REVERE ON THE MINISTER.
TRe Kochester Herald says : A inong tbe inmates of the County Insane Asjlum is a man who is often perfectly sensible, and when accosted at such times«auses visitors to wonderwhyhfi is confined there. This inmate entered into conversation the other day with a caller whose dress proclaimed him a clergyman. < e aid the mud man : "It was too bad, was it not, the ; killing ef Grant at Chicago?" "It was," B&id fch© minister, who followed the accepted custom of assenting to the statements of lunatic* for peace sake. . " Haye» waa assassinated at Cincinnati, was he nod" again asked the . UrtJfctic. , "*ses," replied the clergyman. " And was not Queen Victoria murdered in her palace 1' To this query from the madman the clerical visitor once more answered in the <iffi nuative. The lunatic named, one after another, a dozen living i-oyal personages, all of whom the clergyman was led to admit had beejtpufc out of the way. Finish ing his catechism, thamadinan turned on the clergyman ana said, fiercely : " Your dress shows you are a minister, but you are th« worst liar I e/er met •'»
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Manawatu Herald, 26 August 1881, Page 3
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188REVERE ON THE MINISTER. Manawatu Herald, 26 August 1881, Page 3
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