Later in the afternoon a traveling salesman happened by, stopped to read the bulletins, and, going to the board, added:
4.10 P.M.--Great excitement in Heaven; Deacon Jones has not yet arrived. The worst is feared.
HOW COULD HE KNOW
Jim Murphy had been accused of selling liquor illicitly and the prosecuting attorney was endeavoring to make Pat, a job teamster, admit that he had delivered liquor to the defendant. He stated that he had once delivered freight to Murphy and that part of that freight was a barrel, but when asked what the barrel contained he replied that he did not know.
"Don't know! Wasn't the barrel marked?" asked the attorney.
"Yis, sor."
"Then how dare you tell the court that you don't know what was in it?"
"Because, sor, the barrel was marked 'Jim Murphy' on one end and 'Bourbon Whiskey' on the other. How the divil did I know which was in it?"
A SECRET
A man who had purchased a fine-looking horse soon discovered that the animal was blind, and after several weeks he succeeded in disposing of her, as the defect did not seem to lessen her speed nor detract from her general appearance. The next day the new owner of the horse appeared.