The St. Johns herald., 1897-09-11
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l >@ANS OL tue <dIOOSlOOhs hC NAOA ! seemed to be in some doubt about the l title, but after moments consultation with another salesman, he came Tor ward and said, blandly: "So sorry we haven't got The Lady or the Rooster but We can give you The Lady or the | Tiger'''
 Stephen Girard, the infdel million aire of Philadelphia, on one Saturday ordered all his clerks to come on the 1 morrow to his wharf and help unload newly arrived ship. One young man replied, quietly: MT. Girard, l cant work on Sunday" You know the rules.' 'Yes, know. I have moth CT to support, but can't work on Sun days" Well, step up to the desk, and the cashier will settle with you" Fol three weeks the young man could mo no work; but one day banker came to l Girard to ask if he cC uld recommend ! man for cashier in 2 new hank. This : discharged young man was at once named as q suitable person. But, said the banker 'ygu dismissed him. "Ios. Bscause he would not wort- 0u Sundays. 4 man who would lose his place for cOnscience's sake would make a trustworthy cashier" And he was appointed.
 Mark Twain once attended a mission ary meeting in Hartford, at which 8 missionary made an address. After | UC+anipo +O fbo oUopi1iD0 ctorI, Of emf fering, Mark Twain said to himself ''For Gods sake, send that plate around, so that I can pour my sym pathy into it. I'll give you these four ne-hundred-dollar bills, and if 1 car l get a piece of paper, I'll write check for something more. I can very well spare little money for a cause like that" But the lecturer went on talk. ing, and as he talked, Twain's enthusi 1 asm calmed. And when the mission ary had been talking for half an hour, '' he continues, "I had saved one of those bills, and when he had talked five min uteS more two of those bills were mine again, and when he had been | talking an hour I had won all four back, and, by gosh, when he finally did , send that plate round, I borrowed ten cents out of it to pay my care-fare ! home"
 President Lincoln, when he was a 1 young lawyer practicing in the courts | of Illinois, was once engaged in case in which the lawyer on the other side made very voluble speech, full of wild statements to the jury. Lincoln opened his reply by saying: My friend who has just spoken to you would be all right if it were not for one thing, and I don't know that you ought to blame him for that, for he can't help 1t. What I refer to is his reckless statements without any ground of truth. You have seen instances of this in his speech to you. Now, the reason of this lies in the constitution of his mind. The mo- ment he begins to talk, all bis mental operations cease, and he is not respon- Sible He is, iA fact. ELucL. lil-- q little steamDUUJ tuuJ l saw oD rua -4lie. River, when I was engaged iu boating there. This little steamer mad q nve- foot boiler and a seven-fOOt whistle, and every time it whistled the engine stopped"
 A member of Congress was going home very late few nights ago Cthe Washington Post says, when he met a young man who was hopelessly drunk. The Congressman happened to know where he lived, and kindly guid- ed him home. The Congressman had no sooner pulled the bell than the door was flung open and tall and vigorous woman appeared. She said not word, but grabbed the intoxicated young man by the collar and gave him shaking that fairly loOsened his teeth. Into the hall she shook him and slammed the door. The Congressman was descend ing the steps, when the door opened again and his friend flew out as if flung from catapult. He landed at the foot of the stairs, and the Congress- man picked him up. He was very much frightened, and he was almost sober. He managed to gasp out: "We don't live here. We've moved last week" The really interesting thing would be to know what happened to the man who does live there.
 The late Judge Richard Clarke pre- sided in the Atlanta circuit of the Su- perior Court when one of the most re- markable murder trials was in prog ress. The evidence was conflicting (says the Washington Postl, and the l judge was called upon to charge the jury on some new and interesting legal points. The judge was rapid talker. In this instance it was very important that every word he spoke should be correctly recorded, and he so cautioned the stenographer. Then Judge Clark began. As he warmed up to his charge he was speaking at the rate of two hundred and fifty words minute. Once he glanced toward the ster0gra- phe~ That worthy official seemed to be uslf-sleo-inE oN-. his work an. au- ! pareuGv writing very slowly. Mir
 , -re you s~.,.ns nly words uown correctly? asked the judge At this the stenOgrapher seemed to wake up. With little concern he replied: That's all right, judge, fire away. am about 1 fifteen words ahead of you now"
 Kind Fate having taken me to Paris (says writer in the Sketch), I sat in corner of the Cafe de la Paix with a | native PariSian. Soon cOhort of ra ga