Ticket Please<\/b><\/p>\n
groups of students\u2014math and engineering majors\u2014boarded a train that was headed for a technical convention. Each of the math majors had a ticket, but their engineering counterparts had only one ticket between them.<\/p>\n
The math majors were snickering at this when an engineering student shouted, \u201cHere comes the conductor!\u201d With that, all the engineering majors squeezed into a bathroom. The puzzled math students watched as the conductor collected their tickets, then knocked on the bathroom door and said, \u201cTicket please.\u201d The conductor took the single ticket that was passed under the door and left.<\/p>\n
Not to be outdone, the math students boarded the returning train with only one ticket, while the math majors piled into another. Then before the conductor entered the car, one of the engineers came out of his bathroom and knocked on the math majors\u2019 door.<\/p>\n
\u201cTicket please,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Contributed by Wes Simonds to Reader\u2019s Digest<\/p>\n
Mississippi Spurning<\/b><\/p>\n
A good bit of one-upmanship has transpired over the years between Trent Lott and Thad Cochran, the two Mississippians in this week\u2019s showdown for Bob Dole\u2019s job as Senate majority leader. But as Jackson columnist Bill Minor notes, their rivalry pales when compared with a feud waged six decades ago by two other Mississippi senators.<\/p>\n
The nation knew the state\u2019s junior senator, Theodore Bilbo, as a race-baiting demagogue, the author of a bill to ship blacks to Africa. But many Mississippians revered him as a champion of the poor and foe of the mighty. Others in the state despised him as a bribe-taking crook. One rival, preparing to discuss Bilbo in a stump speech, shed his coat and said, \u201cExcuse me. I\u2019m going to skin a skunk. Ladies had better leave.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mississippi\u2019s senior senator, Pat Harrison, had helped engineer Franklin Roosevelt\u2019s early New Deal. When the Senate majority leader\u2019s job opened up in 1937, Harrison went after it. Nose counts put him in a tie with Kentucky\u2019s Alben Barkley. Harrison\u2019s campaign manager asked Bilbo to consider voting for his fellow Mississippian. Bilbo said he would if Harrison asked him to. That was a big if. Harrison loathed Bilbo and hadn\u2019t spoken to him in years. The response was swift: \u201cTell the son of a bitch I wouldn\u2019t speak to him even if it meant the presidency of the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n
When the ballots were in, Pat Harrison was a one-vote loser. But his reputation as the senator who wouldn\u2019t speak to his home-state colleague remained intact.<\/p>\n
Lewis Lord, quoted in USNews & World Report, June 17, 1996, p. 12.<\/p>\n
Calendar<\/b><\/p>\n
July, the seventh month, was named after Julius Caesar. Not to be outdone, the Emperor Augustus called the following month August after himself. Since that month had only thirty days at the time, he borrowed a day from February and added it to August, making sure that his month would not be inferior to Julius Caesar\u2019s.<\/p>\n
Bits & Pieces, August 20, 1992, p. 20<\/p>\n
The Overflow of Their Cups Fills My Little Bucket<\/b><\/p>\n
When F. B. Meyer was pastoring Christ Church in London, Charles Spurgeon was preaching at Metropolitan Tabernacle, and G. Campbell Morgan was at Westminster Chapel. Meyer said,<\/p>\n
\u201cI find in my own ministry that supposing I pray for my own little flock, \u2018God bless me, God fill my pews, God send me a revival,\u201d I miss the blessing; but as I pray for my big brother, Mr. Spurgeon, on the right-hand side of my church, \u2018God bless him\u2019; or my other big brother, Campbell Morgan, on the other side of my church, \u2018God bless him\u2019; I am sure to get a blessing without praying for it, for the overflow of their cups fills my little bucket.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Wycliffe Handbook of Preaching & Preachers, W. Wiersbe, p. 193<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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