The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1870-11-15
fH,ENgE oF MIND.

| Macauley remarks that ahsent-mind
cdness is the mark Of either genius on
a fool We think that Lord Maeauly
was a little too severe on one of IFS
sides. A mans mind may be so In.
tensely occupied with lofty intmtious
and mspirati, rs that his senses, seem.
ingly, are scarcely awake 30 the real
ities Of the tangible world.
a certain Scottish professor was not
more remarkable Tor his writing on
political economy than for his frequent
uncouscionsaess of what passed before
him, His al scuce of mind was SO re-
markable that his wife once pagered
that she could aecost him in the street.
inquire after the health of herself and
her family, and that he would not rec
ognize her She actually won the
wager. The professor was once taking a
solitary walk on the banks of canal.
INTO which, in bis abstraction, he walk
ed. When within yard Of the center.
an honest woman, washing clothes be-
hind him, bnwled out, Come GOT come
oot, iule bouy or ye'l be droont.
hescwa ming sounds iuvadingthe tym-
phnum Of his professional ear, had the
effect OF making him turn right about,
and forthwith recover the dry land The
good woman concluding him to be an
idiot, sympathetically exclaimed, "Puir
body atwcel they hao muckIe to ans
wer for that let's ye gang yer lane.
A friend tells the following amusing
instance ofabsence Of mind: My grand
father was returning home one evening
from the bayfield, driving his oxen be-
fore a load Of hay. lie had tied an old
mar, which he had beer using, to the
cart behind; but happening TO think Of
one of her Iayoritc tricks of pulling, he
united her gaiI and mounting, rode
astride, still dr. wing the oxen. He fell
ino deep reverie, as was his wont, in
which balky mares and all other ycxa-
uous sublunary matters were banished
from his mind But this serene state
was suddenly broken up by happening
to think, when near home that he had,
when sta ting from the field, tied that
unruly beast to the cart behind In
tircly forgetting the preca ton he h d
aiterward taken lac whirled about only
TO discover that she was missing from
the place and, supposing that She had /
pul ed loose, he rode back at full galiop I
in search Of the vixen In the course
1 half mile he met one Of his neigl- /.
1ors, a stuttcling fellow, 10 whom he
called out 10 know if he had seen any
thing of her. Before the man had half
sum0untcd lis tits (perhaps from a
.omical expression on his iacel the
whole truth flashed into my gfaudiath-
srs IN nd, aud he turned back at full .
speed, without waiting for reply to
lis inquiry, only exicamiHg. "let her
ga VI not look her mp 1utit was too
uc for him te save himself, and his
icighbors ia the old crmout village
lever suffered the story 10 be forgotten
is long as bc lived thet.
We knew Of a young fellow employ
ii iu a store on River street, who was
ine day sent into the cellar to draw a
galion u sperm oil While waiting, he
up piece Of chalk, and ID
minute was absorbed iu * ching tie
profile. TIE profile on the
was capital, but while the
.oung artist was absorbed ia It's Eur-
uts, tllc 0il pursued its way over the
cilar floor. lie was informed be would
@ do igr merchant, hut just now be
& Is a iirstfate New York artist
The following story il told u The ab-
cnt miAdeduess Of clergyman oi the
hurch Of cUtlnd he married rather
.tc iu life, and the marriage toar was
q the continent At one II the haItiug /.
laces Mrs r. red IL the hyme-
ial bower ID advance other lord who =
q ior . une c9gitat ng down staifs
fesen'ly he came ~ himself aud s1m-
.9mng lhe waiter requested 10 be
lown u his bedroom bc was, II
curse showi 10 the room Is which ais
iie haa already retired bat he "a 4
rgoi III about mAtnm5By aad shat
Involved an recuIing Hem tie
2pf-aay a lour turned upou tie /.
sitef aith angry uptrailiag 81 show 4
e hlm hlm q bedroom already oc-
lpiei ~ d woman Uhc Suad4y
pHHg 81 vas dressing in BIS bed
S o. eu chair iu which lay d tray Il