THE MAN WHO CARRIED HIS POINT.

Grey River Argus, Volume XV, Issue 1836, 24 June 1874, Page 4

THE MAN WHO CARRIED HIS POINT.

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The following ridiculous story i 3 told of a neighbouring Committee-man. The evening before the day on which he was to pay an official visit to the school, his wife put a new ceiling in his pants, and accidentally left the needle where she did the work.

Arrived at the school, he stiffly returned the salutation of the polite teacher, and majestically settled into the •' company chair." It didn't seem to the most acute observer that he had just touched the chair, when he at once began to ascend. A wave of perplexed pain passed over his face, as his hands soothingly partedhis coat-mild. The look of blank si ir prise from the f< :icher drew from him the blushing explanation that he never could sit on a " cane seat." A wooden chair was at once offered him, into which he dropped almost as quickly as he got of it again. The instant he struck on his feet he shook his fist angrily in the face of the astounded tutor, and hoarsely shouting, "I kin whip the pewser-lanermus man what stuck the pin in those cheers," he snatched up his hat and fled home.

" Lord, Eben V exclaimed his wife, as he tore into the house, " What's the matter with you?" " Matter !" shouted the infuriated man, as he snatched off his coat and flung it out of the window, "I been made the fool of the entire district by that sneaking teacher," and his Sunday hat flew through another window — "Pins stuck in my cheer as 1 was sitting down as onsuspishus like as I am setting in my own " "Lucretia!" he ominously howled, as he sprang out of that chair, and spasmodically went for the wounded parts with both hands, "you're foolin' with your best friend now, and he ain't in the humor to stand the triflin'."

In an instant it flashed in the good lady's mind what the trouble was. In the next instant Eben's nether garment was over her arm, and there — there in the midst of the repairs glittered the source of all the annoyance.

The unfortunate man gave one brief stare at the evil thing, and falteringly remarked, as he thought of the future, "I'd a gin twenty "dollars, Lucretia, if you hadn't found it."

A case of apparent resurrection from death causes wonder in Collinsville. Mrs Charles Blair, Jr., laid for several days at the point of death from pleurisy, and finally seemed to have ceased to breathe. The physician was about leaving the house, when returning once more to the patient's side, he thought he saw signs of life. Stimulants were administered, when suddenly the paitient revived, coughed up a mass of matter and rapidly recovered. At last accounts she was likely to be well again.

A flying military bridge, made of ropes, has been successfully tested over a small river, forty yards wide, in the Park ef Malmaison. Posts were driven into the qanks, ropes run across, scantling placed at the bottom of this hammock bridge, a piece of artillery weighing three tons was rolled along, followed by a company of soldiers marching quick step.