KEEN OBSERVATION.

Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5092, 13 May 1885, Page 3

KEEN OBSERVATION.

A man is never so much impressed with his wife's power of discernment as when he goes home drunk and attempts to play sober. As a rule, the man has cnly taken one drink... He doesen't understand why one drink should make him drunk, but after, a while be acknowledges tbat lie did take two drinks, bat the last one was so small that he bad forgotten it. .The other night when Mr Harvey Blades, a well known official of Arkansas, went home, he had reached that close observing state of intoxication when a man stops and minutely examines the most unimportant objects and makes wise com- ' ments. In this state of drunkenness a man takes notice of every household article. - Every, chair demands a certain amount of attention! After sitting down with studied gravity,, Mr Harvey Blades noticed a feather lying, on the floor. He debated for a while whether or not it should be an illustration of sobriety to remove it, and remembering that he had often seen his wife pick.feathers from the carpet after having jammed the pillows in making the bed, he arose, took up the feather, " exsmiiTed it a moment, raised a window and Jthrew- it out. This performance did not entirely satisfy him, for in his mind there lurked a suspicion that his wife might fancy him to be drunk., In looking around for another test he discovesred the ■water-bucket. He knew that to bring fresh .water beyond a doubt would settle , the question of his sobriety, so he took up the bucket and went out to the well. Feeling around and not finding the " mosscovered bucket," but deciding tbat it must

be at the bottom of the Weil, he began to turn the windlass. For fifteen minutes Jie turned the crank. " Deepest well I erer saw," he mused, and continued to grind. After a while his wife came out and said: "Harvey, what in the name of common sense are you doing ?" " Try'n to draw bucket water. Deepest well ever saw. Grindin' for hour, bucket not up yet." '.'•.' " Why don't you know that we had the well cleaned out, and that the bucket has been taken ofi 1? Come on away. You are as drunk as a fool." t> . "Keenest observation I ever saw, said the gentleman to himself. " Never saw a thing like it.";