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Show A LOVER'S ATTEMPTED VEN-,c VEN-,c EANCE. Some live or six years ago a young mau named Charles I'crim, 23 years oid ami a carpenter bj trade, tell m lovo with a gt-od-looting girl whose parents lived in Orchard tti'eet. Cuniiea 1: as red huir and a fruckled face, aud although the youug lady treated him courteously wneu he called at tiio house, she had her mind made up that she could never ned a red-headed man. After an acquaintance of three weeks he asked her to become Mrs. renin, and was greasy taken down wuuushc told him alio couldn't think ol such things. Cnarles tiien sougiit to havu the old folks put iu a good word for him, but , they declined to interfere. He con- tinned his visits, perhaps hoping to 1 sullen the girl's heart, but Thuroday , evening the crisis came. He went to . the house with a bottle of acid m his pocket, prepareu 10 spou uoi beauty if she did not givo him a favorable answer. There was no one at home but the girl and her mother, and l'errin lira l wanted the girl to take a walk with him. She- refused to go, and he aked to see her alone. She also refused this request, and the lover had just got ready to draw the bottle lroni his pocket when something some-thing bit him. lie thought it was a dog, but it wasn't. The cork had worked out of tho bottle, and his coat tails were turning brick color at the rate of a yard a minute. The acid wasn't content with tho coat tails, but struck out for flesh, and iu about a minute the young man was dancing about the house as if to escape a bullet. Shouting and whooping whoop-ing he got out of doors and threw otl most of his clothing, and rolled in the mud, and it was some time before be-fore any one could find out whether he had snakee in his boota or nan aai down on a brad awl. He was so bad- 1 ly burned that two men had to help him to his boarding-house, on Filth street, where a physician dressed the burns. There was a good dual of laughing at his expense, ex-pense, and if he makes his appearance appear-ance at the house again he will be arrested, as he told some of his friends in advance that he meant the acid for the girl. Detroit Free Fress. |