Show amusing mistakes droll mistakes aro are of course endless here at aro a few cull culled e at it I 1 random a n dom before tho ilia paris pans exhibition was open cites I 1 to the public and when the building contained only oaly the cases which were being ranged for tin the respective exhibits quite a crowd one sunday flattened their noses glass ent entrance ranco door to look at ilia content of a case containing a 11 pair of boots it battered list hat an overcoat much the worse tor for wear bear awl aud it a necktie of mary many colors tho the report being circulated that the objects belonged to king dagobert Da gebert geberl robes pie pierre i irre or charles X tho the enigma was solved by it a painter arming and throwing off his hid blouse and slippers anil and commencing to dross dress himself am amid I 1 what lint was wag a puzzle to him loud iona laughter in in which the police joined kinod referring to tn mistaken ideas abon alfont relies relics recalls the tha story in is a german paper about a certain professor which is a parallel to 0 o tho the bill stamps advona t tara are of Mc mackwick kwick a german antiquary quary mado made the delighted discovery tits that a stone placed over a table door bore the tha inscription 1081 I 1 must havo have this stone in m my col leo lection tion cost coat what it may thought the savant savu Dt culling calling a tenant firmer farmer who was tho the proprietor the professor said to him eagerly 11 did you not obtain this stone from the castle ruin on the hill yonder V it may bo be that my grandfather fetched it thence whoa when he built the stable B was vv t the h lr reply 1 T iho h 0 a antiquary nt iq ua r y yb t then en asked wh what at he be would ute take for tho the stone 1 since bines you appear to have bare a lanoy fancy for it taid said the tha farmer 11 give me forty guldens gullens gul dens and I 1 will bring it to your house 11 rather lii ither a large sum barn said eaid tho the pro fes fessor see I 1 but bring it to my residence 3 and ki you U shall have tho the money when alo e n in duo course the farmer brought the stone upon a track the zealous antiquary turned it over to refresh his eyes with a sight eight of its venerable chronological inscription not without anxiety that it might have hare been damaged dama goil in its removal wh why lie exclaimed 11 what is this this is a not the right stone stona on the stone I 1 bought from you wits was tho the date 1081 while this bears the ilia very modern date 1801 which proves prove that the other was waa exactly seven hundred handrail fi and lla twenty years older than this do not trouble about that bat said baid the peasant tho masons you yoa sea BOO sir turned the stone upside down when they set it in the ilia doorway because causell it fitted better that way you can turn it whichever way you like butof couse course 1 I must have the money agreed upon the professor it is OW at once paid the whole sum and gave the man a broer present I 1 0 bid to take tago way away the stone and a say a tn no 0 more about tuo the mutter matter the numerous marous Du instances of mistaken mista kezi identity identify on record are constantly re coining ceiling now new additions addition fi there is is an amusing account of a french aidy who was very jealous of her husband and determined to watch his bit on one occasion when he told her he wall waa going to versailles sho she followed him keeping him is in sight eight till she eba missed him in a passage leading to the if railway a station elation looking about lier lei for a tow few minutes mi autes she saw a man cc come mo out of a glove shop with a rather ever sure distance that this thie man was hot hor husband obe bho came suddenly up and without a word of warning gave him three or four boxes on oa tho the ear car the instant the gentleman tur ceil round sho she a Isco verel her mistake raiB tako and nil at the same time caught sight eight of her husband who had merely r ajr flailed called at a and was waa ing crossing ilia ibo street thoro thero was waa nothing bot h for it but to faint in ia the arms of the gentleman whose oars eara she ebo und had boxed whilo while tho the other lady moved away to avold avoid a 16 scene the stranger astonished to rail an lady in lis his bring f was inether if startled by a benj gen alem aleman seizing him am b by tho the collar and demanding demaa d dingli ding jing what he mount meant b by embracing that lady why file blo bated my cars and then I 1 I 1 11 fainted exclaimed ilia aggrieved gon gen ilawan inu she is ia my lay witol wife shouted tho ilia angry it tib band 11 nut ami would never have lit ruck nick you yon without u t canso canno anti anil worse than angry words would probably have followed had not tile causo cause 0 of ahn whole recovered to explain liow how it ull nil happened A london paper gave all 00 coconut of 0 another caso case of akon identify in connection with tt a distinguished personage an aged couple in high lita life who were celebrating their golden wedding liy by way of 0 concluding the ou on khlat occasion adjourned with the ilia chil dreu aull their belongings belon giuga to a theater thon ter in which to accommodate HO large a ivirty two tivo boxes had bad been knoo knocked keil into one OBI deat son bon who strongly resembles his royl royal highness the of dyales stepped forward anti abl occupied the tha centor center betit with tho the ladies indies ol of tho the party beside him bim upon which tho the struck up tho ilia cai tonal anthem anti and tho the audience roso noeo to their feet en masse ilia party of course doing the same themselves there thera is ia no doubt that people of rathor blither unusual proportions had un an awkward time of it when the claimant was vaa nt at large A story goes that a corpulent gentleman once fool fook a box at ill alio canterbury hall birst ono then another eyed erod lim hini until at length the counterpart of 0 tho the claimant became the center of observation A cheer arose the singing was waa suspended and an ovation was the t the supposed sir bir roger ros croaa aua and bowed ilia his acknowledgments edg ments lint hat that was not enough anat eak tho the lumia gyr noha lioun ced t that h bip t sir roger laid had it 11 cold anil could not speak Iea TinK the consequences if tha th audience audi discovered diBo their mistake mi ho he bad the tha 11 claimant removed as quietly as possible pos Bible in it a cab and sent bont in a roundabout ronni labout way to his acme the bricklayer who squared up to is a post anil and maintained a one tight light affords an absurd illustration tritt ion ol of mistaken identify but if we can rely upon newspaper reports such sack ludicrous incidents are surpassed by what is SAM mud to havo have happened in ill tho the neighborhood of morecambe Moteo More ambe cambe homo time ago tile the body of what was wag a sap u P postil agol by the tha discoverer to bo be A hu hudaa man ee being was found lying on tho the beach near door the place fib above ova named having undoubtedly undoubted 11 boca been left there by the tha receding it tide le the ibe usual preparation tor for holding an orthodox inquest wits put lit in force and kept going until the tha examination eia of a medical man proved tho the suspected dumun corpse to bo be but tho the carcass of it monkey which lad had probably been tb thrown own overboard from a couo me ship and which so closely ro gambled in in appearance a human being as aa to require a doctor to tell the differ once encel bach aich a mastako inlet alio looks poolig oither either like a gross flattery upon a doud dead monkey or fill an conscious satire upon laman human re caltia to d delight alight all believers in tho ilia darwinian theory Chain bora journal |