Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1875 — Fifty Years After. [ARTICLE]

Fifty Years After.

Among the many stories told of the late Arthur McArthur, of Limington, Me., is the following: A few years after his graduation he received a communication, in the usual form, from the President of Bowdoin College, informing him that the Faculty had conferred upon him the degree of A. M., and’that the parchment evidence thereof would be forwarded to him upon. the payment of the customary fee of $lO. Mr. McArthur made no response to the letter at the time, but nearly, if not quite, half a century afterward took it down from the pigeon-hole, where he had carefully deposited it, and addressed a polite note to the President of the college in his official capacity, acknowledging the receipt of his letter of fifty years before in the same terms he would have done had it been a matter of the week previous, thanking the Faculty for iheir honorable remembrance of him, and inclosing the $lO, with a request that his own example of promptness in attending his correspondence might be copied, and the parchment forwarded to his address without delay.— Boston Globe. i, *** —A favorite sewing circle beverage— Extract of gossipium