Brigham City Bugler | 1891-09-26 | Page 2 | An April Fool

Xu Jprll Fool. ' A joke upon popular credulity was a ' trick perpetrated iu London no longer ago than 1800. Thousands of persons received oilicial looking invitations to be present ou Sunday forcuoon, April 1, "to witness tho annual ceremony of the washing of tho 'White Lions in tho Tower." Tho favored recipients of these missives were instructed to present themselves them-selves at the White Gate for admission. All that forenoon tho streets near the Tower wero thronged by hundreds of vehicles bearing peoplo in earnest quest of tho White Gate. Finally somebody a little less thick witted than the rest of the crowd remembered that there was no white gate to tho tower, that there wore no white lions, and that ceremonials under governmental auspices on Sunday wero at least wildly improbable. Like on electric shock his reflections flashed tnrough the throng of ceremony seekers, and their recognition of the fact that all were "April fools" sent them scurrying away in nngTy hasto, Belford's Maga-itine.