Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-06-26

rock the cradle, and so annoy his friends
on a visit that they rarely came to see
him again, except when they knew that
Mrs. Hooker, with her spiritual sar-
casm," was not at home. To Cranmer,
repining that lis wife should not prove
more comfortable" Hooker replied:
my dear George, if saints have usually
double share in the miseries of this
life, /, that am none, ought not to repine
at what my wise Creator hath appointed
for me, but labor as indeed | do daily
to submit mine to His will, and possess
my soul in patience and peace"
The famous DR.. Parr had a wife who
used to quarrel with her husband for
expending so much money for his books
while be allowed his library chairs to be
sadly out of repair. One dsy, meeting
him in the library, she exclaimed: " Mr..
Parr, we should have new chairs for the
library; they are in very sad way"
Il cannot afford it, Mrs Parr,' quickly
replied the doctor. Not afford it'
returned the lady, when you can afford
to give ten guineas for q musty book
which you never openW II tell you |
cannot afford it, vociferated the doctor,
growing angry with his wife's obstiDacy
Not afford it2f slowly said the lady,
when your rents are coming in so fast
(pointing to fast widening gaps in her
husbands garments), when you are in
as much need of repair as the library
chairsW DR.. Parr, who had expected q
scene, quietly collapsed at his wife's
mastery humor, and Immediately sent
for the upholsterer and the tailor, com
pletely vanquished by his wife's sharp
ness.
Although James Ferguson, the cele-
brated astronomer, in his autobiography
does not once allude to his wife's con-
duct, it has been well ascertained that
her temper was not the most coRgenial
One anecdote illustrating the fact has
come down to us. 1t appears that one
evening in LONDON while he was deliver
ing lecture on astronomy, his wife
entered the lecture room in o passion
and maliciousty knocked down several
pieces of the apparatus Ferguson
calmly surveyed the catastrophe, and
turning to the audience, quietly said:
Ladies and gentlemen, have the mis-
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Even great artists have not been free
from the sharp action of shrews. The
wife Of Albert Durer compelled that re-
nowned painter to toll merely to crafty
her own misery disposition, and when,
in disgust at her wretched treatment, he
ran off she allured him back to his death
bed. Disraeli the elder relates of Berg
hem that his wife would constantly keep
him busy, and she contrived an odd ex-
pertinent to detect his Incidence. He
worked in room above her own; ever
and anon she cheered him by humping
a long stick against the ceiling, while
the meek, obedient Berghem answered
by stamping his foot on the floor, and
clenching his fist, too, perhaps, to sat.
isfy his wife that he was not mapping,
but that he still lived
Moliere was extremely unfortunate in
his wife. Captivated by the grace and
vivacity of the actress, Bejart, he mar
ried her, only to find that after marriage
her grace became converted into giddi.
ness, and her vivacity into coquetry.
Her vanity and artifces often drove him
to despair. She had no pity, to use his
own words, for his sorrows, and ensnsred
by the desire of general admiration,
laughed at his anXieties.