Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1887 — Remote Acquaintance. [ARTICLE]

Remote Acquaintance.

Goldsmith wrote of a certain pretentious woman: The King himself has followed her, When she has walked before. The following incident reminds one of the woman. A lady intimated that she was personal y acquainted with the poet, Henry W. Longfellow. “When did you meet him?” asked a friend. “Oh—l—l,” was the somewhat confused reply, “I—that is, I didn’t exact y meet him myself, but I walked out of church one day with a woman who liod met him, and she told me all about him. ” Her degree of acquaintanceship was about equal to that; of a woman who felt that she “really knew the Queen.” A foreign minister was once persuaded, against his better judgment, to introduce a countrywoman at the court of one of the continental nations. It is not a part of an A merican minister’s duty to act as social sponsor for ambitious nobodies, or to introduce at court people who do not know how to behave when they get there. But the Queen received the woman kindly, and the matter promised to end well, when imagine the Minister’s horror on hearing, in reply to the Queen’s courteous greeting, the woman say, “I really feel as if I had known you a long time. You know we go to the same chiropodist!” Carl Otto Schoenrich, Captain Oriole Yacht Club, Baltimore, Md., writes: “The club, during practLe cruise, used St. Jacobs Oil, and it cur jd sjveral cases of sprains and bruises.” Sold by druggists and dealers everywhere.