The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-09-25
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DAILY REGISTER.
- posh Bulls,
From the British. Quarterly we STAN
pede this drove Of Irish bulls:

From the British, Quarterly we STAN
pede this drove Of Irish bulls:
An Irish coroner, in remarking on
the great mortality Of certain winter,
went on to observe that "there are a
great macy people diving this year who
never died before" 1t must have ben
la brother of this gentleman who. while
playing at cards, noticed that 3 shi ling
WAS d, fic,ent IN the pool, and cried out,
Here ia ashilling short. Who put 1t
inT' 1t VAS Sir Richard Steele who
said to . certain great man whom re
wished to invite, III, sir, you ever
come within a mile Of my house,
1 hope you will stop there" It
being remarked that noble.
mans wife had no children, a medical
man bazardsd. the opinion that he had
noticed such to be hereditary in some
families. AHcountryman who was In
dic,ed for stealing a goose, brought a
neighhor to swear that he remembered
that very goose in his possession ever
since it was q gosling An lrishman
who was prisoner tor stealing a gum
on hearing this defense, preva led on
fellow eountrymsn to swear that he re-
membered the gun in his possession
ever since it was a pistol. The follow
ing description o! very thin man is
not bad: Hes grown so thin hardly
knew him. You are thin and | am
thin, but he ia thinner than both OF us
put together" SIR Boyle Roche was
a living, walking bull, and h S
speech was one continued. blunder.
la D. consequence, large number
Of bulls have been attributed to
him. 10 a speech 10 the Irish Hou-e
of Commons he is said to have remark
Ell: "Siugle mistortunes never come
alone, and the greatest Of all possible
mistortuues is usually followed by a
greater misfortune Paddy Blakes
echn, that answered the question How
do you do, Paddy Blake" with the
words, pretty we'll, thank you, sir,
was iorestalled by the echo OF Charenton,
mentioned by Lord Bacon, which, on
the mention OF tn. DEVILS name, an.
-wered, "Va.t-eu /" The self convicted
freshman, who was looking over a gen
tleman writing some uncomplimentary
remarks, and called out, "you he, you
scoundrel," is to be found in Galland 8
"Paro es remarquables des OrIentaux I"
Horace W.lpole de :la'ei that the
best bull he ever heard was the
9 ,ying OF the man who declared, 81
ate that woman, for sh. changed me
at nurse" This may be traced TO
Sancho Panzs. There are practical
bulls as well as spoken ones, such as
the action OF the man who had DIS
like to q. certain banker, and after col>
|. citing his notes burnt them to spite
him. A quartermaster OF regiment
OF light horse, VITO was both heavy and
tall, jeered an lrishman on the prone
ness OF his cnunrrymen to make bulls
why, you gigantic TOOL" replied the
Irishman, my country never made
such bull as England d d when she
made you Eighth orseman."
1t is hardly fair, however, to confine
these last to one nationality, tor We can
find instances Of bulls in most countries
rhe speech o. mad people OF all nations
will frequently be Iound TO be Iull o.
bulls A lunaric introdu led himself as
the Angel Gabriel TO g-nt'emsn. who
expressed surprise The last time | was
here you tuld me you were Lucl'er."
$50 AM, sir; but it is by different moths
ers. Casriglione. in his "Cortigisno.
rela,ss the following liza ian bull: When
the Florentines were at war with the
Pisa they we're in a tinanci d ditfi:u'ty,
and cit Zen proposed. as II us OF
nbtaining money, that whereas the
Florentines had hitherto levi'd custom
duties at .a;h Of the eleven gates o
their city they should make even
other gates, and thus double their re-
ceiprs A case OF exorbuant charge Tor
~interirg cattle comm G before SIR J"-
SETH T,.vor, Baron of the Excheq 'er
at the Buy a-s rs, the judge said,
"Why friend, ihis is most unreasonable.
| wonder thou art not ashamed, tor |
myself have known a beast wlntered
one whole summer for q notae " We
suspect that the temperance lecturer
who said, Parents you have Chi dren.
or IT you have not your daughters may
have" was an Irishman