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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 210, 4 September 1868, Page 2

*■ i A blustering raau in a railway carriage said, 'I should like to meet that bishop of , I'd put a question to him that .would puzzle him.' 4 Very r well,' said a voice out of another corner, 'then now is your time, for lam the bishop of ' [it may easily be guessed what]. The man was rather startled, but presently recovered, and said, • ' well, my lord, can you tell me the way to Heaven?' Nothing is easier,' answered the bishop; you have only to turn to the right and go straight forward.' Among the stories of Bishop Blomfield (not already published in his Life) our bishop was fond of this one, which was current at Bowness, where he spent several of his summer holidays. One \day when the Bishop of London was just, starting for a journey among the Lakes, the waiter told him a gentleman wauted to see him. A rather freely-talking person to whom he was complaining of being so stopped, said, 'I should think you d(ee)d the waiter;' he answered, 'ISTo, I "seed" the gentleman.' Again, he was asked, when he was an archdeacon, to certify that a parsonage required some repairs, which belonged to a man who had stuffed birds and beasts all over it, and who said to him, ' you see this staircase is very weak;' he answered, ' well, I am sure it smells strong enough.' — Life of the late Bishop (Lonsdale) of Lichfield. Why are youug ladies given to blushug ? — Because ifc'p a becoming ned. .