Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1894 — At a Loss. [ARTICLE]

At a Loss.

The Rev. T. Mozlo.’ says, in his “Reminiscences" of Oxford life, that he one day 'made an ifinocent remark which exposed him to sud.len reproof. He was listening, to Samuel Wilberforce tho younger and a friend, as tho named alternately more than fifty species of pines and Taxolia and becoming imnationt of that cxe cise, he threw in his word: “Yet,” said he. “the meanest grub that preys on thoxjtreoi is higher in the order of creation than all of thorn.” Wrotohed man that he was, to have spoken Tho bishop looked him it; the face and ret trned, with severity. “So you think a bucket of Thames water a nobler object of contemplation than Windsor Forest." As Mr. Mosley 1 said, in telling the incident: “I collapsed, for 1 never <>\oeutei or even attempted a repartee in my life.”