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Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1857, 15 December 1874, Page 3

Good, vt kot tbtje.—A South German paper relates the following ;-^" In a Bavarian tosrn of the ■ moat pronounced. - Catholic orthodoxy, the priest preached lately against the Old Catholics, and related such horrible things about them that his pious hearers Vereliterafly horror; stricken at Old Catholic impieties. At • last the preacher cried out, 'The Old Catholics are so vile that they irill be cast into the pit; and if what I tell you is not true, may the deril take me now on this spot ?' Hig excitement was terrible; and he so ■truckle cushion that the book fell from it. Not far from the pulpit there sat an American, who had a negro servant with him, to whom he beckoned to lake the boot up to the priest, who perhaps lhad never seen one of those sons of Ham in his life. The negro at once obeyed^ and as he mounted the lowest of the pulp-t steps" the clergyman repeated his wish that the devil might come and take him if what he had said against the Old Catholics was not true; Although the negro went rery softly the preacher heard his footsteps, and turning round saw a black object solemnly, steadily, and surely ap. proacbing him. He looked at him with terror, and believing that he would be the next instant collared by his satanic majestyiheicrie^dout.with trembling voice, • I|; is, after all, possible that there may be good peo,ple among the Old Catholic«. Turning then round to see. if the object had; disappeared, he still saw it steadily approaching. The perspiration burst out on his brow, and full of despair he called out*.' There are even..many good people among the Old Catholics!' Thinking that this would suffice, he turned rotind but what was his horror to find that the object was close at hand. Imagining himself in the very grasp of Beelzebubj turning partly to the negro arid partly to the; congregation, he cried out, 'May the devil come and take me if all the Old Catholics are not better than we are!' The terrified priest fainted from the fright, aad it was only after some time that he recovered." Chicago ladies, if unwell, deem it vulgar to say they are " Billious," so ccmplain of being " Williamous !" Baenttm Sold.—The following story is told of Mrßarnum. A friend once wrote to him that a certain Mr Tourgie, of Pennsylvania, " had a nose 7in. in length." Mr Barnum immediately wrote to Mr T. to come to New York, and he would pay his expenses. MrT. obeyed. One look satisfied the distinguished showman that he was the victim of a practical joke; Without a word he ascertained what his expenses were and handed him the amount. Mr T. saw the sights of the city, and went home admiring the liberality of showmen.

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