A lady sitting in her rocking and quaking parlor, saw the wall part at the ceiling, open and shut twice, like a mouth, and then-drop the end of a brick on the floor like a tooth.

She was a woman easily disgusted with foolishness, and she arose and went out of there.

One lady who was coming down stairs was astonished to see a bronze Hercules lean forward on its pedestal as if to strike her with its club.

They both reached the bottom of the flight at the same time,--the woman insensible from the fright.

Her child, born some little time afterward, was club-footed.