Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-03-10

closest scrunity. With such pressure it
would proptly give way, but would re-
sumo its position as soon as the pressure
should be removed. The Rev. Mr.. Sun
bright weighed precisely 172 pounds, and
it was calculated by the ingenious juvenile
mlscreant-as it will shortly be necessary
to call him-that the momentum of the
average stamp of the pastors foot would
lnfalllbly be equivalent to an increased
pressure of Is pounds. As the result
showed, this calculation was correct, and
the arrangement of the lever and weight
was made with admirable skill.
1t Vas about the middleof the next Sun
day mornings sermon, when the Rev.
MIR. SunDright was eloquently denounc
ing the corruption of the church of Rome
that he executed ore of his ablest and
most convincing stamps and tisappeare d
fromview witt. Startling celebrity. The au-
dience looked upon his disa ppearance as
new rhetoric figure, and wei filled with
admiration. One young man, who had
visited New York, whispered quite au-
dibly that he had seen both TIE. De Witt
Talmade and Geo. L. Fox, and that Meth
er of them had ever executed so neat and
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went, but, the pastor did not reappear.
Doubtless, SO the people thought, he was
waiting to give full effect to his eloquence,
but after time they be bame somewhat
surprised at the unusual pause in the
services.
Presently an elder arose and said that
their beloved pastor evidently intended
his hearers to spend a lite season in
meditation, whereupon everyone medi-
tated with great assiduity for five minutes
longer. At the expiration Of this time it
was feared that Mr.. Sunbright might have
fallen down in a fit, and three gentlemen
simultaneously went into the pull pit, and
amid general CONSERVATION reported that
he had totally vanished. The excitement
that ensued was tremendous, and the
meeting broke up in disorder. No one
ventured to explain the mysterious disap-
pearance except an elderly single lady,
who suggested a sudden ra id on the part
of envious angels. This story rapidly
gained adherents, in the absence Of any
oppo site theory, and might have been
generally accepted had not faint knock
ing beneath the pulpit been heard. In ex-
animation was instituted, and Mr.. Sun
bright was discovered, much abraded as
to his surface, and inwardly filled with
righteous Indignation.
Fortunately, he had sustained no serious
injury, and he was conveyed into the ad-
joining lecture-room ana subjected to
variety of soothing processes by the local
medical man. There probably never was
q worse small boy than the ingenious con-
trivcr of the trap. To certain extent he
has cxpiated his ofense, but Mr.. sunbright
is firmly convinced that there is no pun
ishment that will do justice to the ulprit,
in which opinion all respectable persons
will agree. AT present thesmall boy studies
as we'll as recites on his feet; but that cir
cumstance, with all it implies, gives but
transient comfort to the injured minister.
The pulpit floor, as we'll as Mr. Sunbright,
have since been thoroughly repaired, but
the painful incident deserves to be noted,
partly as a warning to Mr.. Talmadge and
partly as melancholy evidence that
Birchville possesses positively the worst
of all existing small boys.