A CAMBRIDGE EARTHQUAKE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2065, 1 October 1885, Page 2

A CAMBRIDGE EARTHQUAKE.

An esteemed c<mp-p<nulpnt at Cambridge sends tis flic following humorous naitatne ; -Much alarm was experienced the othu morning by a gentleman well-known in cmi \ivml cnclos in Cambridge, when, on entci ing Ins office, ho beheld that hi-, valuable pi|ieis and books had been cast to the Hooi, the chniis adorning his sanctum <»\eithmwn, ji id the mi-cliicf generally played among his biusiness belongings. The evident solution was that an earthquake h id recently occurred, and one of an e\-ci-ptionnlly violent character. He mimedi itely gave the alarm, and ;» fiiend coming to the rescue set to work to exploie the cau>e of the phenomenon. "Finding a drawer open he immediately jumped at a conclusion and at the other gentleman's cia\atatthe same time. " KureL'i '"' he cried. " Look out for my shirt-front '"' said the other, " what's the inattei '" " Bui glnrs '" excitedly a w>rted his fiiend. 1 am afiaid this fiiend v.is sadly wanting in sympathy for In* friend-, feeling-, as the sequel showed he was ,vi accomj>liee of the burglar, or eaitliqu ike, 01 whit>'\er it was There is si well-known einiiu' lndnidinl in tin-, town connnonly called Shilling (ot itC,(]Ul\.il< lit). Tin- "-Ihl'^v memliei < >f Miciely belong-. t'> a noted \endoi of Scotch ni'Ti, long sleew-r-, and othei cm ion-, cmi coctions of a liquid n.itme. It apjieus that this "d.iwg"' had been in.idveitently locked in the office by the gentlemen well known in comhial, &c , (and this accounts for all the old women in that street prophesying duo n\ents in the city, foi he must have howled huns'lf hoaiho, and no joke ) Finding his imprisonment somewhat proti acted, urn canine fiiend aniu-od himself by d.mcmg around like a mm WouH do, feeling considerably nnd, and altei upsetting chnir-, stool I*,1 *, letter books, inkstands and pen lacks, letter weight', and innumeiable document-., and aftei wauls sitting upon them, the pooi dog ga\e it best foi the night. In the nioining (Sunday) ho com nienced dancing amund again, and leivwed his howling with mci eased delight, when the friend mentioned happened ty enter his office adjoining that where the dog was. This happy conjunction of ciicunistances led to Shilling's leleisc thiough a middle door, of w hich the friend hid the key. The f l lend w is lnimediateU knocked down and licked all o\er, but foitunately escaped with a few biui-es, the most serious injury hems,' a CMitn-ion i>f the left blinker from Shilling h iving Diit his foot in it. The unaccountable mysteiy is thus plainer to tt.o readi r than it \va< to the \ictim of mi<placed coiihdi'tiee in dugs. I advise him to look undei all hi-, tables in future befoie locking up, as we nevei like to heir ,\ man using such juo fane laniruasre as mcess.vuly follows incident-, of this d^sciiptiou