The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1890-06-12
A HOPELESS CASE.
The Ridiculous Adventures of an Absent
Minded Man.

The Ridiculous Adventures or an ADSenG@
Minded Man.
The freaks of absent-minded people
are often amusing to hear of, but so
great is the inconvenience which they
cause to the perpetrators and to their
friends that one never hears of them
without the feeling that absent-minded-
ness is to be Stunned as a disease, and
fought against in every possible way.
An amusing instance of the plight into
which an absent-mindGd man may con-
trive to get himself occurred at an ordi-
nation in Maine not long since, when a
number of clergymen were gathered to
ordain one of their brethren.
The place was country town, and the
visitors, instead of being quartered at
hotels, were distributed among the
members of the society at whose church
the ordination was to take place.
DIR. Blank, who was to preach the SER
mon, stayed with an old deacon, and, as
it CHANGED, was quartered in room
upon the door of which was spring
lock.
Just as the moment came for driving
to church, DIR. Blank appeared in the
parlor where the family were waiting,
and announced that when he had come
out of his room he had forgotten to put
the catch of the lock down, and had
left on the table within not only the
KEY, but the sermon he was about to
deliver.
For an instant there was complete
CONSERVATION, but fortunately the son
of the family recollected that there was
duplicate key, which was produced,
and the doctor went plaeidly upstairs
| after his manuscript.
Three minutes later he reappeared
with an expression of mingled con-
triton and despair upon his face, and
explained that when he got to his room
he could not remember what he had
come for, and that laying down the key,
he had started to ask, but had been
brought to his senses when the door
once more swung to behind him, and he
realized that it had again shut in his
sermon.
There was no locksmith within call,
and it would have been desperate case
| for the doctor had not the son once more
come to the rescue by procuring lad
/ der, and climbing in at the window OF
the chamber.
He took the double precaution of TAX.
ing from the table his own key, and Of
setting the door opea with a chair
against it, and the clergyman, who was
profuse in his thanks, once more went
upstairs to get his sermon.
When he came down. the family
started for church, and just as they
reached it the hostess remarked, with a
smile, that the congregation would never
know how near they came to having nc
sermon. At the words a sudden pale
ness came over the face of Doctor Blank
II have left it at home after all!'' he
gasped, holding out the key to his room
II took the key adp'-Youth's Com
panion.
This is a time-honored belief
which has been shattered number o
times, but certainly on no occasion
more effectively than by this story
from Hopkinsville, KY, paper: 'Talk
ing of quail, Colonel S. NJ. Starting, o
this vicinity, now in his eighty-fourtl
year, has broken into countless frag
| ments the ancient and hoary supersti
ton that to eat quail, however daintil.
cooked, for thirty days successiyely
will produce nausea worse than seasick
ness. On the last day of last October
| haino IN rather delicate health. he be