Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-01-24

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From the Philadelphia Saturday Post.l
On New Years night Chubb came home very
late, and when he went up stars his wife and
children were in bed asleep. He undressed as
softly he could and then, as he felt thirsty he
thought he woule get drink OF water. Fortu-
nately he saw gobletf9l standing on the wash
stand, placed there for him, evidently, BY Mrs
Chubb. He seized it and drank the liquid in
two or three huge guips, but just as he was
draining the goblet he gagged, dropped the glass
while he elected something from his mouth. He
was certain that live animal of some kind had
been in the water, and that he had nearly swal-
lowed It, This theory was confirmed when he
saw the object which he spit out 90 bounding
over the floor. He pursued it, kicking a couple
OF chairs over while doing so, and at last he put
ms loot on 1t and held it. OF course Mrs. Chubb
was VIDE awake by this time and scared nearly
10 death, and the baby was screaming at the
top OF its lungs. Mrs. Chubb got out OF bed and
turned up the gas, and said
"Mr. Chubb, what in the name of common
sense is the matter?'
"It's mouse, Louisal'' shouted Chubb in an
excited manner. Its mouse in the goblet.
nearly swallered it, but spit ii out, and now
I've got my foot on it. Get stick and kill it
Mrs. Chubb was at first disposed to jump on a
chair and scream; for, like all women, she
feared mouse much more than she did tiger.
But at Chubb's solicitation she got the broom
and prepared TO demolish the mouse when
Cbubb lifted his foot. He drew back and she
aimed q fearful blow at the object, and missed
it. Then, as it did not move she took good
look at it. Then she threw down the broom,
said:
Come to bed, you old fool; that's not
mouse"
what d'you mean"
why, you simplcton, that's the baby's In
dia-rubber bottle-top that put in the goblet 10
keep 1t sweet! You ought TO be asham d of
yourseH carrying on in this manner at one
O'Clock in the morning"
Then Chubb turned in. After this he will
drink at the pump.
BUsBY's FLAT-IRON WEDDING.
Busby, OF Trenton, celebrated his ''irOn we'd
ding" one day last week, and he invited about
one hundred and twenty guests to the Wedding
Of course each person felt compelled to bring a
present of some kind and each one did. When
MI and Mrs. Smith came, they handed Busby
a pair OF fat-irOns. When MT and Mrs. Jones
arrived they also had a pair OF fiat-irons. All
hands laughed at the coincidence, And there
was even greater meTriment when the Browns
arrived with two pairs of fat-irons. But when
MIR. and Mrs. Robinson came in with an
other pair of fat-irons the laughter be-
came perfectly convulsive. There was,
however, something less amusing about
when the Th0mpsons arrived with four
hatlrons wrapped in brown paper. And Bus
py,s face actually looked grave when the three
johnson girls we're ushered into the parlor car
ryng fatiron apiece. Each one of the sue
ceeding sixty guests brought fatirons, and
there was 10 break in the continuity until old
Mr.. Curry arrived from Philadelphia, with
a cast-iron cow-bell. Now Busby has no
earthly use for cOw-bell, and at any other
tlne he would have treated such q present
with scorn. But now he was actually grateful
to MIR. Curry, and he was about to embrace
him, when the Walsinghams came in with
the new kind of double-pointed fiatrons with
wooden handles. And all the rest OF the
guests brought the same articles excepting Mr..
Rugby, and he had with him a patent stand
for holding fatirons. Busby got madden and
madden every minute, and by the time the
company had all arrived, he was nearly insane
with rage; and he went up to bed leaving his
wife to entertain the guests. In the morning
they counted up the spoils, and found that they
had two hundred and thirteen flst-irons, one
stand, and cow-beil. And now the Busbys
have cut the Smiths, and Brow MS, and Johr-
they are convinced that there was a precon-
certed design TO play trick upon them. The
fact, however, is, that the hardware store in
me pace mad an overstock OF fiat irons, and
sold them at an absurdly low figure, and Bus
DYE guests unanimously went for the cheapest
thing they could find, as people always do on
such occasions. Busby thinks he will not cele-
brate his E.silyer wedding