Detroit Ignorance.
The proprietor of a Woodward avenue store, which has been finely decorated in honor of the knights of Pythias, was at his door yesterday, when an old man lounged up and began : " Such ignorance I never saw in all my life ! You see that man over there—the one with the white hat on."
" Yes."
" Well, he was having a good deal to say, and I asked him who Pythias was. Would you believe it, he couldn't answer meP"
" Couldn't he P " stammered the citizen.
"'" No, sir ;he couldn't. Think of such ignorance in this enlightened age! When I told him who Pythias was he called me a liar. Now, I want you to prove that I'm right. You come over and tell him all about it."
"But I—l can't leave." " Then I'll bring him over here."
: " No, you needn't—l'm busy." "I see you are, bnt when a man calls me a liar, I want to prove that I ain't. I'll have him over in a minute."
He hadn't crossed the street before the merchant slid into the store and hurried up stairs to keep out of sight for an hour, and it was only after he was certain that the old man had departed that he slipped down and consulted Webster's Dictionary, to find out whether Pythias was a town, a man, or a temple on a hill.—Detroit Free Press. *
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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4401, 10 February 1883, Page 4
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232Detroit Ignorance. Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4401, 10 February 1883, Page 4
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