"Heaven preserve your honor's eyesight!"
The gentleman was at last annoyed at her importunity, and said:
"Why do you wish my eyesight to be preserved? Nothing ails my eyesight, nor is likely to."
"No, your honor," said the Irishwoman, "but it will be a sad thing if it does, for you will have nothing to rest your spectacles upon."
Hard Hit by Napoleon.
When Napoleon was only an officer of artillery a Prussian officer said in his presence, with much pride:
"My countrymen fight only for glory, but Frenchmen for money."
"You are right," replied Napoleon; "each of them fights for what he is most in want of."
A Triumph for Billingsgate.
The Rev. Matthew Wilkes, a celebrated London preacher, was caught in a shower in the famous Billingsgate Market, where the profanity of the women who sell fish there is proverbial. As he stopped under a shed among them, he felt called upon to at least give his testimony against their wickedness.