A JEALOUS HUSBAND AND SPIRITRAPPERS.

Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 636, 15 February 1870, Page 4

A JEALOUS HUSBAND AND SPIRITRAPPERS.

[queen's messenger.] Sensible people wonld be astonished to .learn the number- of people who consult somnambulists 6c. spirit-rappers, in the various contingencies of. life. Thefollowinsji account of a recent occurrence in Paris may show to what edifying results the. indulgence of this practice may somor times lead. A French husband, who was . cast, in the same., mould as Othello, the jealous Moor, wished to find out for certain, whether his wife, was! faithful *° m< Very likely he had reason to doubt it, for he could find no peace until he had tried to settle the point by appealing to a somnambulist, The somnambulist, ho wover, refused to commit herself to any statement unless she was put in possession of . a lock of the lady's hair, so. that the husband was. obliged to wait until he had found means to out off- a mesh of his consort's tresses whilst she was asleep. Once provided with this means of invoking the oracle, he returned to the prophetess, who received Tier fee, went to sleep, and in a few minutes later made the husbandls hair. ! stand bolt upright by declaring that .the owner of --the; lock of., hair a woman ' profligate beyond expression. During five minutesj.the husband listened in ghastly horror to the somnambulist's denunciations ; but ; at last he could stand it no longer, jumped off his chair, bounded down the staircase, aiid Sew homewards through the-streetsj rushing- finally into his wife's presence^ with . his eyeballs, starting, and his 'tongue evpknig all the .powers celestial and infernal to punisli.her. 'heartless' treachery. The lady. Uateried. with great patie*)ce : to the anathemas, and it was only whenJier husband's rage had; pretty nigh ; worn liiui. out that she venr: tured to ask what was the matter, and to: request an 'explanation. "Explanation !'• roared the marital victim ; "Why; haven't I explained that the somnambui list has revealed me everything 1 ? Ah, • madam, there's no hiding one's actions from the somnambulist. Unhappy woman, 1 gave her a lock of your hair." "Oh',"" replied the lady quietly,. " is that it?". Then rising; with great; solemnity;, she raised her hands to her hair, and, in less time than it takes to write, removed the. whole fabric of.curlsv tresses,' and chignon, revealing to the astonished husband, a head perfectly bald and smooth as a billiard ball; "There," she exclaimed; '?. are you ' satisfied now •? ' If you had suffered me to do so, -I. should have allowed you 'to remain ignorant of the fact, that I was bald ; but since you oblige me - to speak, in selfrdefence, I .have to. say that I lost all my. hair, when X was.achild, and that. I. have, never! h^d, any since, -The lock you took. to a somnambulist waß. a false one." This said, Desdemona put on her chignon again, and left: Othello to his reflections— not pleasant ones, if we may believe his friends! ; for they pretend that, since this adventure, Othello has : become tacitiu'ii, and carbf ttl!ly avoids all I allusions tp Bbmn!arabiilis'ts, ••■..-•■.