-
Sunday Reading.
By taking revenge a man is but even
he is superior.
Adversity is the trial of principle;
without it, a man hardly knows whether
he is honest or not,
Be loving, and you. will never want
for Jove ; be himble; afid you will nev-
er want for guiding.
Life is a battle. From its earliest
dawn to its latest breath we are strug-
gling with something.
has in this world 'is the open saloons,
The saloons of to-day are doing more
to empty Sabbath-schools and paralyze
the church in her efforts to make the
world better, than all other agencies
combined, — Lever,
He that has never known adversity
is but half acquainted with others or
with himself; Constant success shows
us but one side of the world, for, as it
surrounds us with friends who will tell
us only our merits, so it silences those
enemies from whom alone we ean learn |
our defects,
might think, east or west, in country or
in city. Anywhere a man may be a
gentleman if he will.
may do honest, faithful work, if he
will, Anywhere one may live a pure
and uoble life, doing good, if he will,
and these are the works of a man.
The true use of Sunday morally is to
spend it reviving one’s moral ¢onscious-
ness or conscience, ‘There is a portion
of our nafure that is dwarfed six days.
Sometimes it is dwarfed by selfishness,
sometimes by.solitude, again by evad-
ing our family kindness and filial or
parental affection. Sunday should be
the restoring day for man’s self respect,
the rest-day for his mere enslaved fac
ulties, the joy day of his week,
How 10 ENJoy LaFeE.—Avoid all
boastings and exaggerations, backbit-
ing, abuse, and evil-speaking, slang
phrases, and oaths in conversation ; de-
preciate no man's qualities, and accept
hospitalities of the humblest kind in a
hearty and appreciative manner ; avoid
giving offense, and, if you do offend,
have the manliness to apologize; infuse
as much elegance as possible into your
thoughts as well as your actions ;
as you avoid vulgarities, you will in-
crease the enjoyment of life, and grow
in the respect of others,
and,
THRE IRREVERENCE OF THE AGE.—
In his sermon last Sunday, Mr. Tal-
mage Spoke from Isaiah vi. part of
verse 2, describing the glory of the
seraphim. He deplored the irreverence
of thisage toward parefifs, and toward
serious and sacred things, “It is the
finite confronting the infinite ; it ig like
a tack-hammer trying to break a thun-
derbolt,’’ he said. “Don’t be flippant
about ‘God ; don't joke about death:
don’t make fun of the Bible ;
ride eternity. The brightest and
mightiest of asgels take nofamiliarities
with God.”
make us vain, or to fill us with self-
conceit, Pride.’ we are (old, “goeth
before a fall,” and is indeed often one
of the principal causes which leads to
that end. Jt naturally excites the en-
vy and opposition of others, and neces-
sarily leads to trouble. Little minds
are puffed up with a sense of their
greatness and importance, but the truly
wise and good are always humble and
unasssuming, . Our true wisdom is to
cultivate a spirit of humility under the
most prosperous circumstances, We
should pevér permit pur présent attain-
ments, nor the prospect of future ad-
vancement, to make us vain, God can
easily humble our pride, and make us
feel how little we are.
“In our midnight explorations we
wine cup. That was what flushed the
cheeks of ‘patrons who came in. That
was what staggered the steps of patrons
as they went out. The officers of the
law tell us that nearly all the men who
go into the shambles of death, go in in-
toxicated—the mental and spiritual
abolished for the time that the brute
may triumph, Tell me that a young
man drinks and I know the whole story.
If he become a captive of the wine cup,
he will become a captive of all other
vices, :No one ever knows. drunkens
ness alone ; that is the carrion crow
that goes ina flock; when you see that
beak ahead you may know the others
are coming. In other words the wine
cup unbalances and dethrones tne
better judgment apd - leaves one the
prey of all evil appetites’ that may
choose to alight on the soul. "’Tul.
BreAD UroN Ti WATERS, «Many
are the in rations of the truth that a
great may flow from an apparent-
ly trivial cause,
: . who
was a Hogtcn
seminary at Princeton Dr. Alexander
says. Jil
a
In attending commencement at Dart-
‘mouth college, in 1801, I became ac-
' quainted with Rev. Dr. Packard, of
Shelbourne, Mass, In traveling with
{ him on horseback down the Connecticut
river, my horse became lame, and
“he invited me to go and spend a
few weeks with him in his parish,
| 80 that my horse might recruit. I
' did so.
During my stay in Shelbourne, there
was an interesting work going on in the
church. Many of the children and youth
| were influenced by it.
As Dr. Packard and myself were on
morning walking along by a house he
said to me—
*“There, 1 wish you would go and talk
with that chunk of a boy, who stands by
the feuce yonder.”
I did so as faithfully as I could. I of
course did not suppose that I should see
or hear of thé boy again,
Some years ago a stranger passed
through Princeton, and called at my
' study, He said,
“You are Dr, Alexander; do you
remember that you spent a few weeks
in Shelbourne, Mass, many years
| ago 7”
| ‘*I do,” said 1.
“Do you remember, Dr, Packard
asked you one morning to talk with a
of boy that stood by the
: fence 7’
“Why, said I, ‘the circumstances
had long been forgotten, but I now re
call it to mind.”
“That chunk of a boy was myself,
The words which you spoke to me
were blessed to my spiritual good. I
date my religious life back to that
time,”
The chunk of a boy who, as a man,
thus confessed that his religious life
was due toan apparently undesigned con-
versation, became one of the most dis-
tinguished ministers of the Presbyterian
church in the United States,
Thus slight are the means which
are often usted for the accomplish-
ment of great results in the kingdom
of God,
“Cast thy bread upon the
chunk “
waters,’
a
National Populations.
“If the various countries maintain
their present rate of increase,’ says
Mr. Gosselin, Secretary of Embassy at
Berlin, '‘fifty years hence the United
States will ‘have a population of 190
000,000, Russia approximately 153,000, -
000, Germany 83,000,000, the United
Kingdom 63,000,000, Austria-Hungary
and Italy both 44.000.000, and France
only 40,000,000. Germany has already
in round numbers 7,500,000 more in-
habitants than France ;
reckoning Algeria is not taken
account.” For war purposes, however,
it is obvious that the balance is not so
heavily against France,
but
into
for whereas in
thousand females,
991. Germany bas, therefore,
three and a half millions more
France.
only
than
m—— AIA ———
Qught to Have a Wife that
Can't Add.
It was on the Elevated the
other morning. A man was seen to
suddenly rise upward, look ardund on
the seat, feel in his pockets, and grow
excited our the loss of something or
other. “Lost your wallet 7"
the man next to him. “No.” “Had
your watch taken?” “No.” “Losta
roll of bills, perhaps 7’ “It’s my check-
book. 1 believe I left it at home.
Dear, how careless am I’ “It might
be worse,’’ said the other, ina consol.
ing tone, “‘Idon’'t see how it could,’
growled the other. My wife will sit
down and figure up the stubs, and
when I go home to dinner it'll take a
full hour to make her believe that ‘inci-
dental’ has anything to do with house-
hold expenses,”
toad
queried
EE ————
Couldn't get his Money.
He was a seedy and not over clean
individual, and his breath was redolent
of rum as he stopped and thus accost
ed a gentleman on the street yesterday :
“Shay, mister, 1 want to borrow a dol-
lat. Pay you to-morrow, sure pop,
soon’s I get a letter from New York.
Ought to have my clothes full of money
for I sent ou te my partner in business
— prominent broker on Wall street—to
send me on telegraphic order for a hno.
dred and a half, but blamed telegraph-
ers. gome and struck and can’t get
nothin’ through, Hard case, ain't it ?
and peculiar? but no fault of mine,
you see. I'm square, but dash bloated
the | masop’ly I What they want to par’lyze
business interests of country for?
Well, "bout that dollar. Where the
thunder is that feller I was talkin’ to ?
Gone! Well, that's a nice way to treat
gen'lm'n'’—and he went off to work
his) inspired scheme elsewhere, —
Boston Jow, na.
C—O
+A New Orleans paper says that dig-
nity kills a pienie. But there is little
chaneefor dignity with one of the party
trying to kick some red ants out of his
! trousers’ legs,
Is
Agricultural, '
mssro—
Does Truck~ Farming Pay ?
Let not farmers be disturbed by the |
fears of some that truck-farming will |
not pay. Those who expect to make |
sudden fortunes by it may be disap-
pointed, and as a considerable number
of men at all trades i impatient
and disgusted if fortunefails to respond
promptly to their loose half-hand sum-
mons, it is very likely hatt some of
them in like manner will retire from
the truck farms, Noboby has advised
the farmers to drop everything else and
go to truck-farming, but to diversify
with truck, and thus increase the prob-
ability of profit. Truck-farming com-
pels the adoption of the ‘‘intensive’
system of farming, and it thus pays by
enriching the soil for other crops that
may be planted after the truck is gath-
ered. It gives the family an abundance
of early vegetables, and thus pays by
saving more costly articles of food, and
as such early productions may enter
great markets in the countries where
they cannot be produced at that season,
is is wholly unreasonable, nay, nonsen-
sical, to argue that it will not pay to
send them there, let farmers go on
learning how to prepare the
to cultivate, how to pack and ship,
what varieties to plant, how to market,
in a word how to prodnce at the lowest
practical cost, and results will take care
of the profits,
Feeding for Quality and Yield.
A writer of the Country
has the following to say regarding the
feeding of dairy cows for quality and
yield: “To produce first-class gilt-
edge butter from a herd of Jersey cows,
the food must be pure and wholesome
at all times. Weeds in pastures or hay
destroy te fine flavor of the bulter.
Rag weed and others are as
in a manner as wild onions,
great point is cleanliness,
at the yards and stables, and ending
with the finishing of the butter. To
wel a cow's teats while milking is a
filthy
tolerated.
soil, how
(fentlema
injurious
The next
commencing
and should never be
these
practice,
If rules are strictly
adhered to and the modern dairy fix-
tures employed, the result will be satis-
factory, If i, then the
maid has neglected
understand the
it i8 1 dairy
or she
business, |
have noticed in your valuable paper the
statement of a correspondent that if a
cow vields a large amount of butter it
will be of an inferior quality on account
of the quaatily
to produce it. 1
Take,
something,
does not
large of food reqdired
that
instance,
assert to be
for
a
delusion. Mr,
and
Li
indica
ueen of her family,
full sister to F, M. Carryl's young bu
from all pres
ined t
the
who, sent
is dest to be the coming bull
Rioter- Violet-Alphea
was not overfed dur-
make
ood food of a
Bomba
ing her of 2
pay give her a variety of g
ial test, To a COW
pature, as mu h a8 you can get
with plenty of pure
not allow her to be
beaten, worried or excited
eal up clean,
walter to drink, and
, and you may
be assured that the food will not injure
Any practi
testing a cow,
the quality of her butter.
cal man
that if he overfeeds her she will surely
go off her feet inside of th and
probably be k from indigestion.
That ends the test until she
ber health. It is sheer folly to try to
force a sixteen or eighteen pound cow
to yield twenty-one pounds of butter in
seven days. There is no food known to
dairymen that will do it.”
knows, when
ree days,
aie
recovers
Farr Notes.
One of the best crosses between fowls
is the mating of a Houdan cock and a
Brahma hen, which produces not only
an unusually large fowl but also an ex-
cellent class of laying bens. The cross
also combines hardiness, early maturity
and quick feathering.
Samuel Miller, of Missouri, to the
end of increasing the crops of potatoes
when seed i8 new and high-priced,
plants the tubers in boxes early by a
stove and starts the sprouts, and when
three inches in height they are removed
and set out, and the operation continued
several times,
Experiments at the Canadian Model
Farm show that a cow previous to calv-
ing should be eonfined to a straw and
hay diet and completely dried off ; that
the milking periods should be only once
a day for awhile, then once in two days,
and prolonging the intervals as long as
it is safe to to so,
Ab a recent meeting of the South
Haven and Casco Pomological Society
Mr. Joseph Lannin related the follow-
ing curious incident : Early in the even-
ing, fearing a frost might injure his
Niagara grapes, they gathered every-
thing available to cover them ; the re-
sult was that every vine covered with
white cloth had all the buds Milled,
while those that were covered with
dark cloth and those not covered at all
were not injured in the least,
Hawks have a partiality for a tall
pole, from whence they can survey the
field before seizing their prey, The
knowledge of this propensity of the
hawk by the farmers sometimes induces
th e latter to erect poles at certain loca
tions, at the top of which are fastened
wo
hawks alight on them.
Bees range to a great distance in
search of honey, As fences are no pro-
tection against their raiding on neigh-
boring fields bee-keeping is often prac-
ticed by those who have but little space,
and the honey thus procured is nearly
all clear profit, for but little assistance
is required by bees in the shape of arti-
ficial food.
W. P. Atherton, in a paper on the
care of fruit trees, read before a Maine
horticultural society, told the follow-
ing : “A farmer dismissed a hand be-
cause he set only nine trees in a day
during his absence ; the next day he
set the balance of 100 himself. When
they bore fruit, the nine set by the
hired man proved to be more valuable
than the ninety set by himself.”
oarey Smith says in the Iowa Home-
“Three tons of hay or 100 bush-
els of corn, or one animal pastured per
means plenty of manure. To
make two blades of grass grow where
only one grew before, is more a matter
of manure than brains, yet brain power
may come to our aid in the work of
putting the manure where it will do
stead !
acre
the most good.”
The Kansas City Live
finds from assessors’
Stock Indicator
reports that the
crop of dogs is growing less in that
In 1881 there 144,104,
while in 1852 there were only 120 32%,
That looks well fer the sheep interests,
But, unfortunately, the dogs,
though in smaller numbers, killed more
sheep than the 1851 dogs did. The
smallness of the dog crop does not seem
to work desirable results.
Aylesbury ducks bave long been con-
side red by most breeders of this class of
fowls as standing at the head, all things
Jand the best va-
State, were
1 R&D
being taken into account
riety of ducks known, Their distinctive
characteristics consist of a plumage of
unspotted white,
bill ; a dark,
£2501
stately
a pale, flesh-colored
prominent eye
carriage,
ily as
; orange
prolific ness and
excel market birds, The
ght of the grown fowls averages, if
properly fed,
legs
lent qual
wel
from 1e:
duck and
weigh
1 He
n to twelve pounds
drake). The ducks
aight ten pounds
ducks
Instances
SAK) egus
two ducks
one of
a pair
often
ERC.
and
are
have
have
proiific Iayv-
known
obtained
ers, been
where
from
sides which
the duriz
three nests giving thirty young ducks.
It for Aylesbury ducks
that their consumption
thar
maturity at an early age
been
in one year, be-
them sat twice and
other once ig the time, the
is also claimed
of food is less
bn ng
compared
th common ducks, and being farmore
le from their superior
The
rs and excellent me
any other sorts, besides obtais
ns
A
marketal appear-
ance when plucked. females are
wl siti
Fhe Tq
most
hers,
wlo f
Hse goose 18 one
popular, on account of its size
early development, good
tl i]
der and well-
laying quality
sh. In
omen are light
neck
and ten flavored fle
breast and abd
the back dark gray: the
gray than the back ; wings and
off to white : under
the body white. The skin of the
breast and abdomen show a tendency to
hang down in folds, nearly toue!
ground,
color, the
gray ;
darker
abdomen shading
part of
ing the
This detracts much from the
value of the breed, as it gives
impression of greater age than the
The bill
of the Toulouse goose is pale flesh color,
and the legs and feet deep orange, in-
clined to red, t is easily fattened,
sometimes reaching the enormous
weight of fifty or sixty pounds to the
pair, while its cross with the common
goose is thought to be even larger than
the pure breed. For breeding, only two
or three geese should go with one Tou.
louse gander, The geese produce thir-
teen to fifteen eggs each, After the
goose has sat a day or two, thirteen eggs
should be given. The period of incuba-
tion is from twenty-eight to thirty days
line
English Wealth Coming to
America,
market
the
goose may actually possess,
Of late years it has become the habit
of wealthy English peers to own a con-
siderable amount of property in the
United States, and among others Lord
Rosebery is now the possessor of a
tremendous estate in Virginia, on
which, an American gentleman tells
me, the arrangements for masking it
productive are largely carried on. In
looking over a “‘financial record’ of the
States, I also notice that the Duke of
Sutherland holds five million dollars in
their funds, Sir Thomas Brassey a like
sum, and the Baroness Burdett-Coutts,
twenty millions,
No words can express how much the
world owes to sorrow. Most of the
Psalms were born in a wilderness,
most of the Epistles were written in a
prison. The greatest thoughts of the
greatest thinkers bave all passed
through fire. The greatest poets have
“learned in suffering what they taught
in song.” In bonds Bunyan lived the
allegory that he afterward indited, and
we may thank Bedford Jail for the
“Pilgrim’s Progress.” Take comfort,
afflicted Christian! When God is about
puts him in the fire,
C—O A ARN SES
Family Photograph Album,
“This,” the young lady sald, ‘4g
the photograph of a young gentleman
who used to pay attention to Aunt
Martha, He was atte nding Letherhed
College when this picture was taken,”
And he was a nice young man, His
collar wanders out over his shoulders
and his necktie look: like a roll of car-
pet with the ends fringed. His vest
is a bowered pattern of velvet cut low
in the neck. His coat is a Prince Al-
bert, and his legs hang down from the
vast embrace of its encircling tails,
making bim look like a double-tongued
bell. His trousers are broad, and he
leans on a large book in a very pain-
ful attitude. His hair is combed low
on his forehead and high at the temples,
thus displaying the broad sweep and
comprehensive scope of two ears that
flare with the unfolding spread of in-
tellectual development. His brow is
contracted with thought and the in-
tense effort to look fixed at the impos-
sible point indicated by the artist. The
freckles on his nose do not show, They
were kindly and carefully obliterated
by the photographer, whose
““Art, for art’s sake.” and who saw
they were the only real and natural thing
in the negative,
“And this,’’ said the young
a photograph of Mrs. Thistlepod, an
old friend of our family. I think I
have heard it said that pa liked her, in-
before he met ma, It
good photograph,”
The young lady is correct.
motto is:
lady, “‘is
deed, is not a
The exe-
cution is not a brilliant success. The
bonnet which is massive and of a mul-
tiflora style’of decoration is well out-
lined, and the massive bow of four-inch
ribbon with which it is tied under the
chin, ie brought out in startling relief
against the blank, oval-shaped
between it and the brow of the
nit,”’ which is supposed to represent
the placid features of “‘pa’s”
flame. Crossed on her lap,
focus, Mrs. Thistlepod’s hands are
magnified into the dimensions of small
hams with fingers. This colossal effect
is also rather emphasized by the too
long fingers of the gloves. Mrs. This
tlepod is sitting so rigidly erect that
you fear she has swallowed the head
by mistake, instead of leaning
against it, as she was told. The dead-
ly weapon lying in her lap is sometimes
mistaken for a policeman’s billy. It
is Mra. Thistlepod’s fan,
“And here,”’ the voung lady went
‘is Mr. Thistlepod. He is a very
Kind-hearted man.”
I was glad she told
Thistlepod bad wade ber husband's
shirts under the impression that he
was a rapidly growing boy instead of a
of 47 172
pounds. The shirt boils and bubbles
ikles up out of front.
His collar stands up ke the ear of a
terrier
space
“bun-
early
in close
rest
on,
me 50. Mrs,
man o years weighing already
his vest
and wri
on one side, in
His
bul drops away
languid angularity on the other.
black necktie,
around his neck, is tied
by long years of actual practice in ty-
ing old-fashioned hamstrings. The
coat he wears is the awful coat of
the Sabbath day and Fourth of July, and
the ret of the fearful and wonderful
pantaloons, all taut on the larboard
tack, betrays the solitary suspender in
all its loneliness. One knotted knee is
crossed above the other, and the sus
pended foot hangs out in the air like
the coffin of Mahomet. His trousers
crawl up the rigid legs of his boots,
In one hand, with the arm still fixed
in the frozen agony of the acute angle
at which the artist set it, he holds a
stovepipe hat with a level brim, with
the intensity of a despairing man who
will enly loose his vise-like grip upon
that hat with death. The other arm
bas been lashed across his body, and
the extended fingers driven between his
vest and cont with a sledge hammer,
You cannot see the tenpenny nails
which pin this arm to its place but you
krow they are there, Mr. Thistlepod's
hair is combed straight out from his
head in both directions from any point
of view. His lips are set, and his eyes
glare with the pained expression of a
man who has just been given the pleas-
ant alternative of having his tooth
pulled or the boil on the back of his
neck lanced, as the only cure for the
felon on histhumb, In all the agony
of his face you can read murder in his
heart and the beholder is glad to have
the pretty young lady’s word for it, that
Mr. Thistlepod is a kind-hearted man.
“And this,” the young Jady said,
pitching her voice in a little lower
key, while a faint color mantled
her cheeks, this is George Stevenson.”
I knew by her voice and manner that
George Stevenson was the most import-
ant man in that album, but her father
came in just then to take me to the
train and | had only a brief glance at
George Stevenson, His collar was very
high and very wide open at the throat.
His curling hair curled as never hair
curls outside of a country village, It
climbed up onftop of itself in billows
of curls like pine shavings ; it clustered
over his brow in rings and hooks and
scrolls and not even the art of the all-
disguising photographer could hide the
glistening of the perfumed bear's oil
wherewith those twining locks were
anointed. His right band rested on
his hip : bis left held his cape ; his lege
crossed. The expression of his face
was stern, as a wan born to command.
His profession was clerk in a hide
and leather store. His mustache curled
up to meet his hair. A bouquet bloom-
ed in the lapel of his coat. The ring
on his finger bad a set as large as an
acorn and the pin in his scarf looked
like a champagne cork. 1 glanced in
through the sitting-room window asl
drove away with her father, and the
young lady was still looking with ten-
der interest at the picture of George
Stevenson,
on
Rallway Rumblings.
The earnings of the Manitola rail
road for the second week in August
1883, were $151,500; do. 1¥82 $200
200 ; decrease, $50,700,
The earnings of the
Valley railroad from
i883, inclusive,
$29
Shenandoah
August 1 to 17,
$48. 338 : ditto
increase, §10.082,
Mr. Cyrus W. Field says that
earnings of Manhattan
railroad are from 15 to 20 per cent.
higher than last year, and that each
week's receipts show an increase,
were
IRR2, 256
the
the Elevated
The approximate receipts of the Cin-
c¢innati Southern railroad for fourteen
days ending August 14, from freight
and passenger business, amount to
$103,565.60 ; ditto 1882, $01,283.35:
increase, $12 312.54,
London mail advices report that the
recent attack on Grand Trunk shares
in tl at market was due to the threat of
an injuention on behalf of a Mr. Adams,
a stockholder in the Great Western
Company, and a committee of share
holders, should the directors of the
united undertakings atiempt to apply
the reserve of the Great Western Com-
pany toward the payment of dividends.
The of the
Norfolk Western Railroad from
August 1 to 14, 1883, inclusive, were
$03.342; do. 1882 $82 664
$10,678, The new river division was
opened for business on May 21. and
the daily earnings accruing therefrom
are included in the above statement.
From August 1to 18 inclusive there
were moved on the division 640 loaded
cars, of which 443 were coal and coke
same period last month, 382 ; increase
over last month, 267,
A meeting of the Trunk Line Com-
mittee, passenger department, has
called to consider the emigrant
business and the attitude of the
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
railroad in rel to kinds o
| passenger business, The Delaware,
| Lackawanna and Western still remains
the and it alleged
approximate earnings
and
increase
been
ation all
tui vy 1 ig
ouLsiae pool, IR
though professing to work with the
pool, it is building up business by a
systematic rate cutting. An attempt
is &« be made by the trunk lines t«
meet Lackawanna rates on emigrant
business,
a —— — _—
They Struck.
A teacher finding it diffienlt to ob
tain the prompt attendance of the boys
in her class resolved to adopt a plan
which she felt sure would be success.
ful. She said to the boys :
“Now, 1 will give a bright penny te
each one who will be in their places
every Sunday.”
The plan seemed to work well until
one Sunday not a boy appeared in his
place. The teacher was surprised and
somewhat discouraged that her plan
had not succeeded. But the next dav.
while walking down the street and
thinking what to do next, she met one
of the boys and said to him :
“Well, Johnnie, where were you ves-
terday
“At home, mum,’
“But why did you and the other
boys not come to Sundar-school and get
your pennies f*
“Oh, teacher, cause we've struck :
we won't come for Jess than two cents
now, "— Erchange,
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Odd Fun,
A few nights ago Mr. Gilbert, the
actor, was standing at the gate of his
house with bis hat off, He had, in
fact, seen some ladies to their carriage ;
they bad driven off and he remained
standing on the sidewalk, enjoying the
cool of the evening, Out of a neigh-
boring house where he had been dining
stepped a gentleman, who after walking
a few paces, became aware of Mr.
Gilbert, whom he mistook for the
butler of the establishment. Address
ing him at once, with an air of polite
superiority, he said: “Will you eall
me a hansom cab?” “Certainly,” re-
plied Mr. Gilbert, “you are a Hansom
cab,” This odd bit of fun reminds me
of poor Frank Talpurd®s famous reply:
tothe man who, seeing him on a bitter
night without a wrap, said: “Why,
you never wear an over-
coat I” “No,» replied Talpurd, “1
never was,’