Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-02-15
Freaks of Human Nature.
Now York Trihnne.l

We appear to be living in some
what remarkable epoch. The weather
is cutting all sorts of unusual capers,
and human nature showsa disposition
to enter into competitor with 1t. The
newspapers are filled daily with
curious social developments. A pas
sionate coachman In Brooklyn en-
deavored to excite admiration and
love in the unresponsive bosom of his
inamorat by committing a tremen-
dous and complicated assault upon
himself He shot himself carefully
twice; stabbed himself once with great.
caution, recklessly sacrificing n shirt
in the desperate operation; then
allowed himself to become uncon-
scious, and finally to recover himself
and relate Il marvellous account of his
heroic struggles with armed burglars.
An unromantic policeman smelling
about the scene of the encounter
speedily revealed its bogus character
The coachman was arrested for grand
larceny and locked up like common
criminal. Here was a fine magma.
tive nature sacrificed TO the iron-bound
laws of an unpoctic age. In the old
days that sort of thing might have
been called chivalry, and the coach
man instead of languishing in n dun
geon would have reposed ecstatically
in the arms of his mistress whose af-
fections his valor had won. The
Brooklyn knight is merely century
or two behind the times.
simultaneously with this incident
comes most remarkable account of a
marital quarrel in Hartford. A young
and wealthy couple, moving In fash
ionable societyn--people who
are the subjects of particu-
larly bad scandal are always set
down as moving in fashionable
society" --have set the gossips of the
town nearly wild by some very unu-
sual performances The present as
pect of the trouble represents the hus-
band as fleeing to his fathers house in
another state, after cutting off the sup
ply of water and gas from his own
house, and removing the servants,
horses and carriages. The wife, left
in isolated possession, is said to bc
armed against the approach of her
husbands family and to amuse her
self by cutting up valuable paintings
with a carving knife. 1t Is added that
she is very attractive woman" Sc
we should judge. Frem Pittsbure
comes cheerful story of an enraged
church member who is making
the fences of the city bloom
with handbills charging his pas
| tor with some very black crimes. The
minister says the charges are false
that the author of them Is at the heaC
of a Clique" which is trying to iniur,
him, and that the authors wife ant
others of the :" clique" have been il
the habit of writing their pastor sour
rilous letters making such unpleasant
charges MS that his daughter was lille
! ultimate. That must be nice sort o
n church for meek and lowly chris
tan to belong to.
These are only the more striking
| incidents of a days record. Their,
have been many similar TO them re
Gently. An affectionate young crea
turc in this city fired five shots at hei
lover the other day, simply because
she had felt a pistol in his pocket
aud was afraid If she didn't
shoot him he would shoot her. EARLY
in the week the peace in the mind o
divers bachelor was shaken by II YER
diet which n washer-woman got in ,
suit against a former bachelor 60
nearly thousand dollars of alleged
/
declared it rs his opinion that the yer
dict should be solemn warning t.
every bachelor that the same thins
might happen to him in case he wa
not in the habit of taking receipt
from his washer-woman. The bach
elors look upon the verdict with min
i gled emotions. They don't know
whether the warning to be deduced j
for them to get married or to stol
having washing done. They point {
the fact that the victim of the sui
had no trouble till he got married, am
say that not man of them can &c
married now without danger OF prose
cution, 1t will beseen therefore, tina
this verdict is likely TO have far reach
ing social influences.
Thus while some are seeking mar
riage with most extraordinary zen
and ingenuity, Others are RUNNING
away from it, and some of those VII
are married are chatting under its bond
1t is queer world and always ha
been: just now its queemess seems t
be triile aggravated.