A GENTLE HINT.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XV, Issue XVI, 19 October 1895, Page 504

A GENTLE HINT.

A minister preaching was annoyed by people talking and giggling. He paused, looked at the disturbers, and said, * Some years since, when I was preaching, a young man, who sat before me was constantly laughing, talking, and making uncouth grimaces. I paused and administered a severe rebuke. After the close of the service a gentleman said to me, ‘ Sir, you made a great mistake; that young man was an idiot.’ Since then I have always been afraid to reprove those who misbehave themselves in church, lest I should repeat that mistake and reprove another idiot.’

The new woman’s club has passed a resolution that as the new ironclad is spoken of as * she' it ought to be known as a woman-of-war, not a man of-war.

* Have you read Jones’ book ; it seems to me I’ve read something like it before, but so far I’ve not heard anyone accuse him of plagiarism ?’ * Oh, I don’t know, he told me himself that he wrote with a steel pen.’