The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-05
SOME BULLS.
Many Of Them, of Course, Are of
Irish Origin.
From the London STANDARD.

From the London Standard.
Ihat man made remark that had bet
Ter nave been unsaid, who, when the king
FOUND some fault with the Earl Marshal
Tor some details of the coronation cere-
mony, replied, please. your Majesty
hope it will be better next time T6rd
Orford tells the following, which he char
Il hate that woman" said a gentleman
looking at one who had been his nurse II
hate that woman. for she changed me at
nurse. \ gentleman was once commit
menting Nine. Denis on the manner in
which she had just enacted the part of
cara. TO ace that part" said she, /" a per-
son should be young and handsome" - An
madame, replied the would-be compli-
menter, you are a complete proof to the
contrary. Which was a faux pas with
vengeance 1t was at an execution in Ire
land that the rope broke, and the half
hanged victim fell to the ground. when
the person who was experimenting the ex-
ecutlon Sald; GU rascal, If you do that
again III XIII you as sure as you breathe"
1t was an Irish mayor who issued a pro-
clamation stating that certain business
would be transacted in that citv every
Monday easter Sunday only excepted"
which is capped by the preamble of an
English bill, which ordained that certain
reSulatlons should take place ION every
Monday CTuesday excepted0" while an
English mayor ran this close in a procla-
nation and an advertisement relating to
some forthcoming races wherein it was
ed TO ride on the course but the horses
that are to run"
Another "bulr' of the legislature which
actually found its way on to the statute,
book, was that in which, in amending an
old act. it was ordained in the event of
conviction that of the fine 30 shillings
half was to go to the king and half to the
informer. In the amending act this was
altered to forty strokes with the birch
half to go to the king and half to the
informer," which only tends to show
that the draughtsman of the laws of the
nation are not always as careful as they
might or should be. OF course PERHAPS
the poor things are overworked or tired
our own immortal bard has been guilty
of more than one literary bull" one of
his best being in the first portion of Hen
ry ", wherein the carrier COMPLAINS
that the turkeys in his panniers are
quite starved the phrase occurring in
the nth scene of the second act, whereas
turkeys came from America, and the new
world was not even discovered for a
century later. Again, in the first scene
of the fifth act of Henry v" wherein
Cover is made to say to Fluellen Here
comes Pistol smiling like turkey-cock:'-
all of which proves the appositeness OF
the remark that even Homer sometimes
mods, as Shakespeare did in these and
other instances. Many others could be
fic
Going a step higher, we find the Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland of a former day
equally at fault in his language, for in a
proclamation issued from the council
chamber OF Dublin, we find it set forth
that, Whereas, the greatest economy is
necessary in the consumption of all species
of grain, and especially in the consume
ton of potatoes" etc. Mr.. Grey tells OF
a lawyer who, in an action for assauIr
and battery, informed the Judge that "tbe
defendant beat his client with a certain
wooden instrument called an iron pestle"