Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1906-11-24
SLIPS OF THE TONGUE.
Some of the Queer Bulls That Have
Been Recorded.

Been Recorded.
That man made remark that
had better have been left unsaid
who, when the king found some
fault with the earl marshal for some
details Of the coronation ceremony,
replied, "Please, your majesty, l
hope it will be better next time"
Lord Oxford tells the following,
which he charactcrizes as the best
''bull" he ever heard: 81 hate that
woman" said a gentleman, looking
at one who had been his nurse. Il
hate that woman, for she changed
me at nurse" A gentleman was
once complimenting Nine. Denis on
the manner in which she had just
enacted the part of cara. ''To act
that part" said she, ga person
should be young and handsome"
"Ah, madam" replied the would be
complimentcr, ''you are complete
proof to the contrary" which was a
faux pas with vengeance. 1t was
at an execution in Ireland that the
rope broke and the half hanged VIC
tim fell to the ground, when the
person who was experimenting the
execution said, "You rascal, if you
do that again III kill you as sure as
you breathe"
1t was an Irish mayor who issued
a proclamation stating that certain
business would be transacted in that
city except Monday Easter Sun
day only excepteD, which is capped
by the preamble of an English bill
which ordained that certain regula-
tons should take place son every
Monday" TUESDAY exccpted), while
an English mayor ran this close in
a proclamation and an advertise
mcnt relating to some forthcoming
races, wherein it was stated that
"no gentleman will be allowed to
ride on the course but the horses
that are to run"
Another ''bull" of the legislature
which actually found its way OH to
the statute book was that in which
in amending an old act it was or
dained in the event of conviction
that of the fine of 10 shillings, half
was to go to the king and half to the
informer. In the amending act this
was altered to 80 strokes with the
birch, half to go to the king ard
half to the informer," which only
tends to show that the craftsmen of
the laws of the nation are not al
ways as careful as they might or
should be. Of course, perhaps, the
poor things are overworked or tired.
Shakespeare has been guilty of
more than one literary "bull," one
of his best being in the first portion
of "Henry ~" wherein the carrier
complains that ''the turkeys in his
pannicrs ere quite starved" the
phrase occurring in the fifth scene
of the second act, whereas turkeys
came from America, and the new
world was not even discovered for
century later. Again, in the first
scene of the fifth act of "Henry w
wherein Cover is made to say to
Fluellen, "Hcre comes Pistol, smil-
ing like turkeycock," all of which
proves the appositeness of the re-
mark that even Homer sometimes
mods, as Shakespeare did in these
and other instances. Many others
could be deduced, but the above ex-
amples will suffice.
Going step higher, we find the
lord lieutenant of Ireland of for
mer day equally at fault in his LAM
guage, 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 consumpy
ton of potatoes" etc. Mr.. Grey
tells of a lawyer who in an action
for assault and battery informed the
judge that "the defendant beat his
client with a certain wooden instru-
ment called an iron pestle, "-Lonr
don Standard.