Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 165, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1916 — HUMORS OF SOME GREAT MEN [ARTICLE]

HUMORS OF SOME GREAT MEN

John Murray In London Lecture Draws Amusing Pictures of William Gladstone —Dean Stanley. The London correspondent of the Boston TranscripL speaking of a lecture delivered by the publisher, Mr. John Murray, said: Mr. Murray drew an amusing picture of Gladstone in bed. “The last time I was at his house,” he said, "I had breakfast early and alone, as 1 was going to Scotland. When I had finished, I was told that Mr. Gladstone did not know that I was leaving so early, and that he wanted to have another talk with me. I went to his bedroom—a very large room with a double bed in it “Gladstone was dressed in a nightgown, with a brown Shetland shawl round him. He was lying flat on his face, his head at the foot of the bed and his feet on the pillows. In one hand he held a cup of coffee and there was a book in the other. I shall never forget that interview and the comicality of the great Hon head popping up as I went toward him.” The lecturer next alluded to Dean Stanley, whose writing was so bad that he could not read a letter he himself had written, and whose contraction of "Jerusalem" Into “Jerus” resulted in the compositor’s setting it up as “Jones.” Two friends once dined with the dean, and there was cold duck on the table. The dean carved; but he was so engrossed with the conversation that he first let the duck slip upon the table and then upon the floor. One of the guests, knowing that the duck was the only thing they had for luncheon, shouted, “I see a cat In the room!” "Ah,” said the dean, "you need not be afraid of the duck! I have my foot on il” ;;