Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1889 — The Penalty of Fame. [ARTICLE]

The Penalty of Fame.

Yr. Chauncey M. Depew’s desk in his office in tbe Grand Central “station"—as he delights to call it—reveals something Of the penalty that fame brings in its train. Apparently every one sends him evertliing. By a recent morning’s mail he got a ticket to sn “inauguration ball” in Indianapolis, a queer Japanese nnt, a penknife, the handle of which was made of wood from tbe old fence at Yale college, and an nvltation to run up to Chappaqua and deliver nn address upon Horace Greeley. Ire iously received and lying on the de<k were an alleged pair es Daniel Webster's spectacles and a new puzzle just invente 1 here were many other odd things there, in all probability, but they were buried, for he keeps his desk like an edifor’s, in such a litter that it may be said to lie no better than if it were upside down.