Weekly Trinity Journal

A Legend of Switzerland.—In Switzerland, once, a man was shaving at a window, when some comical fellow cracked away at him with a snow ball. The missile struck the razor and cut the man's throat, and he died from the effects of the wound. This was in the Canton of Claris, and since then the authorities have decreed that whosoever throws a snow ball shall be sentenced to six years' solitary confinement. Sixteen years after the dire event, the youth Hans Halschneider, now grown to manly years, stood, on the anniversary of the dread deed, at the same window shaving himself with the razor of the snow ball victim. He raised the low sash and holding the glittering blade in his left hand, stretched out his neck to gaze upon a beautiful young girl going by. Suddenly a wild blast of wind howled through the air—it shook the window, which had lost its lead—the sash fell on the back of his neck, the upturned razor was against his throat, and his head, completely dissevered by the blow, fell in the street at the feet of the lady, who was his affianced bride.