Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1878 — INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—A Cold Spring, Putnam County, N. Y., man has just dislodged a horse-fly from his tympanum that had been leader of the orchestra there for two. years. —A woman employed as a stitcher in a shop in North Adams, Mass., died a few days since from the effect of lioison contained in the fancy colored eather on which she worked. —A cargo of rags from Egypt was landed recently at New Haven for a paper company at Windsor Locks, and the New r Haven Union says that three employes of the company have died suddenly of a disease contracted while handling the rags. —A man was scared to death in Berryville, Mo. He was passing a graveyard at midnight, w'hen two men sprang from behind a monument and shouted at him. He ran home and went to bed, but was so nervous that he could not sleep, and before morning he died in convulsions. —An absent-minded man in Monroe, Conn., went to church the other morning with his overcoat, as he supposed, on his arm, but the laughing of the people in church directed his attention to the fact that he had taken his everyday pantaloons, and that the suspenders attached to then} were dangling about his legs. —There was a panic at the Metro politan Theater, Sacramento, March 14. A boy, who had concealed himself in the loft to witness the play surreptitiously by peeping through the ventilator, made a mistake and forced his leg through the plastering,Jarge fragments of which fell over the east and lower side of the parquette. The spectators sprang to their feet and began to work their way into the aisles, and toward the doors; but as the whole ceiling did not give way and the small boy was speedily discovered, the panic was soon over and the play went on.

—The other day, as a lady of this city was passing some small boys, one of them opened his hand to display some fine agates to his companions. They looked at them admiringly, and presently one of the boys turning to the fortunate owner said: “I owe you a licking, but give me one of those agates, and I’ll call it square.” The little fellow looked up in the other’s face, hesitated a moment, and then, selecting a marble, silently passed it over, after which all the lads went on with their play as if nothing* unusual had occurred, the little marble-owner seeming to think the bargain a fair one. —Portland Press. —At the Skaneateles, N. Y., papermill, the other day, Miss Sarah Glass was engaged in sweeping about and under machinery which was revolving at a rapid rate, when, by some means unknown, her clothing became entangled in the belting, and for a moment it seemed as if the poor girl was destined to be killed. Her screams attracted the attention of a sister near by, who rushed to the rescue and succeeded in catching her, and by almost herculean strength held the devoted sister in her arms until the belting had almost torn every particle of clothing off from her. Luckily assistance Came and the machinery was stopped, and Miss Glass escaped with some slight bruises, but was badly scared.

In Viennese ball-rooms girls, when they do not belong to the uppermost ana oldest cotiche sociale, are used to being dropped for partners of better family. A young gentleman belonging to the highest set does not think twice about letting go the arm of a young lady of less blue blood with whom he is going to dance should he see an opportunity of waltzing with, say, a daughter of the Liechensteins or Esterhazys. The forsaken one might feel disappointed at losing her cavalier, but not humiliated. Being deserted for a dancer of no better position than her own would be resented as a slight. Irr Viennese society there is no such thing as social equality. There are sets superposed one above the other. It is permissible for those near the apex to dine at the house of those down and afterward to stare in their faces, without saluting them.— Vienna Letter. A bolt of lightning entered a house in Alabama in search of prey the other day, and finding no one but the baby in, the festive fluid threw him under the bed, melted the beads on his neck, and left him so am&zed that he didn’t whimper for two days. Free Press. I