Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1898 — A Costly Dinner. [ARTICLE]

A Costly Dinner.

The following excellent story, which Gladstone in an interview with Susan W. Selfridge, as given in The Outlook, said he at once incorporated among his own “after-dinner speeches,” and which he said “had even power to araaae Hall

Caine” (who rarely laughs aloud) when the curious critics bombarded Greeba Castle after the publication of “The Christian,” will, we think, amuse our readers as well. Gladstone went o| to t$H me of the splendid wreath deposited by LI Hnn/r 5 Chang while In London on the'mbnu-' ment of General Gordon, his former companion in arms. A relative df the hero was so deeply moved by this act, that he presented the Celestial statesman with a specially fine bull-terrier, the winner of several prizes, and altogether a very fetching canine speciment. Mr. Gladstone repeated the following letter sent in acknowledgment: “My dear Gordon: While tendering my best thanks for sending me your dog, I beg to say that as for myself I have long since given up the practice of eating dog’s flesh, but my attendants, to whom I handed the creature, tell me they never tasted anything so nice. Yonrs devoted, L.”