The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-10-27

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but the letter y gomez he has used i
in lighting the lamp.
There Is q late striking instance given
of Pere Crafty Who has just been nom,
mated Director ef the Academy o. Paris.
One day, when going to the Sorqonne,
/ where he lectured on theology, be I'm.
agined he had forgotten his watch, and
took it out Of his pocket to see If he
had time 10 60 and fetch It
II is said Of Neapder, the learned
lecturer and ecclesiastical historian OF
Germany, that his sister had to watch
him daily, to see that he did not start
to the University with his night-cap on,
! or with his study-gown and slippers;
and it was not uncommon for him.
when moving aside from the jesting
crowd in the street, TO step into the
gutter, where be walked on and on,
seemingly unconscious where he was
stepping.
The following aneciote illustrates
several things, among Others the pres
ence Of mind Of medical students, and
the absence of ditto sometimes in cab
men: A medical student, returning
home late in a cab, recollected, upon
finding he had nomoney to pay his fare
that be had dropped two sovereigns at
the bottom Of the cab. He told the
cabman, in an agitated manner OF his
losses, and begged of him to wait till
he got candle TO look for them. He
went into the hall to look for one, but
while falling over the chairs in seach OF
a ''lucifer, he heard the cab 90 off.
He ran 10 the door, and, to his astonish-
ment, saw the cab gallop;ng as fast as
il could down the street He hallooe1,
and called, and shouted, but the cab
man was so deaf that he could not hear
him. The medical student, however,
went quietly to bed, and, instead OF re-
preaching himself for the deception he
had practiced on the cabman, he laugh
ed heartily at the ingenious way in
which he had got home for nothing.
A story is told OF a very good elderly
gentleman, an affectionate husband and ;
father, who, upon fire breaking ont in
his home, rushed across the street and
earnestly begged friend who lived op
posite to take care of-his nightcap!
People have been known to throw
glass and crockery out Of a first or sec
ond floor window in order to save it,
when human life and real valuables
were in jeopardy. An old servant was
dragged fainting from house in flames.
When she came 10. she said: Thank
goodness, I've saved thisf' Now, what
she had saved was a parlor broom. Ii
is not everybody who can be ss cool as
q ''Scotchman, who flung himself out
Of sixth story on hearing the cry OF
fire" When he had got half way
down, he found there was no fire at all,
but seeing a friend in the third story
looking out OF the window, said con-
templatively, Eth, Sando, mon, sic IA
az | will haze"
A milkman on the line OF the Hsr-
lem Railroad MAS seen lately driving
Jehu Ike with his milk-wagon on a
four mile heat, thinking he would be
toe late for the train. The villager,
stared as he rushed through the streets
The train WAS already standing at the
depot. He dashed across the track, I
backed up his empty wagon with END
board out turned around, held up hi,
hands and exclaimed, BY jukes. i
that Pete had put them cans
in" A four mile race with an
empty wagon-so much for the mind
Per contra-Stanislaus wife
never forgot herself in any momentary
Fl, OF enthusiasm. She could count the
clock amid his kisses, and look 10 see
whether the pot was boiling with her
eyes full OF tears he had wrung from
them by some moving story. While
he was listening in rapture TO her sing
ing, she would break off in the middle
Of verse TO ask him what she should
cook for supper; and he could never
forgive her having once interrupted
him, while che was listening with deep
emotion to his very best sermon, TO :eli
him not to put on his left stocking the
next morning till she had mendei it