The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1906-03-14
CURIOUS REVENGEs.

eVldence, ana anybody who takes interest
enough can see him any day In the week
CURIOUS REVENGEs,
Instances of Cutting Or tho Nose tn
London Globe.
Revenge according to popular SUPER
sutton, possesses properties that are
decidedly sweet. When, however. the
subject is looked into closely It is, II
| must be confessed, difficult to see JUS,
Where the sweetness comes in SO far
| as the majority OF revenges arc con-
cerned, but on the other hand inge-
nuity undoubtedly enters largely into
! the choice of fitting retaliation. and
| IN these instances the mere fact that
n happy Idea has been thought out IS
perhaps in itself n Joy The burglar
who some little time ago announced
at the Old Bailey that ne revenged
| himself upon the officers who arrested
| MIN by committing q burglary at the
| earliest opportunity on their beat In
| order to bring them into dtsrepute was
| perhaps lacking in the ingenuity that
| induced u Chicago lady w'lc had been
the victim of gossip to announce a
| lecture. 10 which n, her Getractor5
| were especially invited. and at which
the justly incensed woman told those
assembled exactly what her private
opinion Of them amounted to, but at
all events. his plan possessed the ele-
| ment OF originality.
Again. the photographer who paint
| ed prison bars across the portraits OF
those OF his clients who did not pay
his accounts, and hung the pictures
outside his studio for all the world to
see. resorted to II scheme CT retaliation
httlhs the offence, and one that was.
Il according TO her own statement about
} TO be adopted by Partisan sculptre So
few years ugo when she lost a law
suit that she Instituted with the Idea
or compelling fair client to pay fol
!, marble bust she had ordered. In
, stead. however, OF putting the defend
ant I'm 5ail' after the manner OF the
; ingenious photographer. the fair sculp
tress decided to transform the bust
, into caricature OF the lady and ex-
,hibit 1t at the Salon. She did not
mention, however. how she intended to
Induce the committee to further her
design, which was. after all. only III.
, adaptation Of many artistic revenges
that cuminated some few years age
In an Antwerpiun tenant painting
, across the front Of his house the
AT the Sign OF the Dirty Front" IN
French and Flemish. Us revenge up.
on his landlord who refused to pain
the front Of his house.
, In the course Of the summer Of 1870!
conductor on the tube" who wa
under notice to leave, sought to b,
httingly revenged ny putting on tn.
emergency brakes on his section -
} the train when In the tunnels, with the
result that the train was delayed for
|, ty minutes between ShepheIu BUSH
and the Bank and the system entirely
! upset. This me thod OF revenge, how
( ever. Will be rarely resorted to in the
-uture, d. at eHenls ny Tue WISE, lo.
the Magistrates who looked into tn:
case promptly fined the practical joke,
sl0 OF n month, and the would be
| II q "a fff fS,n ~
, was decidedly more expansive than
that adopted by certuin members of q
provincial city council. who had been
'closured," who rendered q whole af-
E ternoon's meeting abo1tive by refus-
I ing to vote at all OH + measure that
vote In the affirmative. That re.
'engcs. even when they At The oSense
to the admiration Of the retaliator, arc
! 1t times decidedly expensive was d's.
covered In 1902 by a South Coast engI.
neeit who evidently with the desire OF
;tJ. connected the water pipe with q
: gas pipe In an unocupied house, there
BY filling the gag :;;iin with wafer.
] Naturally this freak caused consider
: apie annoyance, but II is doubtful II
; any one was more put out than Its
e dne, $50 Oh account Of damages and
! the costs.
: Although In this instance the man
learned In mechanics was, in no sense.
hoisted with his own petard, the form,
OF retaliation to which he resorted had
In sense. one merlt-it was effective
= and though mtguided, was not without
} originality This latter attribute may
= also be said to have been shared by
the scheme OF retaliation devised
: shortly after the Spanish-American
war by Seville audience that at some
considerable expense revenged' Itself
upon the United States by purchas-
Ing all the seats at the opera house on
> the night Of the appearance Of. an
American prima donna and unani.
mously staying away. with the result
that the opening act was given to q
house almost empty, except for po-
/ licemen and detectives, while absolute
! silence greeted the finest efforts of the
: great artist. The form that this re-
VenSe took was the absolute antithesia
OF that resorted to some time ago by
divers schoolboys when their head
! master g great fogger, became a city
rector. The boys. with the usual cum
; ming OF their Kind soon discovered
that their former tyrant was in the
, habit OF excusing himself from Civ.
ing an afternoon service when less
than three non-officials were present,
: and forthwith resolved themselves IN
to q band OF twelve. subdivtded into
. four companies. who took it In turn to
attend the church on esch Sunday af-
ternoon, week by week for several
. months for the purpose Of entering 1he
: edifice at the very last moment, when
the rector was about to make his Gus
tomary announcement, thereby COM
pelling their victim to provide q SER
} Vice. Apparently. both schoolboys
and Spanish play sce-s failed to ap-
, preciate the fact that their policy CO.
J incided with the aphorism that II ia
unwise to bite Off the nose to spite the
:! INSURANCE HEARING TAME.
Albany. N. Y March lo-For many
nours to-day until nearly midnight the
Joint special legislative insurance in
vestigattng committee listened to ar
gufnentH or insurance presidents &C.
tuarles and agents. against some Of the