FREAKS OF A WOMAN.

Kumara Times, Issue 413, 22 January 1878, Page 4

FREAKS OF A WOMAN.

Lord Chesterfield once remarked that people areas much afraid of a live r iMt,->as a.svoman i 3 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 as his Lordship's live wit,, but not until he is found out ? A mysterious humorist of this kind has been playing pranks in Rochester. Candy of a confectioner and bogus -money given in payment. An order was'left for a wedding-cake which was .never called for. . Another order was left at the rooms of an undertaker, and he took a coffin to a house where a joung 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 i "- coe, -night-and on running to the stoop received a shower of bricks which had been .'-suspended over the door. At -last: the unknown joker betrayed herself. She' left this bogus order at a coal dialer's : "Please send over one ton of stove coal as earley (sic) as possiable (sic),—Dr.C. D. Wooden." Subsequently she sent an anonymous letter ..from Albany to Dr. Woqdin, who, of course, had. never ordered the coal, and in this letter was the word " im- ..., .pQssiable." , Her peculiar orthography betrayed her. A detective, whose .•suspicions had been excited, worked up the case, and finally asked "her to writes" the word "possible," and she spelled " possiable." ..The giddy '" young' creature was somewhat dazed when she was held to bail foVlconimitting forgery. She said she had dniyj'meaht it in fan.