Article April Fools Day - 1900
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes.
Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1900.
Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1900.
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Mouse Prank Goes Bad
Edith Walrach, a nineteen-year-old woman of a “very nervous temperament,” was said to be in serious condition as a result of an April Fool’s Day joke that went bad. While visiting friends in Binghampton, New York, a practical joker “procured a small live mouse, which he put in an egg-shell, covering the opening with plaster of Paris. This was brought in with the breakfast and when Miss Walrach broke the shell and the liberated mouse jumped out she screamed and fainted away. During the day she had three nervous fits, and her physician pronounced her condition critical.” The young man was said to be wild with grief. He was her fiancee.
References
- “Serious effect of a joke.” (Apr 3, 1900). The Fort Wayne Evening Sentinel.