FREAKS OF A WOMAN.

Dunstan Times, Issue 826, 15 February 1878, Page 3

FREAKS OF A WOMAN.

~ i I-orJ, Chesterfield once remarked that people are as much afraid of a live wit as a woman is of a gun, which she is afraid may go off of itself and do her a mischief. That vulgar creature, known as the practical joker, stands in about the same relation to society as his lordship’s live wit, but not until ho is found out, A mysterious humorist of this kind lias been playing pranks in Rochester. Candy was bought of a confectioner, and bogus money given in payment. An order was left for a weddingcake which was never called for. Another order was loft at the rooms of an undertaker, and he took a coffin to a house where a young man was sick, and frightened his mother out of her wits. An auction notice and ludicrous bill of sale were posted on a physician’s door. A man heard a strange noise in the street one night, and on running to the door to see what was wrong he had to stoop, and received a shower of bricks which bad been suspended over the door. At last the unknown joker betrayed herself. She left this bogus order at a coal dealer’s : “ Please send over one ton of stove coal as earley (sic) as possiablo (sic). —Dr C. D. Wooden.” Subsequently she sent an anonymous letter from Albany to Dr Woodin, who, of course, had never ordered the coal, and in this letter was the word “ impossible.” Her peculiar orthography betrayed her. A detective, whoso suspicions had been' excited, worked up the case, and finally asked her to write the word '‘possible,” and she spelled it “ possiable.” The giddy young creature was somewhat dazed this week when she was held to bail for committing forgery. She said she had only meant it in fun.