_Strange Reasons for keeping a Public-house._--A clergyman in the
south-west of England, calling lately on one of his parishioners, who
kept a public-house, remarked to her how sorry he was, when passing
along the road, to hear such noises proceeding from her house. "I
wonder," said he, "that any woman can keep a public-house, especially
one where there is so much drunkenness and depravity as in yours." "Oh,
Sir," she replied, "that is the very reason why I like to keep such a
house, because I see every day so much of the _worst part of human
nature_."