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Show Bishop Saw the Point. Long before tho present Bishop of London Arthur Ingram -attained his present position, and, Indeed, before ho wns Bishop of Stepney, he was tho Dean of Snllsbury, being then about thirty years old. Ho tells tho following-anecdote of his first meeting, after aft-er ho becamo dean, with tho sexton, nn aged man of eighty. Tho new deau asked if he had not been soxton for many years, to which tho latter made the chcorful roply: "Yes, an' I'vo burled six deans already," al-ready," sizing up tho slender proportions propor-tions nnd somowhat delicate appearance appear-ance of tho now dean. "Indeed," said the dean, "nnd how do you account for that7" "Well." responded the old mnn with a toothless grin, "I've watched 'em, and I seen that all persons wot gets to be deans eats a soven-courso dinner din-ner as It that wouldn't kill nnybuddy. I 'as only one course to mino, nn' that's why I've been hero to bury 'om all." Tho bishop says he considered tho point a good one, nnd has over slnco J boon rigidly abstemious in dining. New York Times. |