Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1878 — A Mean Slander. [ARTICLE]

A Mean Slander.

One of the meanest slanders afloat is that which charges that one of our clergymen swore an oath the other .night. The circumstances are simply these: He went into the house, and attempted to make his way in the dark through the sitting-room to the pantry to deposit a bunch of rhubarb presented him by a parishioner, forgetting that housecleaning had commenced. The wretched girl had left a pail of soft-soap near the door, over which he accidentally stumbled. Making an herculean effort to sate himself he grabbed for something with both hands, and as he alighted firmly on his stomach pulled down on top of him a table full of crockery 1 . Rising promptly to his feet he made apitch tor the match-safe, but, happening to plant his foot in a puddle of the soft-soap, he promptly sat down in a tub of preserved fruits. His poor tired wife, who had retired early; was roused from her slumbers, and, thinking that burglars were abroad, shrieked for help, to which the hired girl responded, rushing into the room and tumbling headlong over the man in the washtub. These are the simple facts in th* case, and that is all there is of it. Our good friend did not say a word hat could be construed into profanity. He simply sat firmly and quietly among the preserves until a light was struck, and then mildly inquired How much longer, dear, does house-cleaning last ?' r —-Ithaca (N. Y.) Journal. From a report recently printed in the London Times, it appears that the postal savings banks, under the direction of the British Government, produced a pyofit last year of £145,849, or abont $728,000, over thq^intcrest allowed and the expenses ofearri ing on the office.