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Dunstan Times, Issue 434, 12 August 1870, Page 2

General Jackson was once bored by a man who wanted an office and called repeatedly to press his importunities. The fellow used to give fees to the doorkeeper, and so got admitted under various pretexts much to the annoyance of the old General, The latter finally caught a bright idea, and one morning said to his servant : “ Do you know what that man comes about here so much for?” ‘‘ And sure Ido not,” "was the reply. “ eel,” said Jackson, * I may as well tell you; ho wants your place.” The next time the applicant came he found the door-keeper decidedly rough in manners, and was told that the General could not see anybody to-day. The next day and the" next the case was the same, and the man could never got near Jackson as long as he remained in the Presidential chair. The servant always told him the General was not at home and did’nt intend to be. The length of Sermons.—The Rev. Mr. Brooke, curate of St. James, Taunton, before commenciughis sermon on Sunday evening, observed that two individuals of the congregation had waited upon him, one coun celling him that his sermons wore too long, and the other complained of his rapid utterances. He begged publicly to thank them for the courage they had displayed in coming forward to tell him of his faults And he would endeavour to profit by their instructions. The rev. gentleman afterwards showed that ho had so profited by making his sermon twenty minutes longer t hausual— “ Wilts County Mirror.”