"PESVIOUSNESS."

Observer, Volume 7, Issue 337, 23 May 1885, Page 10

"PESVIOUSNESS."

When "Reverdy Johnson, the famous Baltimore lawyer, was in Grlaagow, he was invited to the art; dinnei', and, falling asleep over the post-prandial speeches (only too natural), woke suddenly on hearing the name " Johnson" in a list of Scotch painters which one of the orators was enumerating, at once. plunged up under the iinprossiDO. that somebody was drinking his health, an:l immediately, and with overflowing-amiability, began returning thanks. The 'spectacle was then presented to the astonished company of the American eagle being restrained by the cont-tails'from swooping at the moon, while the smaller birds endeavoured to explain to it how the case stood. This was on a largo scale, but hardly more amusing than what happened in the home of a Methodist minister nearer home. He had as guests two fellow-preachers who wevo denf. On asking one of them to load in prayer at family worship each supposed he was tho one invited, and so noth kneeled down and commenced. Both being deaf, the host had no little difficulty in stopping one and explaining the precise ttate of tho case.