, 1874-06-28

| to dig his dog ont. and then went down and tolo
| his clerks what he bad done, and added,
merciful man is merciful to hi8 beast" i3ut AZ
ter lie left home the uelghbora So" bis wife and
| daughtor shoveliDg out paths through the suo"
and carrying Ii coal
4 kind-hearted but somewhat veak-headed
| Scotch,nau got into the pulpit OF the pa1lsh
| church one Sunday before the minister, VINO
! happened on that day to be rather behind time.
Como down, Jamie" said the minister, :. that's
| my place." t. Como ye up, Sir, replied jamie
"they're sti1f-necked md rebollions genern-
ton, the people o this place. aud it Will take us
bath to manage thom."
Slightly sarcastic was tho Clergyman who
pauaod and addressed a man coming into church
altar the sermon had begin, with the remark
" Glad to zee yOu, Blr come in a!Ways eiad 70
see those here late who can't come emily and
decidedly self-possessed vas the man thus i'd
dressed, in the presence OF an astonishcd con-
| g1egas1ou, as he herospocded - Thaukyou; would
you favor Inc with the text -
Clergyman and choirs ought to make sure IN
advance that their hymns chino in With the oc-
casion. For example: Not far from the City of
Bangor thore WAS recontly baptlsIn and among
the converts was black girl Of great alze. AL
went on smoothly until tbs colored woman was
immersed Just M the minister wns putting her
under the watar, the choir on shore sang, most
innocent}y:
Ths morning light il breaking,
The darkuess daap- ears.
A Scotch correspondent Of the Interior,
syrpathizing aatirically with widowed mother
Who lives 70 far from the church that she can
not send her children to Sunday y-Bcaool, moaus
out: " Waes me! and will they hao nae chance
to skirl AVA in BIC ed,fyin' melody as Oh ant
glad Tn in this army 7 and sic brave hi d,ddle
diddle singing every Lords day, to the prise o
Him 'who sltteth upon the circle OF the hoayens.'
And will they never hae = chance to read sic
moral huiks IS Rad-eyed Zekc, OF Death in the
Pot or tho Broken -nosed Cannibal,' or the
Dread Mystery O. Puckerbush 2 Weel, weel,
Bu' ye can ma hae a these, max the maist O
what 70 posaess-"
Speaking Of the white cravat which Comnao-
dore Vanderbilt always weals, one OF his friends
asked him one daY If it did not secure for him =
good many clerical favors. Tho Commodore re-
Piled that he did not remember OF auy important
advantage lhat be had ever derived from Wear
ing It.; but said that he had sometimes been mis-
taken for clergyman, and once rather ludi-
crously, He waa eorllng downtown i'll Fourth
avenue car, When two young men entered, both
drunk enough to be in the oon6ding mood. Per-
ceiving the snowy locks and the whto hAndker-
chief on the other ride OF the car, one Of them
nudgad the other with his elbow, aud than moY-
ing down On the seat until he WAS directly oppo-
1ite TO the Commodore, leaned over aud said, in
maudlln whine: II sposeyeE tuink't I'm agoin'
straight down to h(hlc)ell, don't yer7" Why
-uo; hope not" answered the Commodore,
deprecatingly. The young man edged back to
the side Of bis companion. - He's Un've1s'lst
(hlcl," hn said, in knowing tona. Plainly it
would not do to take any spiritual ADVICE from
such 1erotic.