Worcester daily spy., 1860-03-31

A SPIRITUAL HAT SToRY.-Maillard's con-
dictionary saloon is celebrated for the excel.
lence OF the entertainment for the medieval
charm of the architecture, which is as religious
in its aspects as an old Normandy shrine, and
for the Partisan Sa0oir tdire OF the compton lady
and on Saturday, in this remarkable place, an
event took place as wonderful as the appear
ance ofthe ghost of that late necromancer stu.
dent. the departed gentleman who paid his
respects four successive nights in the Astor
Library to the learned DR.. Cogswell The
circumstances Of which we speak, which may
be attributed to spiritual agency, is as follows
A man entered that saloon, dOtfed his beaver,
and called for what he needed. Immediately
after man, mot that man, but another man, y
entered with a lovely woman on his arm. She
was charming .ired and beamed with still
more beauty, Us .ier toilet was perfection. The
crinoline she swayed in had that happy mean
of moderation which, if practiced in all things
would make grandtatherS and grandmothers
live forty years longer than their grandchil-
dren desire, and bring down the heaven of the
poets and the prophets to this now abnormal
eartl. The two men in the reigious-lOoking
saloon before mentioned recognized each other
as friends, and the lady and the second gentle
man were invited to sit down by the first and
be entertained, which they did. When the
various comtits were discussed the party rose
to go, but the hat of the first gentleman was
missing. Every place-tables chairs, cup.
boards-was searched but still no hat appear
ed. No person had approached the party,
and how the hat had passed from the actual
into the infinite could not possibly de OWNED
As the odic forces Of our planet are just now
at skies and sevens, the mysterious disappear
ance it was limited might be the work of spirits,
especially as the grave yard Of st. Thomas
Church is close next to the house and at dead
of the night strange noises there have some
times been heard, which believers affirmed
came from family vaults, but intidels SAID
proceeded from tom cats in pursuit of adven-
lures. Whether it was the work of spirits er
OF submundane fingers did not exonerate the
hatless gentleman from procuring another
head covering, so, borrowing Tor moment
that of his friend, lie proceeded to a neighbor-
ing shop and bought himself a new beaver.
He returned to MaiIlard's and found that extra
additional search had produced no result, and
so the party left, the whole transaction being
enveloped in spiritual mystery.
2. S.-Since writing the above, we learn
that the lady, on leaving the saloon and rust
ling her dress as she passed through the door,
suddenly felt something drop behind her, and
looking around saw the hat, crushed, fall to
the ground. 1t appears that the missing
article had been placed upon chair, and that
she had sat gracefully and gently upon it, the
curviHnear swell of her outer garment embrace
ing it, and by dynamical laws it had adhered,
fattened out, under her dress, and during the
search was invisible, and only was revealed
when the rustling motion Of the silk dislodged
it. We regret that we are forced to detail
such an uuspiritual denoument, but as we were
placed behind the ultimate facts, it is our duty
to put them before the public.