Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-07
Il Comic Incident Not IN the Bills.
New York World.

A well-known gentleman of this city,
who attended the performance of Mr..
Wyndham's play of 'Brighton'' on Friday
comfortable scat in the middle of the par
quot, was much electrified at an interest
ing moment in the entertainment by feel
ing something suddenly fall, apparently
from the ceiling of the theater, into his
lap.
Hastily glancing downward, what was
his horror to see a complete set of false
teet sharply defined on his faultless even
ing trousers! In his establishment he
Il lpped his hands to his mouth to assure
himself that his own apparatus of mastica-
| ton was in its proper place and in good
condition. Reassured on this point, he
turned to his neighbor, who was cycling
him with mingled suspicion and disgust,
and politely queried: ''May I ask if thsse
teeth are your property, STRIP
"Certainly not" said the other.
''Then I should like to know where the
ID they came from?"
'You had better ask the manager. Pos
sibly it is part of the play"
The curtain soon after falling, the re-
cipient of this unusual favor, wrapping the
teeth in play bill, went out to the box
Office and invited the treasurer to take
charge of them.
'Well," said the treasurer, 81 have seen
almost everything in the world left in a
theater in my time, but this is the first set
of teeth that was ever brought to the
Office. Where do you suppose they came
from?"
"That is precisely what should like to
In T hn Of
house and they must have fallen down
from the ceiling. Is there dentist up
there?''
While the treasurer and the gentleman
were comforting together, the anxious face
of an American lady of African descent
was thrust over the shoulder of one of
them.
SWELL, honey" she exclaimed, elf you
haven't got my teeth! 1 demo just csme to
get them"
The box-ofIicer turned and looked stern
| ly at the woman.
"Open your mouth" ne said.
She hastily obeyed, and disclosed COM
plete and magnificent set of glittering
grinders.
"What the deuce do you mean by claim
ing these teeth?" said the box-keeper.
How many set do you wsar?'
Thus driven into a corner, the American
lady of African descent, after little ,hesi-
tation, admitted that the teeth did not be-
long to her, but to her friend Beliada Jane,
| who was waiting in the lobby. Belinda
| Jane being summoned, appeared with an
| abject countenance, and her mouth was
found on investigation to present a dsplor-
| able hiatus. The box-keeper fitted the
| teeth in and found that they undoubtedly
belonged to Belinda Jane, who was then
called upon to explain what she meant by
throwing the teeth in the lap of q
perfect stranger and how she had
| succeeded in doing it. It turned
| out that Belinda Jane and her
friend, actuated by mingled motives of
economy and of interest in the drama,
had clambered up into the cock loft of the
| theater, and there extending themselves at
full length on the floor, had been tran
gully enjoying the play through great
| ventilation hole in the ceiling; when par
ticularly comical incident on the stage
| threw Belinda Jane into CONFUSION of
| laughter, in the course Of which the delin-
| quent teeth few out of her mouth and fell
through the hole into the parquet.
| The moral of the story will need to be
settled between the dentists and the archi-
| tects.