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Show His royal highness the Prince of Wales vas present at a noble lord's once together to-gether with all fashionable London, and after dinner the best musicians, both vocal and instrumental, were preparing to display their talent, when suddenly gut went the light, and performers and audience were left in total darkness. As the bight was electric and was supplied from a private engine which had chosen this inopportune moment to go completely com-pletely wrong, there was nothing for the giver of the feast to do but to collect aii the available bedroom candlesticks and empty bottles and stick candles all over the place. The effect was most comical and seemed to cause amusement to every body but the host. San Francisco Argonaut. Argo-naut. ' |