LATEST THING IN HATS.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4546, 31 July 1883, Page 3

LATEST THING IN HATS.

The Utest thing in hats bas come from America. It is meant to combifie the ad* vantages ofthehead covering with those of an infernal machine, so that it will no doubt command a large and speedy sale. It is the sort of thing which no conspires tor* warftr^e should be without. Inside the hat. which is described as " rather tall"—like the story, if may be remarked —there is a neat receptacle for about a quarter of nitroglycerine, which is concealed from- the vulgar gaze by "a smell mirrcr." The timefuse is worked by withdrawing a pocket-handkerchief; so that gentleman have only to leave their hats in the neighborhood of public offices, cathedrals, and other edifices which it is decided to destroy in the interests of freedom, adjust the handkerchief and walk away. The idea is not altogether new, and we believe it is borrowed from the , Bussian Nihilists. (Thus do the 1 inspirators of genius encircle the world in their cause). One of the methods suggested for destroying the late Cfcs? was that a large number of Nihilists should eoßceal bombs in their bats and enthusiastically throw thejlatter into the air ■ when the Emperor passed.t Buyers of the American invention who are readers of -iiißtory (which they are all sure to be) may perhaps remember Clarendon's description of how Felton, .the murderer of the first Dnke of Buckingham, might hare got off scot-free ifhe had not been seen walking about without his hat. A gentleman of rather wild and foreign aspect, dashing •long Downing street with some appear•net of hMte, and with nothing on his head ./bttfc+nature'g, aoyering, might possibly : I arous* some suspicion—even in the breast '?,' of a cfetectire.