Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1883 — The Elderly Gentleman and the Porter. [ARTICLE]

The Elderly Gentleman and the Porter.

An elderly gentleman presented himself at one of the entrances of the new law courts of London. “No admittance except on business,” said the porter, who did not remember having'seen the elderly gentleman before. The latter explained that his name was Gladstone —William Ewart Gladstone. The porter thought he had heard the name somewhere, in a papqr, likely; but orders were qrders, and—finally, however, he was convinced, and Mr. Gladstone went on his way speculate upon sublunary reputations, and the janitor remained wondering that this Mr. Gladstone—or whatever his name is—should insist upon going in that way against orders.— London Globe*