The man did not understand and continued as before.
"Speak to the jury, sir, the men sitting behind you on the raised benches." Turning, the witness bowed low in awkward suavity, and said, "Good-morning, gentlemen." "What are these ?" asked Napoleon, pointing to twelve silver statues in a cathedral.

"The twelve Apostles," was the reply.

"Take them down," said Napoleon, "melt them, coin them into money, and let them go about doing good, as their Master did." "I don't think the Proverbs of Solomon show very great wisdom," said a student at Brown University; "I could make as good ones myself." "Very well," replied President Wayland, "bring in two to-morrow morning." He did not bring them.
"Will you lecture for us for fame ?" was the telegram young Henry Ward Beecher received from a Young Men's Christian Association in the West.
"Yes, F.A.M.

E.

Fifty and my expenses," was the answer the shrewd young preacher sent back.
Montaigne tells of a monarch who, on the sudden death of an only child, showed his resentment against Providence by abolishing the Christian religion throughout his dominions for a fortnight.
The triumphs of tact, or common sense, over talent and genius, are seen everywhere.