Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1886 — Smart Betsy Bonaparte. [ARTICLE]

Smart Betsy Bonaparte.

Mme. Bonaparte, in her younger days, once attended a state dinner, and was taken to the table by Lord Dundas. He had already received some of her sarcastic speeches, and in a not very pleasant mood asked her whether she hud read Mrs. Trollope’s' book on America. She had. “Well, madame,” said the EnglislimajL_JJSiiat do you think of her pronouncing all Americans vulgarian’s 7”“I am not surprised at that,” answered sprightly Betsy Bonaparte. “Were the Americans the descendants of the Indians or the Esquimaux I should be astonished; but being the direct descendants of the English, it would be very strange if they were not vulgarians.” fhere ifas no more heard from Lord Dundas tlfat evening. —Notes and Queries. When a man starts out to lecture he puts on a dress-suit. woman before starting out to lecture puts on a nightgown.