Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1911 — Famous Eccentric Toasts. [ARTICLE]

Famous Eccentric Toasts.

Pitt, at . Kidderminster, gave a toast in compliment to the carpet manufacturers. “May the trade of Kidderminster," said Pitt, "be trampled under foot by all the world I" A more audacious toast, freighted with double meaning, has been varF ously attributed to Smeaton, Ersklne and to some others. This after-dinner trade sentiment was delivered In this form: “Dam the canals, sink the coal pits, blast the minerals, consume the manufactures, disperse the commerce of Great Britain and Ireland.” —Cornhill Magazine.