WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:18.840 The Angel Gabriel is never mentioned in the Bible as the angel of death. 00:18.840 --> 00:22.600 A president of the United States didn't learn to write until the age of 19. 00:22.600 --> 00:26.480 A famous popular song written in New York crossed the Atlantic twice before becoming 00:26.480 --> 00:27.480 popular in America. 00:27.480 --> 00:31.200 This is Lindsay McCarry, ladies and gentlemen, back again with my thespian cohorts to present 00:31.200 --> 00:35.200 another array of amazing facts and out of the ordinary news stories on another session 00:35.200 --> 00:36.480 of Can You Imagine That? 00:36.480 --> 01:03.880 We'll return in a moment or two with the first item. 01:03.880 --> 01:09.520 Hurrah. 01:39.520 --> 02:08.520 Here's a 02:08.520 --> 02:12.080 question for those who claim to know the Bible. Where in the good book is the 02:12.080 --> 02:16.560 angel Gabriel mentioned as blowing the last trumpet? Give up? Well the answer is 02:16.560 --> 02:20.080 that nowhere in the Bible is the angel Gabriel mentioned as blowing the last 02:20.080 --> 02:24.720 trump. Yes it's true. St. John the Divine in the apocalypse tells of angels 02:24.720 --> 02:29.160 sounding trumpets but he mentions no names and in St. Paul's first epistle to 02:29.160 --> 02:34.200 the Corinthians chapter 15 verse 52 we read, We shall all be changed at the last 02:34.200 --> 02:38.520 trump. For the trumpet shall sound and the dead shall be raised incorruptible 02:38.520 --> 02:42.840 and we shall all be changed. But by neither St. John nor St. Paul is the 02:42.840 --> 02:47.160 angel Gabriel mentioned as blowing the last trump. As a matter of fact specific 02:47.160 --> 02:51.280 reference to Gabriel are very few in the scriptures. Then how did the connection 02:51.280 --> 02:55.400 arise between Gabriel and the last trumpet? Listen to this legend of Northern 02:55.400 --> 03:02.000 England. There is a pack of phantom hounds, Gabriel hounds they are, and they roam 03:02.000 --> 03:07.600 the skies. They foretell death by their unearthly howling in the dead of the 03:07.600 --> 03:12.920 night. They are the souls of unbaptized children that must roam the skies in 03:12.920 --> 03:18.800 phantom shape until the judgment day. On a still night you may hear them howling 03:18.800 --> 03:28.040 in the skies when somebody is about to die. They are Gabriel's hounds. There we 03:28.040 --> 03:30.800 have an interesting superstition that helps to give the angel Gabriel his 03:30.800 --> 03:34.920 connection with the last judgment. Two in the same part of England the sounds 03:34.920 --> 03:38.760 made by certain wild geese in flight at night are known as Gabriel's ratchets. 03:38.760 --> 03:42.360 Their honking as they pass swiftly over town and village is likened to the last 03:42.360 --> 03:46.480 trump. But nowhere in the Bible is the angel Gabriel mentioned as the angel of 03:46.480 --> 03:51.920 death blowing the last call to judgment. Can you imagine that? Here's an amusing 03:51.920 --> 03:55.960 little story about the 17th president of the United States Andrew Johnson. It 03:55.960 --> 03:58.680 happened just after Johnson had been elected governor of the state of 03:58.680 --> 04:03.240 Tennessee in 1853. The door to his office opens and a secretary enters. 04:03.240 --> 04:04.240 Oh yes John. 04:04.240 --> 04:07.880 Judge Pepper's just arrived your excellency wishes to see you. 04:07.880 --> 04:10.080 Pepper? Oh have him come in right away. 04:10.080 --> 04:12.080 Yes sir. This way Judge Pepper. 04:12.080 --> 04:13.080 Andrew. 04:13.080 --> 04:16.680 Well it's good to see you ensconced within these venerable walls. 04:16.680 --> 04:18.480 Thank you judge. Thank you. Sit down. 04:18.480 --> 04:23.280 I can't stay but a moment. I just dropped in to make you a presentation of these. 04:23.280 --> 04:28.080 What a hand-wrought pair of fire tongs and a shovel for my fireplace here. 04:28.080 --> 04:30.280 Well that's wonderful Judge. Wonderful. 04:30.280 --> 04:34.880 That's right. You know before I studied law I used to be a blacksmith. 04:34.880 --> 04:39.280 Yes I say you don't mean to tell me you made these tools yourself. 04:39.280 --> 04:45.080 I did just that and best of luck Andrew. Well I must be off. Just took a short 04:45.080 --> 04:47.680 recess from court. See you soon again Andrew. 04:47.680 --> 04:53.080 Goodbye Judge. Thanks. This is a wonderful gift. Made him with his own hands. 04:53.080 --> 04:55.680 Oh John. John. 04:55.680 --> 04:57.080 Yes your excellency. 04:57.080 --> 05:00.680 John I want you to find out for me who Judge Pepper's tailor is. 05:00.680 --> 05:01.880 His tailor sir? 05:01.880 --> 05:04.480 That's right and find out what Judge Pepper's measurements are. 05:04.480 --> 05:06.480 His measurements. Yes sir. 05:06.480 --> 05:10.680 Because if he can give me a present he made with his own hands I can give him one. 05:10.680 --> 05:13.680 But your excellency you're not a blacksmith or a carpenter. 05:13.680 --> 05:15.480 No but I am a tailor. 05:15.480 --> 05:16.280 A tailor? 05:16.280 --> 05:28.280 Yes a tailor and I'm going to make Judge Pepper a fine black broad cloth coat with my own hands. 05:28.280 --> 05:32.880 Yes sir. Sitting cross-legged tailor style on his desk in the gubernatorial offices at night 05:32.880 --> 05:36.480 Andrew Johnson governor of the great state of Tennessee later to become 05:36.480 --> 05:42.280 president of the United States cut and sewed a broad cloth coat for his friend Judge WW Pepper. 05:42.280 --> 05:46.480 To this day this very coat rests in the historical museum of the state of Tennessee 05:46.480 --> 05:48.880 as the only coat of its kind in the world. 05:48.880 --> 05:53.680 The only coat ever made by a state governor who was also vice president and president. 05:53.680 --> 05:56.680 It was during Johnson's boyhood that he learned the tailoring trade 05:56.680 --> 05:59.080 apprenticed out to a Raleigh North Carolina tailor 05:59.080 --> 06:03.280 and chained for six years to a table and a pair of shears. 06:03.280 --> 06:05.880 Another interesting sidelight on Andrew Johnson is this. 06:05.880 --> 06:12.080 It wasn't until he married Eliza McCardell when young Johnson was 19 that he finally learned to write. 06:12.080 --> 06:13.880 Can you imagine that? 06:13.880 --> 06:17.680 Here too are some more glances at odd facts in the lives of American presidents. 06:17.680 --> 06:21.080 Franklin Pierce the 14th president was born on a Friday, 06:21.080 --> 06:25.080 inaugurated on a Friday and died on a Friday. 06:25.080 --> 06:28.680 The next president after Pierce James Buchanan was the only one who never married 06:28.680 --> 06:30.880 remaining a bachelor until his death. 06:30.880 --> 06:34.880 Another strange fact Virginia of course is known as the mother of presidents. 06:34.880 --> 06:37.880 Actually however the state of Virginia better look to her laurels 06:37.880 --> 06:41.480 for while eight presidents claimed Virginia as their birthplace 06:41.480 --> 06:45.280 beginning with US grant seven have been born in Ohio. 06:45.280 --> 06:47.080 And can you imagine this? 06:47.080 --> 06:51.680 Up to the present writing only one president has been born west of the Mississippi River. 06:51.680 --> 06:58.080 The 30th president of the United States Herbert Clark Hoover born at West Branch Iowa. 06:58.080 --> 07:03.980 Well the title of this news story I've dug up from a newspaper of December 17th, 1903 07:03.980 --> 07:09.080 could well be the strange disappearance of Mr. Holland's new shoes and green gaiters. 07:09.080 --> 07:13.380 It seems that Mr. Julius Holland engaged a room at the Great Northern Hotel in Chicago. 07:13.380 --> 07:18.880 He just purchased a new pair of patent leather shoes and nice new green gaiters. 07:18.880 --> 07:22.880 The next morning Mr. Holland appeared before the clerk of the hotel minus shoes said he. 07:22.880 --> 07:24.480 Clerk, clerk come here. 07:24.480 --> 07:25.080 Yes sir. 07:25.080 --> 07:27.280 Now look here what kind of a hotel is this? 07:27.280 --> 07:31.580 A person goes to bed at night and wakes up in the morning with half his clothing stolen. 07:31.580 --> 07:33.980 Just a minute Mr. Holland please not so loud. 07:33.980 --> 07:36.080 Well I don't care how loud I am. 07:36.080 --> 07:38.880 I want my new patent leather shoes and my new green gaiters. 07:38.880 --> 07:40.480 They were stolen while I slept. 07:40.480 --> 07:41.380 But that's impossible. 07:41.380 --> 07:42.180 Oh is it? 07:42.180 --> 07:43.880 Well then take a look at my feet. 07:43.880 --> 07:45.980 I minus shoes. 07:45.980 --> 07:46.780 Just a minute. 07:46.780 --> 07:48.180 We'll take care of everything Mr. Holland. 07:48.180 --> 07:49.280 Just a minute. 07:49.280 --> 07:53.780 The house detective was called and soon he and Mr. Holland were on their way to Holland's room. 07:53.780 --> 07:56.180 Once there. 07:56.180 --> 07:58.380 Now Mr. Holland we'll see what's what around here. 07:58.380 --> 08:00.780 You took the shoes and gaiters off last night. 08:00.780 --> 08:06.080 Well certainly but if I'd known what was going to happen I'd have slept in them. 08:06.080 --> 08:07.980 Where'd you put them when you took them off? 08:07.980 --> 08:08.680 Near the door? 08:08.680 --> 08:09.680 I did not. 08:09.680 --> 08:11.780 I put them in that box over there. 08:11.780 --> 08:13.080 In that box? 08:13.080 --> 08:13.880 Of course. 08:13.880 --> 08:15.380 Thought they'd be safe there. 08:15.380 --> 08:16.080 But it seems... 08:16.080 --> 08:18.880 Mr. Holland we'll have your shoes and gaiters back in three minutes. 08:18.880 --> 08:20.880 Well I certainly hope so. 08:20.880 --> 08:22.280 But how can you be so sure? 08:22.280 --> 08:26.080 Mr. Holland you did not put your shoes and gaiters in a little box as you call it. 08:26.080 --> 08:29.680 That Mr. Holland is not a box and your shoes and gaiters will be found in the basement. 08:29.680 --> 08:33.880 For that little box just happens to be the outlet in this room for the air shaft. 08:33.880 --> 08:43.880 Well thus did Mr. Julius Holland learn that it is not always wise to fly off the handle nor to criticize without reason. 08:43.880 --> 08:49.880 We hope Mr. Holland's brand new shoes and nice green gaiters were only a little soil after their trip down an air shaft. 08:54.880 --> 09:02.880 Several times during this series you've heard how chance remarks dropped unintentionally and casual conversation have led to the writing of some of our most memorable popular songs. 09:02.880 --> 09:04.880 Here's another case. 09:04.880 --> 09:10.880 In the early 90s that famous old New York showman Tony Pastor began the importation of English songwriters. 09:10.880 --> 09:16.880 He discovered that those clever British had a certain something in their writing which American lyricists and composers had not yet captured. 09:16.880 --> 09:19.880 One of these English writers was Harry Dacker. 09:19.880 --> 09:23.880 Shortly after his arrival he met the Dean of American Songwriters of the day, William Jerome. 09:23.880 --> 09:25.880 And as the two conversed casually... 09:25.880 --> 09:27.880 You're right of course. 09:27.880 --> 09:31.880 You know I had another rather startling experience as I came ashore yesterday. 09:31.880 --> 09:33.880 That's all. What was it Mr. Dacker? 09:33.880 --> 09:43.880 Well I suppose it wasn't really anything but when I went over to the freight counter to arrange for the delivery of my bicycle I discovered that your American customers required me to pay duty on the thing. 09:43.880 --> 09:44.880 Hmm. Much? 09:44.880 --> 09:49.880 No not much but it was surprising because we don't do that sort of thing on the other side you know. 09:49.880 --> 09:52.880 Oh well you can be glad it wasn't a tandem. 09:52.880 --> 09:54.880 A tandem? Why? 09:54.880 --> 09:57.880 If it had been a bicycle built for two you'd have paid double duty. 09:57.880 --> 09:59.880 Wait. 09:59.880 --> 10:00.880 What's the matter? 10:00.880 --> 10:02.880 A bicycle built for two. 10:02.880 --> 10:06.880 Mr. Jerome that's my first American song. 10:06.880 --> 10:18.880 Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do. 10:18.880 --> 10:26.880 I'm half crazy all for the love of you. 10:26.880 --> 10:30.880 It won't be a stylish marriage. 10:30.880 --> 10:34.880 I can't afford a carriage. 10:34.880 --> 11:03.880 But you'll look sweet on the seat of a bicycle built for two. 11:03.880 --> 11:22.880 Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do. 11:22.880 --> 11:29.880 I'm half crazy all for the love of you. 11:29.880 --> 11:33.880 It won't be a stylish marriage. 11:33.880 --> 11:37.880 I can't afford a carriage. 11:37.880 --> 11:47.880 But you'll look sweet on the seat of a bicycle built for two. 11:47.880 --> 11:52.880 Yes it was that chance remark of William Jerome's that led Harry Dacker to write the now famous Daisy Bell, 11:52.880 --> 11:55.880 known to us also of course as bicycle built for two. 11:55.880 --> 11:58.880 But a more surprising fact lies in the story following its writing. 11:58.880 --> 12:00.880 After Daisy Bell had been published in New York, 12:00.880 --> 12:03.880 Dacker could persuade no entertainer to use it in his act. 12:03.880 --> 12:08.880 All the popular singers of the day shied away from this first American effort of an English songwriter. 12:08.880 --> 12:14.880 And so the song which Dacker had thought would introduce him to American audiences seemed doomed to ignominious oblivion 12:14.880 --> 12:17.880 until he played it for the then popular Kate Lawrence. 12:17.880 --> 12:23.880 She liked it and agreed to use it, but told Dacker she was about to sail for England for a series of appearances in the London music halls. 12:23.880 --> 12:28.880 Dacker released the song for her use and when Kate Lawrence sang it, it caught on immediately. 12:28.880 --> 12:32.880 It became so popular that it was even played at the royal wedding of the Duke of York. 12:32.880 --> 12:38.880 Naturally the news of this smash hit hopped the Atlantic and New York publishers scrambled for the rights to the new song, 12:38.880 --> 12:41.880 only to discover that it was already published and in New York. 12:41.880 --> 12:47.880 Thus Harry Dacker's first American song had to cross the Atlantic twice before it became a hit in America. 12:47.880 --> 12:48.880 Can you imagine that? 12:48.880 --> 12:51.880 Well now once more friends, it's time to turn you over to your own station announcer. 12:51.880 --> 12:55.880 And as we meet again, this is Lindsay McCarrie saying goodbye now. 13:21.880 --> 13:22.880 Thank you. 13:51.880 --> 13:52.880 Thank you. 14:21.880 --> 14:23.880 Thank you.