A Bostonian Incident

A worthy citizeu while proceeding on foot to his place of business the other movuing, perceived a thread hanging from the integumento of his oether extremities - in short, his trousers. Being a man of scrupulously neat iiabits, who is wont to preserve the strict appropriatenesa of every pai't of his utíire vil! i earnest and watchful zel, he at once laid hold apon the unnecessary Blament witli b gesture that should have dropped t upon the ground. But the thread lengthened itself and extended out nntil the worthy citizen began tó think thal hc had incautioiisly placed a spool from his wife'a workbasket in his pocket, where it was unwinding itself. This supposition was speedily dispeUed, however, by an apprehension of the fact that the chili wind was beginning to gain aocess to portions oí his frame from which it was ordinarily debarred, and that the villainous chain-stitches with which his garments were sewn were straihtcning out in his hand. Perceivina; thus that his raiment was nipidlv becoming segregated into lts original and component parts, he gathered the drapery of his coat-tails about hini, and by sidling, t-rab-liko stops "rtined the sanotuaryof his home again, whero he secared other and more reliable protection. Hul the story of tbe incldentyeaked out, and-to the discredit of liumivn ïiittuiv and the grief of swi'i't oharity, be it said the rlctimhas gained from it more derision than sym]iath .