EVEN WITH HIM.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVIII, Issue 2, 9 May 1890, Page 19

EVEN WITH HIM.

One of the most striking cases ot facial resemblance in public life, writes the correspondent of the Chicago Herald, is that of Congressman Goodknight, of Kentucky, and Postnc .ster General Wanamaker. Mr. Goodknight was in the House restaurant recently drinking a glass of tbe famous beverage of bis State, when an elderly and spectacled man approached him and exclaimed : " Why, Mr. Wanamaker, what are you doing ?" " Simply taking a drink of whisky," replied the Congressman. " Then— then you do drink whisky, Mr. Wanamaker ?" gasped the old gentleman.

" Why, certainly.''

The stranger lifted his hands in holy horror, and, apparently overcome by the discovery, muttered that the " folkp up in Philadelphia won't believe it whenjl tell 'em " and moved away.

"That's the only way in which I can get even with Wanamaker for looking like me," s .id Mr. Goodknigbt. " This is the third or fourth time that I have been mistaken for the Postmaster General while taking a drink ; and I have not exertel myself very much to correct the mistake. But I suffer through the resemblance of our faces fully as much rs Mr. "Wanamaker does. People mistake me for him and fail to ask me to take something with them."

A good story is told about tbe Hod. Alfred Deakin, one of Victoria's lepresentatives at the late Fedeial Conference. Beiore he took to politics, be was a leader-writer for the Melbourne Age. A well-known Irish wit meetiug tbe editor of that journal one day, aiiily remarked : " I say, you ought to have something more than a Deacon in your office — something higher — you ought to h°,ve a bishop on your staff." "A bishop? Why so?" "Because your statements are so tadly in need of confirmation."

It ie Slid that dunng tbe trial of Mr. Benscn at .Nice considerable difficulty was felt as to the correct French rendering of " Jubilee Juggins." Tt.eie need have been no difficulty at all. A " Juggins " is modern slang for the older " Pigeon," and j)igro)i in Frencu nas the same meaning. The surprising thin* is tbat no nouu other than a slang noun has ever been found for i<. olish youths who are tbe prey of people sharper than themselves, and >et such youths must have been known in tbe earliest stages of human civilisation. " Gull," " gudgeon," and "pigeon," are clearly slang; and even "dupe," which has not quite the same meaning, was probably a slang name when first used. Its denva'ion, however, is unknown, and there is no evidence in support of the suggestion that it is a corruption of dwppi' or huj)}>e, nor, indeed, that a hoopoe is a particu'arly eilly bird.

The B auficationof ihe venerabieJßishop Ancina, contemporary and fnend of St. Philip Neri, took place at Bt. Peter s, in the Loggia, without the presence of the Pope, either at tbe cpremoay itself or at the Expoti ion and Benediction in the afternoon, His Holiness keeping his own apartments owinf to his affliction athis brother's death. Nor was the intended Italian pilgrimage in Homo, by reason of the influenza. 'Ihe Blessed Giovanni Ancina was precouised in the same Conbisiory as St. Fruncis of Bales, with whom he exchanged puns that were pious and comphmentaiy, but otherwise incomplete. '' Tues sal terrae," eaid the Bishop of Saluces to St. Fiancis of Sales, who replied "Tues vere sal et Ivx." The new lieato was deeply versed in Chuich music, and worked with Palestrina at its reform. — Weekly Hegister.