points, and was made to sit on them all." He had a strong dislike for Mr. Orpheus.C. Kerr (officeseeker). When a well paid official died and the latter asked if he might take his place. Dr. Wilson replied: "I have no objection whatever, if you can fix up with the undertaker." ROOSEVELT REX. When one talks about absent-mind-ed professors Woodrow Wilson seemed to have been an exception. No one ever accused him of being absentminded. On-the other hand, Theodore Roosevelt, though not really absent--minded, had an unusual power of concentration which often caused him to answer questions when suddenly interrupted, without having understood" the question. One one occasion when he was deep in the preparation of a speech, the little Roosevelts all trooped into the study and cried in one voice: "We'yjj come to say good night, daddy." Roosevelt replied: "Wait until to-morrow morning; I'm much too busy now." A.FREE RIDE. Senator Borah, a distinguished American, was talking on European politics. "Italy." he said, "is the one country that I watch with interest! be-S cause she is, the one Power which isstill on the fence. Italy reminds me of a small neighbour I used to have. This little chap's parents did not own a car, and whenever I went to the garage to get mine,, little Billy was usually right at my heels, waiting to be asked to ride. One morning, ing to tease him, I said: 'I see you have yo.ur hat and coat on; you must be going somewhere.' 'Oh, I gets ready,'* he said, 'and then, I don't keep people" waiting what asks me to go Shall I get in?"