When a clergyman remarked there would be a nave in the church the society was building, an old lady whispered that she knew the party to whom he referred.
A medical authority remarks that "nystagmus, or oscillation of the eye-balls, is epileptiform affection of the cerebellular oculomotorial centres." We had forgotten this; and by the way, it is singular how these simple little points will escape one's mind.
An Illinois clergyman is reported to have startled his people recently by the singular announcement: "Remember our communion service next Sunday forenoon. The Lord will be with us during the morning services, and the bishop in the evening."
Emerson said, "Every man would be a poet if his intellectual digestion was perfect." This shows that indigestion is a blessing after all.
This importance of a comma is shown by the following notice read in a Michigan church recently: "Dr.—will deliver a lecture on Saturday evening of this week. Subject: "The Circulation of the Blood in the Baptist Church."
" Whar ye bin?" he asked, as the other boy
came round the corner.
"To the doctor's."
"Fur yer mother?"
"No: fur me."
"What ails ye?"
"Tongue all coated—see there."
"What does that mean?"
"Heaps," chuckled the other.
"That means rhubarb to begin on, and loaf sugar, sweet cake, a velocipede, roller skates, and a jack-knife before I git through! Don't you wish you was me? "
