The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-10-29

what VII portion of The Scripture be intended
read for tho morning lesson. The boys, INC
next morning the old preacher began to rea
at tho bottom OF one page:
| Ana Noah. when he was a hundred years old. toof
| himself q wife, who was
Then. turning over the leaf:
.%S ss s9 s%0 spSs - sod sSFI ps
This. puzzled the good old preacher. H'
took on his spectaclcs. rubbed them. and veri
well. he said after drawing long breath
brethren. / had not seen 1t In this here book
before, but know It 10 true or II would moi
sertion 10 another, portion OF the Holy Bible
that man lie fearfully and wonderfully made"
:, 1t was ap old story. but ono that threw the
on the next day Jerry, simpson used a, story
to Us rat mis- peeOh ne
OF the story about gentleman who built q
time when there was great rivalry to SEQ which
could have the louder whistle. The man built q
Wh %hen he blew the %bss
the first time all the steam went out Of the
boiler. This seemed to be the condition Of tho
pound Of steam in their boiie at the hrst start.
and had drifted into the rushes on the shore to
Jerry n f,s story took magni1cently. The House
laughed at It 50 long that he spent fully
minute In scratching his head.
House the redoubtabie Champ Clark Of Mis-:
souri stuck to his text with the auaintest
teilers in the country. but the only paragraph
In his speech that smacks Of 2 story was his as
serten The House paid the sehests oae
REDUCED to the eonditisns ef the Russian s.ris
Save al the money R in the county, for. as old
Jim Craig OF st. 10 used to say. When dollar
goes down into their capacious pockets the
s sofne 9 hom 1T fnss Farewell vain world I'm
This brought down the House.
was speaking for FREQ silver he was much an
leading Repa6iicsn from Ohio. Mr.. Grosyenor
Finally Moses turned to him and said: '>''''
MY friend. / had almost forgotten you until
ss
Georgia. He cut the head on the terrapn
Good God the. old darke y remarked. that
>, The laughter and applause was terrific. and
ten. Grosyenor made no further attempt to
one OF the best stories told in the debate on
LATE Pence Of Colorado. He
discern the d derence between the ' Goar OF
he Treasury to-day and the dollar of the
treasury under JOhn sherman. To illustrate |
his fact he said that back In Marion county. |
nd. there is a little town on the johnson
tranger came into the town one sunday.
white church and crowd going in. He |
loticed that 1t was Lutheran church. He |
vent on and in the next block saw a little |
,rown church. and was surprised to see that |
was also y Lutheran church. He went back
truck him as strange that in a little town like |
his; hardly able to sustain one church. there
ould be two churches Just alike.
What do You mean" ask ed the landlord.
he stranger told him what he had seen.
Oh" replied the landlord. you are mis-
ken. Those two churches are somewhat
like. but not Just alike. Over in the white
hurch they believe that the serpent tempted
we. and Eve tempted Adam. and Adam fell
mt over in the brown church they think that
dam was bad egg from the start
The majority OF the good stories told in the
louise come from the South and West. They
re usually original. and given in dialect But
l the crowd OF new members who have en-
cred the Fifty-tnird Congress there are, none
Tho begin to approach John Allen. His drawl-
,g tntonation In detailing life in Mississippi
,uches every Congressional midriff. and
lrows the House into convulsive merrtment
AMOS J. CUMAf1Nas