THE LINGARDS AND PRESIDENT GRANT.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume 6, Issue 508, 30 November 1876, Page 2

THE LINGARDS AND PRESIDENT GRANT.

A Southern contemporary in noticing the arrival of the Linganu in Dunedin, records the following amusing incident that occurred at the National TLearie, Washington. United States;—

Some time since, having announced a performance at the theatre, he (Mr Lingnrd) vertieed, amongst the celebrities he would impersonate during the evening, the of President Grant The house was crowded to excess on this occasion, but Mr Lingsid’t feelings can scarcely be analysed when, on peeping through the eye-hole in the curtain, he perceived toe President himself seated in one of the boxes. The performance, however, went on; and as he neared that portion of the programme in which President Grant was announced to appear, the excitement of the andienoe became intense. At last the turn for the President came. Lingaid hesitated for a moment, but the shouts of audience were deafening, and in a lew seconds he stepped forward,—the life like image of the President. Por a few moments the walls of the theatre seemed ready to burst, as sheer after cheer was thundered out, mingled with Urn name of “ Grant t”and in the midst of tho tumult the President himself slipped toward and bowed his acknowledgments. For a second, as the two men, one in the bos and his counterpart on the stage, stepped forward the likeness was bewildering, aim the uproar increased. The next moment, Preswent Grant turned towards the stage to bow Ub acknowledgments to Mr Lingard, when what was his surprise to see standing before Urn not his own doable, but a life-like *"*rgr of G- V. Brooke. In the few seconds of writs ■ meat attendant on the second bunt of applause, Lingsrd had changed from one character to another.