April 19, 1887 — Last Monday evening Mrs. E.J. Armstrong, on entering her dining room, went to the large lamp that hung suspended in the usual way, and in attempting to adjust it, so as to bring it nearer the table, was shocked when the lamp broke from its attachment at the ceiling and fell violently on the table. The lamp, though a glass one, did not break, and Mrs. A. hastily picked it up and threw it in the fireplace.
Mr. A., who was in an adjoining room, hearing the crash, hurried to the room, and at once taking in the situation, snatched the lamp from the hearth, which was yet burning, and threw it in the yard. While Mrs. A. was quite painfully bruised about the hand and wrist by the fall of the lamp, it is fortunate that no more serious damage occurred.
How the lamp came to fall is a mystery, as when put up it was tested by one of the workmen swinging by the hook with all his weight from which it was suspended.
~ From the public archives of the Page News and Courier
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