AN OFFENSIVE "VALENTINE."

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 7002, 26 April 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)

AN OFFENSIVE "VALENTINE."

Miss Klinoekbebg is a young lady who likes playing off practical jokes on her dearest female friends when they happen to have in-curred-her displeasure. She lives in New York; and this is what occured,_ relates the Herald, on. Valentine's Day, in connection 'with her latest attempt at fun. Another young lady, Miss Grace Russell, her sometime bosom friend, having fallen into . disfavour, she determined to do something disagreeable to her. On the morning of "Valentine's Day she called on a male acquaintance, and asked him if he would leave a parcel she brought, nicely tied up with blue ribbon, at Miss Russell's house. "It's a valentine," she added; '"so take care not to Bay rsentit." Charlie, shemale acquaintance, promised obedience, and set forth on ; his errand ; but en route he fell into thehandsof thieves, who snatched his parcel from him and made off.' A policeman, however, witnessed the theft, and caught the robbers, who were brought up before the magistrate. What is the value of the property, inquired the latter, stolen by the accused 1 A policeman, to determine the point, untied the blue ribbon, and took off wrapper after wrapper ultimately disclosing a box, the contents of which caused him to avert his head. The magistrate also averted his, for the enormous dead' rat -which, was Miss Klingerberg's valentine smelled very offensively indeed. The prisoners' council profited by the discovery to ple?.d on behalf of his clients that it was not : a ease of robbery, though it might be one of body-snatching, and the magistrate discharged them. The sender of the valentine, however, who hoped to give her dearest friend a good fright, expressed her opinion that three months' imprisonment would Have served the idiots right for stealing her rat; ■■ ..."-.