Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1898 — Old New Bulls. [ARTICLE]

Old New Bulls.

Some of the English papers are exhibiting a revived interest in Irish “bulls.” The London Telegraph seems to have opened its columns to correspondents, who send tp it the achievements of various Hibernian minds. A great many of those printed are older than any Irishman now living, but some of them are—to us, at least-new. Perhaps the best of them is merely a variation of an old bull* but it is amusing. “I saw some funny things in England when I was over there,” said a Cork man. “The tops of some of the houses were copper - bottomed * will lead.” A gentleman talking of seasickness remarked that ’’nothing on this earth would make him seasick.” This must be a very old bull, for tlie confusion is suggested by the fact that car-sickness is the same malady under a different name. Here is another bull which is an old friend with a new face: The foreman of a grand jury in the West had been presented for some public service with a gold watch, of which he was very proud; and as he displayed it at a dinner of the grand jury; bets were made by members as to whose watch was most accurate. At last some one suggested that it was impossible to decide. “Oh,” said the foreman, "there’s no difficulty about that. There’s a sundial in the garden, and we’ll take a lantern and decide the bets that way.” There were no gold watches in Athens in the age of the literary glory of Greece; but an extremely ancient joke reports the„same suggestion of inspecting a, sun-dial at night to—if we may ,be pardoned a bull of our own—learn the time of day.