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New Zealand Herald, Volume X, Issue 2829, 21 February 1873, Page 3

Temperance motto —Fight for the right and never got tight. Here is a prospectus of Oil City, by aTitusvillt; paper: —A smiill, gnarl.-d, rowzy, knotty, bare-backed up-and-down humped, ruunishouldered, gulty, precipy, and gi-nornlly shotup, seoaped-out, ruvined, inflexibly, irregular, 'greasy, unci slabsidi'd ehanty-ti>wn. A PBACTICiIi IIMJSI'KITION'. —" I Can't bear," said Sydney ri.uit.li, " Co be iinprisonsd iu the true ortuodux wuy in my pulpit, with my head just peeping above the desk. I Hi ; e Lo look down upon my congregation— to lire into them. The common people say I '""■ a boulcl preacher, lor 1 lik« to have my arms free and to thump the pulpit. A siugular contretemps happened I o me once, when to effect tins I had ordered the clerk to pile up some hassocke for me to stand on. My text wu3,' We are perplexed, but not in despair; proaecuted, but not forsaken ; cast down, but not destroyed.' I had aeaicily uttered those words, and was preparing to illustrate thorn, when I did eo practically, and in a way I had not at all anticipated. My fabric ol hassocks suddenly gave way, down I fell, and with difli culty prevented myself from being (irecipi tated. into the arms of my congregation, who, ~1 must say, behaved very well, and recoxerw their gravity sooner than 1 could have ex pected."