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Show Stood Vp for the Sex. "Now," plaintively perorated the perspiring per-spiring preacher, "is there a man in this congregation who never spoke cross to his wife? If there is, let him rise." Dead silence, in the midst of which a fat, red faced man of 40 solemnly rose to his feet. "Can you truly say," said the preacher, with a warning look in his eye, "that you never spoke a single sin-gle cross word to your wife?" "I can," said the fat man, emphatically. "I ana a bachelor." Sensation, succeeded by giggling on the back seats and a smoth-criiij; smoth-criiij; sentatiou in tb? choir. Oenesoa |