Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1880 — A New Play. [ARTICLE]

A New Play.

An amusing story is told of a wellknown literary man who stammers. He wrote a play, and insisted upon reading it to a manager, who listened with commendable patience. When he had finished, the manager said: “I am not sure but it is a good idea to have all the characters in the play stammer.” “But I didn’t intend they should,” replied the astonished author. Charles Merriam, of Springfield, Mass., the publisher of Webster’s dictionary, has built and fitted up a handsome library building for his native town of West Brookfield, Mass., and has given 500 shares of New York Central railroad stock, the interest on which is to be used for the purchase of books. The value of the whole gift is about $83,000.