Blown Up

A Scotch journal says thai a eertain well known painter went to a seaaide vlllage to pailit a picture, and put up at a small public house. One day, while in hls room, he heard a commotion, and on running down stairs found that the chimney was on fire. Two or three men were trylng to put out the flames by sweeping the spot down wlth brooma, but the blaze was too high to be reached in this manner. Seelng their want of success, the painter caught up q thick mat. ran with It to the roof, and elimbing up the stack of chlmneys, placed it on the top of the one that was on fire. Hls Idea was, of course, to obstruct the draft. It happened that a stift breeze vaa blowing, and as the mat was in danger of being blown off, the artist sat on it to hold it down. He was just comfortably seated when he found himself lifted bodily and landed upon the tiles oí the roof. What had happened? That was more than he could imagine till he went down stalrs. No one knew that he had gone aloft, and when the laridlord saw that sweeping down the dust was ineflectual, he tried the old fashioned remedy of lighting a charge of gunpowder. This It was that removed not only the soot, but the mat and the painter. Fortunatelj the painter was not badly hurt.