Savory MOrsels.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4510, 19 June 1883, Page 2

Savory MOrsels.

Lincoln, was a Mil-splitter; Garfield was a^tnalboj; Ai|dre» Jaoktonwas a tailor.; . Goteroor Cterejand soj4> nawa^ papers;, the governor of' Kansas dror* oxen ; the present governor of Te.zaa.waa ■■, nn hostlrr; the present governor of CalU for ia wah a .sailor, ahd afterwards swept •ut a store in Ororiila for %;« boaed. A*. T. dteaarfe taaght school, and sold tape iby the pennyworth; Frederick 0«b----.jardt/s graudfatber piokfd'jip junk fia thi Htreets of New York; \lfmj Gould soIJ mouse-trapa; Jim K^me kept a (mrr stable; Kufas Hateli wat a locoraotire fireman. •' ■- «•' I ' ■ . Talking of spefch-reportmn. Bishop ttelwyn ezpreiaed his. faroonble «xperi4 ence of the general sccnraey t>f neiwaMper; accounts. But he mentioned an exeep. tion. Lecturing in England on miaaiqoary work in the South Seas, he apofee «f hoi < distracting it oocaMonally,/ was. when urgent about spiritual things and the consolation they afforded, to find the typical islander's»perpetuaUpplieation to be for •• Baoca! baeca!" The report in the local newspaper next day was a fair resume, but at the stage at which the above was spoken the reporter had. apparently dosed a little, frr thVis hb* it appeared.—'* The Biifcop then saitl,. that although spiritual (affairs amongsk the isaluders were generatly disheartening* --still there was the consolation of} pipes and tobacco."

.Teacher—" Why, how stupii yo« are to be sure. Can't multiply eixhty.eighi by twenty fire P I'll wager tfet Cbarfeg can do it to leas than no time." Papit— '*" I shouldn't be surprised. They tay that fools multiply rery rapidly nowadays."** Boston Transcript.