He stepped back, grasped his manuscript, and was just about to
jump from the pulpit, when a deacon on the front seat said, "It's all
right, brother; he has only _been down below to see about the fire_." The
sexton came up and shut down the trap door, the color came back to the
face of the minister, and he went on, though the incident seemed to take
the tuck all out of him.
A traveling man who happened to be at the church tells us that he knows
the minister was scared, for he sweat so that the perspiration run right
down on the carpet and made a puddle as though a dipper of water had been
tipped over there. The minister says he was not scared, but we don't see
how he could help it.
FISH HATCHING IN WISCONSIN.
I would suggest that you permit the subject of the artificial hatching of
fish to engage your attention, and that you appropriate several dollars to
purchase whale's eggs, vegetable oysters and mock turtle seeds. The
hatching of fish is easy, and any man can soon learn it; and it is a
branch of industry that many who are now out of employment, owing to
circumstances beyond their control, will be glad to avail themselves of.
How, I ask you, could means better be adapted to the ends than for the
retiring officers of our State to go to setting on fish eggs?
TRAINS WITHOUT CONDUCTORS.
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