The weekly Shasta courier. [volume] (Shasta, Calif.) 1872-190?, 1873-09-06
ANECDOTES.

travelling SOlno years siuCo III lue upper part
of this State called at tavern and re-
ouested entertainment for the night. The
landlord informed him that it was out of
his power to accommodate him, as his house
was already full. He persisted in stopping,
as he, as well as his horse. were almost ex-
hausted with travelling. After much solicit
tation, the landlord consented to his stop
ping. provided he would sleep in a certain
room that had not been occupied for long
time, in consequence OLA belief that it was
haunted by the ghost Of barber, whe was
reported to have been murdered in that
room some years before.
"Very WE'LL says the man; I'm not
afraid of ghosts"
After having refreshed himself, he inquired
of the landlord how and in what manner
the room in which he was to lodge was
haunted The landlord replied, that shortly
after they retired to rest, an unknown voice
was heard, in a trembling and protracted
accent, saying:
Don't you want to be shaved ?"
"Well," replied the man, i" if he comes,
he may shave me-" -f
apartment, in going to which he was con-
Quoted through large room where were
seated great number of persons at
gaming table. Feeling a curiosity which
almost every one possesses after having
heard ghost stories, he carefully searched
every corner of his room, but could discover
nothing but the usual furniture of the apart
ment. He then lay down, but did not close
his eyes Immediately, and in a few minutes
he imagined he heard voice saying:
"Do you want to be sh-a-ved?"
He arose from his bed and searched every
part of the room, but could discover nothing.
He again went to bed but no sooner had he
begun to compose himself to sleep than the
question was again repeated. He again rose
and went to the window, the sound appear
ing to proceed from that quarter, and stood
awhile silent. After few moments of
anxious suspense, he again heard the sound
distinctly, and, convinced that it was from
without. he opened tho window, when the
question was repeated full in his ear, which
startled him not little. Upon minute
examination, however, he observed that the
limb of large oak tree, which stood under
his window, projected so near the house that
every breath of wind, to lively Imagination,
made noise resembling the interrogation
10 you Want TO De Shaved (
Having satisfied himself that his ghost
was nothing more or less than the limb of a
tree coming in contact with the house, he
again went to bed and attempted to get
asleep; but he was now interrupted by the
peals of laughter, and an occasional volley
of oaths and curses from the room where the
gamblers were assembled. Thinking that
he could turn the late discovery to his own
advantage, he took sheet from the bed and
wrapped it round him, and taking the wash
basin in his hand, and throwing a towel
over his arm, proceeded to the room of the
gamblers, and suddenly opening the door,
walked in, exclaiming, in tremulous voice:
"Do you want to be sh-a-ved?"
Terrified at the sudden appearance of the
ghost, the gamblers were thrown into great
confusion in attempting to escape it, some
jumping through the windows, and others
tumbling head over heels down stairs. Our
ghost, taking advantage of clear room, de-
liberately swept large amount of money
from the table into the basin, and retired I'M
seen to his own room.
The next morning he found the house in
the utmost confusion. He was Immediately
asked if he rested well, to which he replied
in the affirmative.
"Well, no wonder" said the landlord,
i" for the ghost, instead of going to his own
room, made a mistake and came to ours,
frightened us out of the room, and took
away every dollar of our money"
The guest, without being the least sus-
pected, quietly ate his own breakfast, and
departed many hundred dollars richer by
the adventure.
A stranger who is visiting Danbury pro-
posed to one of our citizens, Saturday, that
he would get barouche if the citizen would
furnish ladies', and take drive out of town
in the evening. The citizen agreed, and
went home to get ready. His wife noticed
the particular toilet, and asked him what
was up. He didn't appear to know that
anything was up, and she said no more.
Shortly after he left, she went to his place
of BUSINESS, and learned that he was to take
drive The carriage was out in front of
the hotel the party was to start from, and
near it the curious woman found her hus-
bands partner in the scheme. She asked
him if the carriage was going to R, and
he believing her to be one OF the invited,
replied in the affirmative and helped her in.
She was no more than comfortably settled
in the back seat, when her husband came
down the hotel steps with the couple he had
engaged, and reaching the carriage proceed
ed to bow them in, when his smile was pet
rifed into ghastliness by the vision of his
affectionate wife, pleasantly located on the
back seat and going through brief re-
hearsal with her fingers. One instant he
gazed frantically at her, and then giving ex-
preston to his pent-up feelings with the
simple exclamation, By hokey!" he turned
and Aed.-Dna6ury Ne,cs.
THE MEANEsT YET.-Some gentlemen
were talking about meanness, when one said
he knew man on Lexington Avenue who
was the meanest man in New York.
| allow mean is that ?" asked friend.
"Why, he is so mean that he keeps five
cent piece, with a string tied to 1t, to give
to beggars, and when their backs are turned
he Jerks it out of their pockets"
Why. this man is so mean" continued
the gentleman, :" that he gave his children
ten cents a piece the night before the
Fourth of July, but during the night, when
they were asleep, he went up stairs, took
the money out Of their clothes, and then
whipped them in the morning for losing it ~
g Does he do anything else ?"
Yes; the other day dined with him,
and noticed the poor little. servant girl
whistled gaily all the way up the stairs with
the dessert, and when asked my generous
friend what made her whistle SO happily he
said, Why, | keep her whistiing so she
can't eat the raisins out of the cake"
Ann Jones. of Providence, r. l., fell to
the floor dead on seeing an undertakers
hearse drive up for the burial Of her child.