The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-01-07
Curious BiuRderS.

The numerous instances of mistaken
identity on record are constantly recQv-
ing new additions. There is an amusing
account of French lady who was very
jealous of her husband, and determined
to watch his movements. On one occa-
sion, when he told her he was going to
Versailles, she followed him, keeping
him in sight till she missed him III
passage leading to the railway station.
Looking about her fer few minutes,
she saw man coming out OF a glove
shop with a rather over-dressed lady.
Making sure from the distance that tins
man was her husband, she came sud
denly up and, without a word of warn
ing, gave him three or four boxes on the
ear. The instant the gentleman turned
round she discovered her mistake, and,
at the same time, caught sight of Ler
husband, who had merely called at a
tobacconists, and was crossing the
street There was nothing for it but to
faint in the arms of the gentleman whose
ears she had boxed, while the other lady
moved away to avoid a scene. The stran
ger, astonished to find an unknown lady
IN his arms, was further startled by
gentleman Selling him by the collar and
demanding what he meant by embracing
that lady.
"Why, she boxed my ears, and then
tainted" exclaimed the aggrieved gen.
tleman.
"She is my wife T. shouted the angry
husband, land would never have struck
you without a cause.
And worse than angry words would
probably have happened had not the
cause of the whole misunderstanding
recovered sufficiently to explain how it
all happened.
An amusing blunder was once made
by dyer, who was given by farmer
four flannel shirts to be dyed fast gray
color, instead of which he dyed them
red. On wearing the garments, tho
| color came out of them SO that, rs the
farmer expressed it, "he looked like
red Indian = and, rs it cost him several
shillings III baths TO turn himself into
white man again, he sued the dyer, and
! obtained damages.
An embarrassing incident once hap
pened TO an Englishman i'll Rome. En-
tering one of the churches In that city,
as a service was going on, he sat quietly
down, placing his hat on the ground
| beside him. Some little time passed,
and, as there seemed no immediate pros
pect OF the ceremony coming To an end,
he reached for his hat, III order to leave,
but was stopped by an unseen hand,
which grasped him from behind. Think
ing some custodian of the church wished
him to remain till the end of the service,
he again waited; but, his patience be-
coming exhausted, he again reached for
his hat, and again he was prevented
from going Ill the same manner Con-
WINGED that the service was some really
important one, the EnglishInan once
more delayed his departure; but at the
expiration of quarter of an hour he
determined to go in spite of etiquette,
SO he repeated the same maneuver III
the direction of his head covering. A
third time the same hand detained him,
but as he determinedly resisted its grasp
"A voice behind him exclaimed i'll En-
glish:
81 beg your pardon, but that is my
hat you are taking"
Such was the fact; he had been de-
tanned all this while because each time
he had reached in mistake for the hat
of another stranger placed IL close
proximity to his own.