People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1894 — American Wit. [ARTICLE]

American Wit.

When a story teller relates a clever thing that was originated by an actress he always credits it to the late Georgia Drew Barrymore, unless it happens that he knows the name of the actual creator of the bit. Mrs. Barrymore was one of tho brightest women on the stage, and it is always safe to attribute a witty thing to her mind, for she was equal to anything. Sho was talking to a young Englishman in Memphis one day, when the foreigner spoke of what he called tho impudence of the American people in presuming to dictate terms to England in a matter of such moment as the Behring sea dispute. “Why,” he said, to clinch his argument, “if you folks aren’t a bit careful we’ll send an army over here and wipe your country off the • globe in no time.” “What!” the bright actress said, “again?”—St. Louis Republic.