People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1893 — TO PLEASE HIS WIFE. [ARTICLE]

TO PLEASE HIS WIFE.

A Bishop Used a Lightning Conductor as a Pillow. A Paris Figaro reporter tells the story of an English bishop who, returning from a tour of the states, occupied a large double cabin with his wife, who was somewhat querulous and exacting. One night during a storm that lady complained of close air, and her spouse arose and opened a porthole, whereupon a big wooden ball bobbed in and kept on bobbing. The bishop knotted up its string and hung it on the wall of the cabin; it bumped as the vessel rocked and annoyed the lady further. So the patient bishop let out the loops and put the ball under his pillow, after which peace and slumber reigned. The next day at dinner he recounted his adventures of the night, and, bridled with intense delight at the roars of laughter which greeted the story, the captain recovered sufficiently to gasp: “Why, man—ah—that is, my lord, that ball you slept on hangs at the end of the ship’s lightning conductor!”