Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1880-02-12
Nice Distinctions.

all but lmperceptble.
For instance, an old Highlander, re.
preached by his pastor for absenting
himself from church one Sabbath morn
ing, denied the charge, repeating the
denial so emphatically that the puzzled
minister asked him if he would offer
his oath that he was there that morn
ing. "To be sure" was the unbashed
ones answer; and the minister said no
more. A friend of the false speaking
Highlander told him it was awful to
hear him offer his oath to such q lie.
"Hoot, toot, man." quOth Donald.
"Isn't there q great difference between
offering thing and giving it?'
1t is ofttimes convenient to be able
to discern such differences. When a
party Of Paisley weaVers, anxious to
cross the Clyde from Greenock to Du-
noon one Sunday morning, desired the
Captain of Rothesay steamer to take
their boat in tow, as they did not care
to profane the day by using their oars,
the Captain wanted to know where was
the difference between employing their
oars and employing the steamer s pad
dies.
"The differencer' exclaimed the
spokesman of the conscientious crew.
"There's a great difference between
rowing by the power O. man, who must
answer for what he does, an wheel
turning engine; steam engines not a
moral being, an is therefore not an ac-
oOI1uta hIn appnt ~
A specious argument, certainly, but
one much more easy to answer than
that advanced by farm servant, will
ing enough to milk her masters COWS
on the Sabbath, but firm in refusing to
feed them on that day. Drawing nice
metaphysical distinction between what
are and are not works of necessity, the
shrewd lass said:
"The COWS Gamma milk themselves, so
to milk them is clear work of necessi-
ty; but let them out to the fields, and
they'll feed themselves.
When Captain Robinson was survey
ing the west coast of Scotland, the
Grand Duke Constantine came on
board bis ship for few days. Anxious
to show his royal guest as much as lay
in his power, Captain Robinson steamed
over to Iona one Sunday, to give the
Russian Prince an opportunity of ex-
amining the antiquities there. The
custodian of the ancient church fatty
refused to open its doors.
edo you know whom | have brought
with meP" inquired the disgusted Of
ticer.
"He's the Emperor of a. the Russias,
l ken by the flag" responded the
keeper. But had it been the Queen
herSer, I wadna gle up the keys on the
Lords Day."
The Iona keeper, however, was yet
not invulnerable, for Captain Robinson
asking him if he had any objections to
drinking glass of whisky with him up
on the Sabbath, he replied:
"That's 8 different thing entirelym
DR.. Wardlaw, finding the six-mile
walk between his house and his church
in Glasgow too much for. old legs to
compass comfortably, enlisted the serv-
ices every Sunday of sturdy pony.
One day a meeting was held to protest
against railway companies running
trains upon Sunday, and the doctor de-
claimed eloquently against the threat
ened desecration. When he had done,
somebody in the crowd urged request
that he would repeat the fourth COM
mandment. The unsuspecting doctor
did so, and then the same voice in
quired if the law did not apply as much
to the pony as to the OK and the ass.
The inference was too palpable to be
ignored, and the next two Sundays the
doctor walked to church; but the third
saw him astride his pony again. He
explained that, having consulted the
early fathers of the church and the di-
vines of Geneva, he had come to the
conclusion that the institution of the
Lords day, as observed by all Christian
churches and sects, applied to mankind
only; and that, in appointing the first
day of the week to be the Sabbath of
the Christians, instead of the seventh,
which was the Sabbath of the Jews, the
was to leave the Sabbath of
the brute creation as it originally stood
therefore he had again taken to the
pony, which of course he never worked
on Saturdays.
When John Dalton was q lad, Elihu
Robinson invited him to join young
man named Anderson in studying at his
house of an evening. A dispute arising
between the two students as to the
working out of difficult problem, AL
dorson clinched his argument by offer
ing to bet Dalton sixpence he was
right. Objecting to betting, Mr., Rob
inson vetoed the proposition; but sug-
gested that whichever proved to be in
the wrong should find candles for both
during the winter season; although
where the difference lay, save that the
stake involved was larger, we fail to
see.
One of Brougham's earliest appear
ances as an advocate was in behalf of
q man accused of stealing pair of
boots. The evidence as to the theft
was conclusive, but Brougham con-
sended that his client must be acquitted,
jhe articles stolen being half boots,
which he argued were not boots any
more than a half guinea was q guinea,
1r half loaf a whole one.
Lord Eskgrove, knowing his man.
guessed that he was being played upon,
10 without asking the prosecuting coun-