The herald., 1895-08-26

foreign divine asked the meaning of the
word kippered. and was told that it
meant preserved. The foreigner, in q
public prayer soon after. offered petit
tion that the distinguished divine (Dr.
Chalmers) might long be kippered to the
Free Church of Scotland"
"A Frenchman. SAID Squire Ben, was
once rescued from drowning in the
Thames at London and taken to an ad-
lacent tavern, where he was advised to
water. Addressing the waiter who was
mixing it he said: 'Sare, | shall tank
you not to make it a fortnight "A fort
night" exclaimed the water, hadn't you
better take it directly?' oh, yes, mon
sieur-directly, to be sure, but to a fort
in his jubilee volume" says Uncle
Joshua, records among other good
things curious accident given of the
daily life of one of the foreign singers by
his agent, certain Herr Scbloss. How
does the great man get through his day?'
was asked of Herr Schloss. Veil, he
sings, was the reply. Yes, but what
else? He does not sing all day?' Vel. he
get up in re morning; he haf breakfast,
mid goot shlice of German snausage, and
he eat vera mooch. Zen ne shmoke, and
ven he finish snmoke he lie down to re-.
pose himself. Zen he shnoke again. He
shmoke vera mooch after Eat he dine.
Zen he lie down and repose himself zat
he may get strength to sing in re efening.
Anb after ne sing he haf supper, and
again he eat vera moch md drink mooch
shtout. 10 it go on day py day. He get
up in Se morning. put on his clothes,
and When aoes he take his bath?'
oh, he never wash himself. "
Coming back to Irish bulls,' said old
Bob here is one of the purest breed:
An ltish ber of parliament, in the
latter part of the last century, speaking
of a certain ministers well known love
of BIomney,:: otserved Let not the hon
orable member express contempt for
money, for If there is any one office that
glitters in the eyes of the ho.lorable
member, it Is that of purse bearer-a pen
Sion to MIN is compendium of all the
cardinal virtues. All his statesmanship
is comprehended in the art of taxing;
and for good, better and best in the scale
of human nature, he invariably reads
pence. shillings and pounds. l verify be-
height of his conception, that if the
honorable gentleman were an undertaken
it would be the delight of his heart to see
al! mankind seized with com mon NOR
tality, that he might have the benefit Of
the general burial and provide scarfs and
| hat bands for the survivors, -
1T was Fenchman,I believe" eaid
Uncle Dave, who, III making a classi-
| lied catalogue of books, places Miss Edge
worth Essay on Irish Bulls in the list Of
! Works on natural history; and it was a
| Scotchman who. having purchased a copy
OF it, pronounced her a 'puir. silly body
to write book on bulls, and no ane
word O. horned cattle in it a., forbye the
| bit beastie 1.-THE vignette) ct the begin
ming Examples from the common
walks of life and from periodical litera.
ture may readily be multiplied to show
that these physiological peculiarities, as
We have always fully agreed, are not to
be exclusively attributed to the Irish.
But, if we adopt Coleridge's definition,
| which is that "a bull consists in menta
! juxtaposition of incongruous ideas, with
the sensation, but without the sense, or
connection. we shall find frequent
instances of its occurrence among stand i.
ard authors, for example, Milton, Addi-
son, DR.. Johnson, Shakespeare, Pope,
Dryden, Scott Byron and many others.
! Byron says:
~ stood in Venice on the Bridge OF
Signs.
A palace and prison on each hand.''
He meant. of course palace on one
hand and a prison on the other. DR..
johnson, in his dictionary, defined gar
ret "a room on the highest floor in the
house. and cockloft as the room over
the garrett ST. Walter Scott perpetrated
a curious blunder In one of his novels, in
making certain of his characters behold
a sunset over tho waters of seaport on
the eastern coast of Scotland. Many other
such cases might be cited. ."-Boston Her.
aid.