BISHOPS AT PLAY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11207, 13 October 1914, Page 4

BISHOPS AT PLAY.

Bishop Samuel Wilberforco abounded in riddles and playful jests. Here is a question he once asked of tho_ then Archbjshop of Oxford. :i Why is :m archdeacon's apron like unwholesome food?" The. good man replied, thoughtfully, that he did not know. " Because," said the bishop, " it goes against the stomach." "Who has been tho greatest financier in the world's history?" "Noah, because he successfully floated a limited company, whilst the rest of the world was iu liquidation.-' "What is the first, banking transaction mentioned in the history of the world?" ' " When Pharonh received a check at the bank of the Red Sea. which had be°n crossed bv Moses and company." These lines are copied from an old book: "Written on a looking-glass— I chnnge, and so do women too; But I reflect—that women never do. " Answered by a lady—- " If women reflected, 0 scribbler 1 declare, What- mart, faithless man, would be blessed by the fair/ 1 Archbishop Whateley once asked a

friend, the difference between a look-ing-glass and a lady. "It consists in tho one reflecting without speaking, and the other speaking without reflecting." Another of Whateley's questions was: 'lf Satan lost his tail, where should he go to find.a new one?" And without giving time for an answer, he himself replied, "Totlie gin palace, for bad spirits are retailed there."