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Show strangely Forgetful. A poor TOMnorr for names anil faces is at se rious disadvantage to a clergyman. ! Dr. John Hull was leaving his house in Fifth avenue not long.ago, when he Baw yonng man looking at the numbers on the doors. Fronj Homething in his dress and manner Dr. Hull concluded that he must be a receut immigrant from the i Emerald Isle, and therefore a fellow ' countryman. I The stranger was evidently at a loss. ! and Dr. Hall asked him if he could be of any assiHt.-inee. "I am looking for Dr. John nail," aid the young man. "I am he," modestly replied the clergyman. cler-gyman. ; "Are you Dr, Hall?" - "I am." "Did yon come from Ireland?" . "I had the good fortune to be born there. The stranger looked at him for a moment, mo-ment, "Don't you know me, Dr. Haii:r" laid ho. "I regret to say that I cannot place you at this moment, though I may have een yon liefore.-' "Well, I think you have. Why, you baptized me twenty-five years ago in the old country, and yet you have forgotieo, me entirely!" "It was not a time for levity," mild Dr. Hall afterward, in relating the incl-tleni; incl-tleni; "otherwise I might have reminded the young man how strange it was that he should have forgotten the fnco of one who had sustained such an important relation to him in his infancy." New York Tribune. Swift t'ijlau Sailing Craft. We itaw to windward a native boat bearing down upon us under full streas of sail. A Fijian boat is made of a hollowed hol-lowed coconuut log, aharpened at both nid. About ten feet on one side of it is placed a long and slender log of lighter wrxxl, both parts of the craft being at once connected by and supporting a raised platform of bamboo. Much a boat floats on the water liko a cork, and offers no more resistance than a racing shell. A mast art in the center of the platform supports a triangular sail of uiattiug, with the base of the figure upmost. up-most. A very top heavy effect is thus , produced, but nothing can overturn the light vessel owing to the breadth of its base, and it flies through the water like the wind. The catamaran that pursued us easily kept up with the launch, although we drove it at full speed to keep ahead, and with the huge, misshapen mat sail flapping flap-ping and rolling like a great bat's wing as the boat thrashed through the billows, and sent nhowers of ctpray over the glistening glis-tening bodies of the dozen natives who ' stood or squatted nikin the deck, the picture pict-ure was something fascinatingly strange and burbaric and never to le forgotten. When the boat was near us our launch ran under a jutting point, where thickly clustered palms cut off the wind, and the catamaran becoming becalmed got out oars and turned in for the shore. Cor. 13ijiuu Journal. |