BEGINNING AT THE TOP.
In the Legislature of Ohio, some years a»o there was a warm dispute whether a certain proposed railroad should commence £lt a given point doion or at a certain other up the river. : ' Who ever heard,' Baid a down the river advocate, ' of beginning anything at the top ? Who ever heard of building a chimney from the top downward ? Who ever saw a house bugun at the top ?' Up jumped a Dutch member from an xip-the-river county. ' Meester Bresident, de jentlemans say dat dp"~ beeznes ees all yon hoomboog, peeause vee vants to begeen our railroad mit de top ov de Shtate, und he makes some seely combarisons apoufc de houze und de schiumey. I veel also ask de jentlemans one questions. Een hees bart ov de Shtate, yen dey pegins to build yon veil, do dey pogiris mir'h tho bottom ov de veil, or do dey pegins mit tho top ov de veil ? Veel de jentlemans bleese ntiswor me dat leetlo yon question ?' ■ The laughter which explosively followed this Teutonic retort showed who in the opinion of the legislators had the better of the argument.—Harper's Magazine.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3181, 8 September 1881, Page 4
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