Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1855-09-29
Mysterious.

There are certain mysteries. eDtirell
common and forever inexplicable, as VIII,
black satin waistcoats must not be worn u
the morning-and by certain people, new
er; why a coat or bonnet, which is to-da,
pleasing. and in sense, necessary to th,
eye, is next year an object Of drrisiv,
laughter, why human, being must, unde
no circumstances, convey food 20 his moutl
with a knife why the legs of plan,
should be mentioned only in cases Of ex
IRENE necessity why some peoples cloth.
never fit them; why other people AWAY.
say the wrong thing "a! the wrong time
why Mrs. Bat says to Mrs. Cat that She
vas very sorry not to find her in on Mon
day morning because she knew tibet Mrs
Cat was ont; why old higgins smokes ten
cigars dav, and warns higgins junior
"ho smokes twelve IN .private--that he
must never acquire the pernicious habit oil
using tobacco why people buy stock that
must fall, ana why people go sIeighing,
aud declare, with blue noses, and feet like
specimens Of mer de glaee, that it was de-
! lishtfui-'so fresh and exhieratIng;' why
people who don't like music go to the OPP
era; but chiefly, Why any body ever un-
dertakes to manage an opera. That is, at
ter all, the great mystery OF society. Under
certain circumstances, it IS possible to fancy
a man making small bundle Of money and
thro wing it into the river unobserveh.-
But why should he cast his coin into the
tea. and be blaekguarded by every body
into the bargain---that is even more in ex-
pllcable than Why the turnip crop depends
upon boiled legs Of mutton. ~
The following story was related by the
late Robert Seullley to DIR Spsague OF Al.
baay
a person connected with the cathedral
at Bristol, by the names Of Lore, and who
was just on the eve oil being married.
dreamed that in looking over the register
! Of deufs in the cathedral he saw his own
name at the bottom Of the list. He was
somewhat alarmed by it. and his mother
still more. 4 few nights after. as he was
returning from visit TO the Young lady to
whom he was engaged, pale aud almost
breattrss: aud upon being asked VIVA. YVES
the matter, replied that OH his way home
le had witnessed very strange spectacle
several men beating collin, covered with
red morocco. and brass nails and what
chiefly alarmed him was, that they had
brought il into that house
"Ihey Immediately sent out to inquire
il any person living in that street had just
died, and they found that none had. They
they then sen; 10 every undertaken TO in
iquire whether any Of then had furnished a
coilihthat n,gh,,a 4 it was asceriained that
none had been furnished. Shortly after,
the poor fellow became suddenly i'll, aud
alter few days died. They had grea,adif-
ficul., for some time in finding a place in
the cathedral where he could te buried but
they found, at length, and it proved TO be
in the very corner where, in his dream he
had seen his monument. And when the
coffin came, it TUNED out that the under
taker. an eccentric man, without having ie-
ceiyed any such directions, and merely
from wish to testify his respect for the
family, had had the coffin covered with
red morocco and brass nails. .Southey as
sured me that he had not the least doubt OF
these facts. and that the monument OF the
young man was still to be seen in he ca.
thedral understood him TO say that the
event had occurred about forty years be-
fore,