Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-01-10
WONDERFUL CALMNESS.

How One Grivet Escaped the Guiilotine
During the Reign of Terror.
A tradesman of Lyons. in France, OF
the name of Grivet. man of mild and
simple manners, was sentenced during
lh. French revolution, with number
of others, to die next morning. Those
who we're already in the cave pressed
around the newcomer to sympathize
with and to fortify him. But Grivet had
no need of consolation; he was as calm
as if he had been in his own house.
Come and sup with u.s. said they;
this is the last inn in the journey OF
life; tomorrow we shall arrive at our
long home" Grivet accepted the invi-
tation and supped heartily. DESTROYS
to sleep as well, he retired to the re-
hottest corner of the grave, and, bury
ing himself in his straw, seemed not to
bestow thought on his approaching
f:Se.
Vhe morning arrived. The other pris-
oners were tied together and led away
without Grivet's perceiving any thing
or being perceived. Fast asleep, en-
yeloped in his straw, he neither saw nor
was seen. The door of the cave was
| locked. and when he awoke, awhile after,
| he was in the utmost astonishment to
ind himself in perfect solitude. The
| day passed and no new prisoners were
| brought into the cave. The judges did
not sit for two days. Grivet remained
| all this time in his solitude, subsisting
on some scattered provisions which he
| found in the cave, and sleeping every
| night with the same tranquility as on the
first. On the evening of the fourth day
the turnkey brought in new prisoner
| and became as one thunderstruck on
-eelng a man, or. as he almost believed,
spirit, in the cave.
He called the sentinel who instantly
| appeared. "Who are you?' said he tC
Grivet, land how came you here?'
Grivet answered that he had been there
four days. Doubtless" he added
when my companions in misfortune were
led away to death slept and heard moth
lug, and no one thought to awaken me
1t was my misfortune, since all would
now have been past, whereas have now
lived with the prospect of death always
before me; but the misfortune now vii
undoubtedly be repaired and | shall die.
Griyet was summoned before the trib
unal He was Intercepted anew. |
was a moment of leniency with thu
Judges. and he was set at liberty Lon
Ion Spectator.
The New York Cotton Exchange
have raised their fines for disorderly
/ conduct from s. to 500. Under the OLE
, rules a member could punch anothe
\ members head and get off sometime
, | for fifty cents, but now such action cal
q only be INDUCED in by the wealthies
members of the exchange.
e MIR Chessinan, a wealthy residen
a Of Etna, Pa. who is afflicted with bror
;, chial trouble, is compelled to sing
J. asleep or awake, in order to keep fror
l. smothering. His voice can he heard i
the stiffness of the night, floating on
o on the air in musical cadences whic
@ have weird effect in the quiet village
:. -Ansonia, Ct, boasts of two youn
i lady hunters. who, suitably dressed
e with their fowling pieces and accom-
d panied by their dog, go to the wood
l. and return with as good a bag of bird
Vi as do any of the hunters of the opposit
:, sex. Best of all, they seem to enjoy tn
sport and long walks which they ar
sometimes compelled to take.