The Chicago Chronicle - Monday, June 3, 1895
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PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
ELSEWHERE.
Said the night superintendent of a popular restaurant in Louisville: "I was steward on one of the large mail line boats at the time Oscar Wilde lectured here. His next engagement was in Cincinnati, and the aesthete took my boat for the queen city. In the evening the guests, who had been entertained during the afternoon by Wilde, missed him at the supper table, and several ladies left the table to search for him. As they were about to leave the cabin a series of screams were heard proceeding from one of the staterooms, and on investigation Wilde was found belaboring his Irish valet on the head with an umbrella. ‘You scamp,' he cried, ‘I'll teach you how to misplace my rouge pot and pomade.' He continued to beat the man for a few minutes, till some of the passengers interfered. No one spoke to him during the remainder of the trip."