People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1894 — Strange Mistaken Made by Various Per [ARTICLE]

Strange Mistaken Made by Various Per

sons of No Particular Nationality. Pat isn’t the only creature in the world who makes those absurd remarks we call bulls. Frenchmen, Englishmen and all others make them with equal frequency. Even Americans make them, as witness the statement made by a writer in one of New York’s best evening newspapers, apropos of the death of a great American statesman, some months ago. “Mr. Soandso,” wrote this strange individual, “spoke no last words.” A French bull, all the worse for having been written and not spoken hastily, was made by a certain Parisian, Callon by name: “My dear , 1 left my knife at your lodgings yesterday. Pray send ic to me if you find it Yours. “Callon. “P. S.—Never mind sending me the knife; 1 have tound it” There is also in existence a note written by Callon to his wife, which he sent home with a basket of provisions, the postscript to which read: “You will find this letter at the bottom of the basket If you should fail to do so, let me know as soon as possible.” A Scotch lady once made an amusing remark which comes very aptly under the head of bulls. It appears that she was conversing with a friend upon the smoking habit which she declared 1* be rile and destructive of health. “I don’t know about that,” said hw “There is my dear old father; he smokes, and has smoked every day for years, and he is seventy years old.” “That may be,” she retorted. “But if he had never smoked he might have been eighty.”—Harper’s Young People.