Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1898 — Thumping the Premier. [ARTICLE]

Thumping the Premier.

Cowper thought lightly of the man who “proves, by thumping on your back, the sense of your great merit.” But the dignified, pynlefli prime minister of Great Britain once enjoyed Such a “thumping.” The New York Tribune tells the story: At a public convention in London the other day one of the delegates, noticing, as he supposed, a friend, hurried up to him, and giving him a hearty slap on the back, said: “Hello, old boy! Politics continues to agree-with you, eh?” The portly man turned slowly around, and revealed the distinguished features of the Marquis of Salisbury, who said, smiling pleasantly: “Yes, thank you; politics does continue to agree with me." The delegate was horror-struck at his mistake, mumbled a confused apology and beat a hasty retreat. It Is holieyed that the prime minister must have enjoyed the joke very much, for later in the evening he was seen to he relating to Several friends some incident which provoked hirn and them' to a great deal of laughter. Arthur Nlktsch, the symphony doctor whom Boston did not appreciate, has Just concluded a» ® u *s*°* meat for life as conductor « y* wandbaus concert*. Ha *elebrated it t 7 |lTlD| « MUM* Wt« »«****. ,