A mountaineer of one of the back counties of North Carolina was arraigned with several others for illicit distilling. “Defendant,” said the court, “what is your name?”
“Joshua,” was the reply.
“Are you the man who made the sun stand still?”
Quick as a flash came the answer, “No, sir; I am the man who made the moonshine.”
“They thought more of the Legion of Honor in the time of the first Napoleon than they do now,” said a well-known Frenchman. “The emperor one day met an old one-armed veteran.
“‘How did you lose your arm?’ he asked.
“‘Sire, at Austerlitz.’
“‘And were you not decorated?’
“‘No, sire.’