Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1873 — The President on Profane Language. [ARTICLE]

The President on Profane Language.

On Friday afternoon before leaving for Long Branch, the President took a stroll along II street, and dropped in to see a friend, who is a well-known citizen of Washington. During his stay the daughter of the gentleman referred to remarked that she had heard a pleasant tiling about him (the President). The President ihquired to what she referred. “I have been told by an officer who served with yon in the army,” said she, “that he had been with you under many trying circum-. stances, and that in no single instance, no matter what the provocation, had he cv<r known you to make use of profane lanSe. ' I was delighted to hear this, est dly in view of the fact that profanity is said to be the rule and not the exception among army officers. Will you excuse me, Mr. President, if I inquire if what I heard is true?’’ “It is, I believe,” modestly replied the President. "I have always regarded profane language as unnecessary, to say the least, and as I am a man of few words, I have never been able to understand the necessity for useless expressions of the character referred to.”— Wiuhington Star. c —A veteran observer asks: “What becomes of all the men who, in youth, exhibit high talent and give promise of a brilliant future?” Although the question is not put to us individually, yet we take the liberty of replying that they may be seen enveloped in white aprons, and squinting from behind- diamond clusters as bar-tenders. Their voices, that once gave' evidence ofCiceronic talent, are now heard retailing vitreous pastry—or “glass puddin." They command canal-boats and streetcars, and occasionally, one, with more ambition than "the others, becomes a manufacturer of root beer and other pleasant and refreshing summer drinks.— St. Louit Democrat. —The latest Ritualistic innovation in England’relates to funerals. At the obsequiesof the daughter of a churchwarden at St Matthias, Stoke Newington, the vicar, “censed the coffin, which had two lights at the head and two at the foot.” :.