Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-12-24

ing. further Intercepted as to what he
had DONE the bishop said: 1.-The ghost
instantly vanished when [ asked for
subscription towards the restoration of
Peterborough cathedral - Household
Words.
One of the best-known stories in con-
nection with the late Sir Benjamin Ward
Richardson's advocacy of temperance
tells how he had been on visit to one
of the three or four small towns in Eng
land which have no public house. AL
though there were 1000 people there, the
doctor was nearly starving. One day
a young medical man came to Sir Ben
jamin for advice as to taking the prac-
tice, and Sir Benjamin. placing his hands
on the young. doctors shoulders, said
'Takc my advice, and don't. Those
wretched teetotalers not only shirk acct
dents. but, when wounded, heal so fast
that there is neither pleasure nor profit
after the first dressing. WESTMINSTER
Gazette.
DR.. Brewer, in his Dictionary of
Phrase and Fable tells the following
story: 1t is said that Spurgeon used to
practice his students in eXtempore
preaching from a text only disclosed in
the pulpit, and that one of his young
men, on reaching the desk and opening
the note containing his text. read the
single word ''Zaccheus.' He thought for
:: minute or two. and then delivered
himself thus: "Zaccheus was Il little
man. so am /: Iaccheus was up tree,
so am l; Zaccheus made haste and came
down, and SO do l." He suited the ac-
ton to the word.
Mrs. Northside was talking one day
wifi
girl, who had been in this country less
than a year, and who was always rining
for the Emerald isle. Why said
Bridget, "whin l fust kim to this coun-
try Oh cuddent ate anything. The fud
was so quare." 1T was different from
what you had been accustomed to, was
it?' 1T was, num- what did you
have to eat in IrelandT "Oh, we had
petaties, an billed cabbage, an-fru't."
What kind of fruit, Bridget? 20, in
yuns an SIGH, mum. "-Pittsburg Chron-
icle-Telegraph.
Among the features of the sound money
campaign in Minnesota and the Dakotas
were the speeches of Paul B. du Chaillu,
the African explorer. He found himself
very much at home among tn Scandina-
vians who are numerous in that region,
and sometimes talked to them in their
own tongue while he never allowed them
to be bored. If his statement of financial
views was not wholly to their taste he
favored his speech with tales of .gorilas
and aroused the patriotism of his audi
ence by stories of their viking ancestors
In an interview in Chicago on his return
Mr.. du Chaillu said his most convincing
currency argument was his story OF
lunch at Delmonico's i'll 1865, when he
paid $72 in greenbacks for four bottles
of wine--claret and Burgundy of an or
binary vintage.-Harpcr's Weekly.
Attorney Bezaleel Wells teaches Il
class in the Sunday school of Christ
Episcopal church, Tenth and Park
streets, in Kansas City, and one Sunday
afternoon he talked to the children in
the class about the protecting hand of
God, how not even sparrow could fall
to the ground without him taking note
of it and how he numbers each hair or
every persons head. At the end of the
lesson Mr.. Wells asked few questions
in review to see how much of what he
had said had stuck in the memories of
his little pupils.
Nov who is our great PROTECTOR he
asked
'McT<inley..'' promptly answered the
smallest boy in the class.
The Sunday school lesson for the day
was about Solomon's temple, and after
the teachers were through the pastor of
the church spoke a few words to the
whole school and asked Il few questions
in general review. Part of the lesson
had told that the great temple was over
laid with sheets of pure gold, and the
pastor asked.
'Eow was Solomon's temple roofed?'
with sound money!. answered a big
boy.
An Irishman who was laying brick
about four stories above the earth hap
pened to lose his footing. He fell more
than fifty feet to the hard ground below
\ policeman standing across the street
saw the Irishman fall and ran toward
the spot where the poor man had struck
the ground. The Irishman was stand
ing up, busting his clothes, when the
policeman arrived on a run. When he
saw the policeman he jumped back and
threw up one arm to guard his head
from the club: "Phat'ss the NATTER? 2,
he asked. did | come down too fast?'
At an Armenian meeting in the east
end of London the other night Mr..
Benn relieved it's seriousness by the re-
lation of an incident at once .grotesque
and pathetic. At Salvation army
meeting recently, he said, fervent Sal
vationist prayed with all the intensity
of his faith that God would Dreak the
Sultan's heart" with view of course to
the conversion of the barbarous Abdul.
The prayer was interrupted by an addi-
tional petition from one of the devout
company, and it ran thus: ooh, God,
break his neck.'-Tid-Bits.
Darkest Africa.-"And how did you
like my predecessor, King Totem?"
asked the missionary.
'He was very nice" returned the Cam
nibal King. though little stringy.
A Vienna paper relates an amusing in
ci(lent which occurred to a great lady
who had just recovered from a long and
severe illness Seated in her boudoir,
she was looking over the cards of condo
lence that had been left for her while ill.
Among the names of counts. barons and
other Aristocratic sympathizers emilia
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