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A PKCFLIAR ADVENTURE.
Tbr .Vlovrinent of n r»kull iU »l Frightened
A tom puny of .Hnrincs.
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A French oflloer has been enlivening
his comrades daring the dull season
with a veritable narrative of an unpleas
ant adventure which he encountered
during his Crimeau campaign thirty
years ago. Biding one night with a few
men along the shore, his attention was
attracted by a skull shining white in the
moonbeams. It was so perfect and the
teeth so brilliant, that he was seined
with the desire to possess it, and jump
ingfrom his horse, he caught it up, and
swinging into his saddle, galloped off
while the bullets of the Bussian sentries
whizzed round his ears. As the small
party returned to the bivouac they
passed a redoubt occupied by French
mserines, who invited them to partake
of a rough and ready supper. Captain
B., the officer who tells the story, drew
his prize from under his long cloak and
placed it on the table. Sailors are
proverbially superstitions, and there was
a very deep murmur of disapproval,
while gloomy looks replaced the former
boisterous mirth. The situation was not
a lively one. A rough hut, lighted by
one feeble candle, whose flickering light
brought the deep shadows, and without
a weird silence, only broken by the
murmuring of the wind. Theliost, totally the
leader of the marines, tried' the
spirits of the party. Baising his glass
he cried: “Come, now, let ns drink to
the living and the dead.” *
Scarcely were the words uttered than
the skull, to whicu all eyes were di¬
rected, made a visible movement and
gnashed its teeth with unmistakable
energy 1 The effect was indescribable.
’The panic-stricken spectators made a
i sudden retreat, and one of the sailors
who was standing by the table in his
hasty movement overthrew and extin¬
guished the solitary light. The dark¬
ness was complete, and through it was
heard the strange sound of the moving
skull rattling against the wood and the
intermittent gnashing: of the teetlv f
' Captain B., who is reckoned among
the bravest of the French officers, de¬
clares he never felt any sensation like
the terrors he then experienced.
“Let us relight the oandle,” said the
officer of marines at last in a stifled
voice; somebody produced a match and
its glimmer showed a group of pallid
and agitated countonances. The sinister
too-too of the teeth still went on. The
death’s head had rolled from the table
to the floor and was marching about
with irregular aotion.
Captain B., rousing himself by a
violent mental effort, advanced and
seized the gruesome visitant and turning
it over discovered two large crabs. The
mystery was explained. The crustaceans
J had taken up their locality in this con¬
venient resting piece while the skull was
the sport of the waves, and the soldier
in his haste had never noticed that his
trophy was tenanted.
“I assure you,” cried Captain B., in
concluding his narrative, “that I was by
no means sorry to see my friends, the
marines, carrying off for the improve¬
ment of their scanty larder these two
erratic crabs, to whom I owe the most
disagreeable five minutes of my life.”
ONLY AN ORANGE BLOSSOM.
A young lady residing in Phenix re
ceived from a friend traveling in Florida
a box filled with orange blossoms and
leaves, which were as fresh as when
gathered. They came by mail, packed
in cotton. A sarcastic gentleman, on
viewing them, said: *‘I thought when
girls had bouquets of orange blossoms
around there was always a man in a fall
dress suit and bridemaids and a clergy¬
man; bat yon don’t seem to have these
needed accessories.” “The person who
sent the blossoms omitted to send a
bridegroom,”, quickly replied the girl;
“but I’ll .write and ask him to send an
alligator; that will have more brains
than some men I’vq seen. "—Providence
Journal
lludd’s Very Smart lloy.
t lu 4 the « * a flush u stock tirnta, vi.An when W W. fl U.
Budd was the idol of the Stock Board
and many who are now fatisfiod with
bear and sandwiches oonld not endure ,
anything but champagne, ho had a boy
in his office who made a little turn iu
speculation and he determined to go on
a little tour of the State, lie pot a no 1 -
day and started. At last he reached Los
Angeles and there he met a couple of
card speculators, who took the ohanoes,
with more or less certainty, at poker.
Two days after this meeting Budd re
ceiled a telegram:
“W. C. Budd, San Francisco: Please
send me $200 to pay my debts and ex
penses back. ”
Mr. Budd did not. answer. The young
gentleman evidently proceeded to tackle
[be poker game again, and next day
Budd received another telegram:
“W. C. Budd, San Francisoo: Please
send me $300 to pay my debts and ex¬
penses back.”
Still Mr. Budd did not reply, and next
day came this:
“Wayman C. Budd, San Francisoo:
Send me $400.”
Budd was getting annoyed. So was
the clerk apparently, for he telegraphed
again:
“Budd. San Francisoo: Send me
$500.”
Mr. Budd took the money and went
and telegraped it to Los Angeles.
“Why did you do it ?” said a friend.
“I was afraid he’d bust me if I didn’t
stop him .”—San Francisco Chronicle .
He Had the True Hind.
Three or four sessions back there was
a member of the Michigan Legislature
who put in sixty or seventy days of the
session without having a word to say,
and it was only at rare intervals that
he was recorded as voting for or against
a bill. His constituents finally sent a
delegation to Lansing to poke him up
a bit, and after hearing what the gentle¬
man had to say the member replied:
“While I didn’t expect no such action
as this, I am fortunately prepared for it.
Come over to my room.”
The delegation followed him to his
room, and the member took down a file
of the daily journal, and exhibited about
twenty marked paragraphs, every one
of them reading:
“And on motion of Mr. Bombee, of
Bombay, the House took a recess.”
“Yes,” said the Chairman of the dele
ga ion, after looking them over, “but this
isn’t so much. There is no particular
display of statesmanship.”
“Statesmanship 1 Well, if knowing
enough to keep my mouth shut until
opening it would do some good isn’t the
tallest kind of statesmanship, not to bay
anything about wisdom, I’m ready to
resign .*'—Detroit Free Preset.
Driven Mad by a Fortune-Teller.
A Denver, Co]., paper eays: Mrs.
William Westall, a laJy weli known in
this city, was adjudged insane. The
cause of her insanity was a peculiar cir¬
cumstance. She is the wife of an engi¬
neer on the South Park Railroad
About ten days ago, during the absence
of her husband with his train, a gypsy
fortune-teller called upon Mrs. Westall,
and af'er repeated entreaties was per
mitted to tell the ’ady’s fortune. Among
i the points told by the fortune-teller was
one to warn Mrs. Westall of the danger
her husband was ; i. She said that un¬
less Mr. Westall was immediately taken
from duty on the load he would be
killed in an accident that afternoon.
The gypsy related so many things which
Mrs. Westall knew to be true, that she
believed the story abenfc her bus baud’s
impending peril. She made an attempt
to reach her husband by telegraph, but
failed, and daring the night and the next
day she become raving mad and has not
recovered. The gypsy cannot bo found
and her motive can only be gnesed at.
Wes tali s friends think that the woman
was paid for her work bv enemies.
Tho Frazer Frnmer Axle <«rrin»«*.
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Bad Taste in the Mouth,
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