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...Reverend Burnett Hillman Streeter, D. D., fellow and lecturer of Queen's College, Oxford, will give the first series of Hewett lectures during the second-half year. These lectures have been established upon a bequest of the late Professor Waterman Thomas Hewett, of Cornell University, and will probably be given at intervals of three of four years...
Other laughing matters-THE QUEEN'S HUSBAND, THE SHANNONS OF BROADWAY, BURLESQUE...
...fact that an African potentate presented Queen Maria Theresa, the consort of Louis, with a Negro dwarf. So fond of the monstrous little character did the Queen become, that her ladies too acquired dwarfs. Soon it became a fashion. The affection which these ladies lavished upon their horrible pets was touching and delightful. Maria Theresa, indeed, would often invite her dwarf...
...Rogers says that the Queen of France gave birth to a female pickaninny and that courtiers agreed that the grimaces of her dwarf must have frightened her into what would otherwise have been a most dubious production. The black girl was baptized Louise Marie, and sent to a convent where she stayed until her death. French records of the period speak of a "black...
...disgruntled go-between was Emmet Queen, who claims that it was he, not Beman Gates Dawes (brother of the Vice President) who brought about Mr. Dillon's recent sale of the Pure Oil Co. to the Ohio Cities Gas Co. for $23,500,000. Mr. Queen asserts that Mr. Dawes was Mr. Dillon's "dummy" in the deal, and wants $1,100,000 go-between commission for himself...