AN EXPLOSION.
There was quite a scene in the Galveston Court House the other day. A young lawyer had just finished an impassioned appeal and diopped, as he thought, into his chair, but missed the chair. As he struck the floor there was an explosion as if a young cannon had exploded, creating much excitement. The prevailing opinion was that a pistol had exploded in his hip pocket, but, upon raising him up, it was found he had flattened out a beautiful silk hat. It seems that an old but reckless mem ber of the Bar was to blame for the explosion. When the younger lawyer was about to sit down the elder pulled the chair avvaj, but he had forgotten that his own silk hat was under that very chair. The elder lawyer laughed boisterously until he identified the mutilated hat as his own, and then he smiled such a sickly smile that, had it been photographed and sent to the Houston Board of Health, they would have been fully justified in quarantining at once.—“ Galveston News.”
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2468, 15 February 1881, Page 4
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178AN EXPLOSION. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2468, 15 February 1881, Page 4
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