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Show A Ministerial Joke'. Ministers like their little jokes as well as any one else. Chaplain Wharton, of the Grand Army of the Republic for the state of Wisconsin, is no exception, and he perpetrated one a while ago which acted as a boomerang; it came back and hit him hard. It was at some great G. A- B- affair, where speeches were being made, and one speaker desired to refer to the incident mentioned in the Bible where some one tied the tails of two hares together. The speaker was at a loss to remember who this person was, and he asked the chaplain. With face as sober as a judge, that gentleman said it was Goliah. The speaker went on with his talk and made his reference, speaking Goliah's name in all confidence. Some one behind pulled his coat tail and said in a whisper: "It was not Goliah; it was Absalom." This rather knocked him out for a moment, but quickly recovering re-covering he said: "Well, there appears to be a little discrepancy about who it was that tied the hares' tails together. As I was not sure about it myself I went to Chaplain Wharton, thinking he should be authority on the matter, and he told mo it was Goliah." Tliis so completely tnrned the laugh upon the chaplain that the speaker got back his composure and finished his remarks in good style. Chicago Herald. |