Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1881 — Cnrions Blunders. [ARTICLE]

Cnrions Blunders.

The numerous instances of mistaken identity on record are constantly receiving new additions. There is an amusing account of a French lady who was very jealous of her husband, and determined to watch his movements. On one occasion, when he told her he was going to Versailles, she followed him, keeping him in sight till she missed him in a passage leading* to the railway station. Looking about her for a few minutes, she saw a man coming out of a gloveshop with a rather over-dressed lady. Making sure from the distance that this man was her husband, she came suddenly up and, without a word of warning, gave him three or four boxes on the ear. The instant the gentleman turned round she discovered her mistake, and, at the same time, caught sight of her husband, who had merely called at a tobacconist’s, and was crossing the street. There was nothing for it but to faint in the arms of the gentleman whose ears she had boxed, while the other lady moved away to avoid a scene. The stranger, astonished to find an unknown lady m his anus, was further startled by a gentleman seizing him by the collar and demanding what he meant by embracing that lady. ‘'Why, she boxed my ears, and then fainted,” exclaimed the aggrieved gentleman. “She is my wife I” shouted the angry husband, “and would never have struck you without a cause.” And worse than angry words wqjild probably have happened had not the cause of the whole misunderstanding recovered sufficiently to explain how it all happened. An amusing blunder was once made by a dyer, who was given by a farmer four flannel shirts to be dyed a fast gray color, instead of which he dyed them red. On wearing the garments, the color came out of them so that, as the farmer expressed it, “he looked like a red Indianand, as it cost him several shillings in baths to turn himself into a whitcmmn again, he sued the dyer, and obtained damages. Au embarrassing incident once happened to an Englishman in Rome. Entering one of the churches in that city, as a service was going on, he sat quietly down, placing his hat on the ground beside him. Some little time passed, and, as there seemed no immediate prospect of the ceremony coming to an end, he reached for his hat, in order to leave, but was stopped by an unseen hand, which grasped him from behind. Thinking some custodian of the church wished him to remain till the end of the service, he again waited; but, his patience becoming exhausted, he again reached for his hat, and again he was prevented from going in the same manner. Convinced that the service was some really important one, the Englishman once more delayed his departure; but at the expiration of a quarter of an hour he determined to go in spite of etiquette, so he repeated the same maneuver in the direction of his head covering. A third time the same hand detained him, but as he determinedly resisted its grasp a voice behind him exclaimed in Ei@ glish: “I beg your pardon, but that is my hat you are taking.” Such was the fact; he had been detained all this while because each time he had reached in mistake for the hat of another stranger placed in close proximity to his own. The Atlantic contains the following: “We can not think annihilation. When I think myself as nothing, I prove that J am something. If I say I am, lam really i«-ing. This is the power, by which we thing things. J who am, or is-ing I, think this, thAt, other somewhat. The thing must be what I think or thing it. In other words, I think my thing and that thing things.” The most we are afraid of is that there is some infernal trick about it.— Peck's ■Shin. _ Fob a pamphlet on Electric Treatment of chronic diseases with Electricity, which will be sent free, address the Mclntosh Electric Belt and Battery Co., 192 & 194 Jackson St., Chicago, 111. RtaENThal Bnos., Chicago, make the diamond bootirand shoes, the best made. Try them.