The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1900-09-06

II Is recorded that Pope Gregory XVI.
offered his snuff-box to a cardinal, who
declined 1t, saying, mo. your holiness,
| have not that vice" to which the
Pope replied in a thoroughly human
way. "lf IL had been a vice you would
have had it,
Thomas X. Beecher, who recently
died, once prefaced a sermon preached
at Plymouth, for his brother, with the
startling intimation: "All those who
have come here 10 worship Henry
Ward Beecher will now have u chance
to retire; all those who have come to
worship God will remain"
1t Is said that the Rev. Sydney Smith
could be gallant as well as witty ON
occasion. "Oh, Mr.. Smith, | cannot
bring this flower to perfection" said IA
young lady TO him once as she showed
him about her conservatory. Where
upon he took her by the hand, and said:
Then let me bring perfection to the
flower"
When President Kruger was last In
England, he received visit from the
Duke of Abercorn, in the course OF
which his grace informed Dom Paul"
that he himself had been for years a
member of the British lower house,
and that his father had been lord-lieu-
tenant of Ireland. The President evil
IDENTIFY considered that his guests pres
ent rank was a great rise IN life, for he
exclaimed, hastily: "Oh, that is moth
ing; my father was only shepherd"
Archbishop Temple, OF Canterbury, is
always made impatient of bores, espe-
cially clerical bores. One of the clergy
OF his diocese, who had pestered him a
good deal recently, wrote an inordi-
nately long letter describing "A picture
which he proposed to put up In the
ehancel of the church. and asking per-
mission to do so. BY the time his grace
reached the end of the epistle his pa
tience was quite exhausted. and he re-
piled on a postcard: Dear Blank
Hang the plcturew The clergyman is
still wondering how he ought to re-
gard the reply.
A private in the Dublin Fusiliers,
who collected a number of bullets in
his body, and is even more bored by
inquisitive visitors to the Mooi River
Hospital. was visited by a pompous
legislator from Cape Town. He weari-
ly described his wounds. Two bullets
through his helmet, one in his shoulder,
another in his ''fut," and two explosive
bullets through his left breast. Its a
wonder you weren't killed." said the
legislator; they must have passed
perllously near the region of the heart"
They did, that, bedad," said the Fusi-
lier, but | was right enough, for sure
me heart was In me mouth for safety"
Thomas Sheridan, the Irish clergy
man and grandfather of Richard Brins-
ley Sheridan. the dramatist, had a
great distaste for metaphysical discus
sions, whereas his son Tom, the actor,
had great liking for them. Tom one
day tried to discuss with his father the
doctrine of necessity. Pray, father"
said he, "diu you ever do anything In a
state of perfect INSTRUMENTATION
motive, l mean, of some kind or other?"
Sheridan, who saw what was coming
said, Yes, certainly" ''Indeed?'
Yes, indeed" What, total lndffer-
ence-total, entire, thorough indiffer-
encey' Yes, total, entire, thorough
Indifference" MY dear father" said
Tom, tell me what II is that you can
do with (mindD total, entire, thorough
indifference why. listen to you,
Tom" said Sheridan.