Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1894 — Holmes' Witticisms. [ARTICLE]

Holmes' Witticisms.

When the late Dr. Holmes was at a dinner party once in England, Mrs. Siddona was being discussed. Home one said that the statesman Fox had been smitten by tne groat actress. Holmes said that from all ho had heard of her he could not understand a man falling in love with her. She was too grand; it was like falling in love with the pyramids. Perhaps the worshipful company of clothmakers or board of aiderman might have loved her, but one man-never. It was Holmes who remarked, with affected gravity: “11 eally mutt not smoke so persistently, i must turn over a new leaf—a tobacco leaf— and have a cigar only after each*—here he paused, as if to say 'meal,” but he continued—“after each cigar.” When the smile ran around the table, he leaned back in his chair and said; “A foreigner is ah alien; a foreigner who drinks too much is a bacchanalian, and may not a foreigner who smokes too much bo callod u tobaeconallan?” Cnee, when be had been heavily lionized and inobbad by a deputation of rough men from the far West, and some one asked him if he did not en oy it: “Enjoy it!” he exclaimed: “I felt like the small elephant at the Zoo, with a cheap excursion par.y on its back.”