Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1891 — Quick Wit. [ARTICLE]

Quick Wit.

One of Lord Carmarthen’s future constituents once asked the youthful candidate his opinion upon some abstruse question of which he knew nothing. “Let him alone!” cried another, derisively; “don’t you see he’s nothing but a baby?” “What do youthink?” reiterated his inquirer, heedless of the interruption and determined to have an answer. “I think,” said Lord Carmarthen, with ready wit, “that it is high time for all babies to be in bed;” and so saying he gathered up his papers and disappeared from the platform. Again —and this last anecdote is so well known as to have become historical—at a crowded meeting just before his election, he was interrupted by the question: “Does your mother know you’re but?” “Yes, she does,’ f was the instant retort, “and by Tuesday night she will knots I’m in.” His prophecy proved correct and he headed the poll by a large majority. It is stated that in England recently an incandescent electric light was burned for 11,561 hours, and on being ' removed from the holder the filament was found to be still whole and sound.