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Show Various Matters PHILLIPS BROOKS'S SILENCE. Clilcopro Chronicle. ' Bishop Brooks of Boston occasionally used to surprise those not intimately acquainted with him by sitting silently while conversation was golns on around him briskly. The bishop explained, ex-plained, his rather unwonted taciturnity by reltting that on one occasion while seated in a railroad train opposite an Intelligent-looking man the latter seemed about to say something. ' "I beg your pardon," said the bishop, bish-op, "were .you nbout to make a remark?" re-mark?" ' . ' "No," was the reply. "Oh, T thought you looked as if you were going, to say something to me," answered the bishop . apologetically. "Yes, I am said to be very deceptive that way. I used to say things nnd make remarks as soon as I thought them. I have often thought I had something to say and discovered after I had said It that I ought to have kept silent." And the bishop would conclude his story by saying: "I have found myself in the same position more than onco, so I do not speak until I am reasonably sure that I have something to say.'' , REVENGE. Chicago News, Mrs. A. Ar.d Is she such a terrible cook? Mrs. Z. Terrible is no name for It-Why, It-Why, she burns up everything, breaks all the dishes and chases the children Out of the kitchen with a broom. Mr3. A. GtccIous! Why don't you discharge her? Mrs. Z. Shi I am waiting to give her a good recommendation to some one I dislike. |