Year: 1868

A singular little episode happened on


Wednesday evening on st. Clair street,


resulting in the utter discontinue OF a
young man "oA furtive mischief bent"


We withhold the number ofthe house


where the romantic affair occurred aud
the name of the young lady, by special
request, although by her valor she well
earned place amCng the heroines of the


werld. Time, between nine and ten
o'clock P. NJ, scene, clearinghouse
on the above street-pretty young lady
in the chamber diyesting herself of her
habiliments andipreparing to bid the


world good night.


For some time an amatory young gen.
man living at the same house has been
enamored of the maiden, and has wOsed


her with the most untiring assiduity.
The feeling was not reciprocal, however;
no responsive chord being touched in
her heart. Vainly he sighed and plead,


prostrating himself at her feet and GO
ing through all those eXtravagant de-
monstrations to which despairing
swains resort to make an impression
upon the flnty heart feminine. But it
was mo go;" she proved utterly incor-
rigible and gave him to understand in
language and actions which could ad-'
init of no misinterpretation, that he
was Wasting his sweetness on the des-
ertair.'


At the time mentioned above, when
the fair but doughty damsel was sur
rounded by the debris of dimity, CATERS,
duplex elliptic and all the fearful and
wonderful paraphernalia of feminine
apparel, her ear was startled by an un-
wOnted sound as OF some person or some
thing pulling at very large grapevine
which, we should have before stated,
almost covers the end of the house. Her
heart went "pit-a.pat" as she paused a
moment to listen. The wind could not
play such pranks, neither cats nor rats,
the primeval cause of so much noeturn-
al alarm, could make such noises, and
the thought of burglars at once entered
her head.


Nearer and nearer to her window
which was partly raised, the curtains
being clesed-came the sound, while she
stoed tranfixed with terror. She was
mastering her vocal powers for tre
mendous scream, when the mystery was
solved by the curtains being suddenly
pulled asunder and the appearance in
the aperture of masculine face, which
she at once identified as that of her ir-
repressible lover. The precise object of
his erratic visitation must be left to
conjecture, although he began to as
sure her that he meant no harm. But
she proved herself fully equal to the
emergency, and without awaiting an
elaborate explanation from him, she in
stituted series of proceedings which
must have fully convinced him of the
failure Of his attempted coup de main.
Doubtless he had not thought her pos
sessed of so much "nerve," and was not
little surprised when the half-clad
maiden seized the wash-pitcher and
dashed its contents in his face, literal
ly deluging hin from head to foot.


His perceptive faculties at once sug-
gest ted to him that he wasn't wanted
there, and he accordingly commenced
beating a hasty retreat. 1t seems that
he had placed q ladder against the
house, but this proved too short to reach
the window, and he had completed the
ascent by means of the vines. En-
ragged to the fury of young Amazon,
she quickly followed up her success by
hurliug the pitcher itself upon the head
of that wretched and thoroughly demor-
allied young man. 1t was well aimed,
and after caroming on the crani.
um bounded to the ground. The
luckless wight, who was about
half way down, foil half stunned by
the blow, uttering n vehement excla.
nation forming perfect rhyme with
" clam" lie picked himself up ana fled
the scene completely vanquished. The
was surprised in the morning
by his appearance at an earlier hour
than was his wont, and still more did
she marvel when he informed her that
he should wrestle no more with hash at
her place, but should change his board
ing place at once. He would not step
to explain his sudden exodus, and de-
sired to liquidate his bill and 90 at
once, not even staying for the natutinal
mail