A STRANGE LUNATIC.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1721, 28 November 1887, Page 2

A STRANGE LUNATIC.

I A very extraordinary lunatlo hat beea discovered m Paris, and if his luriaoy went no farther than the form of mono* mania he Buffered from, the authorities might do worse then liberate him and make him an offiolal. For six months this individual has passed as an inspector of cabs. He rose early m the morning and toiled hard all day m visiting cab stands, and by personal examination of a most searching dejoription, making sure that vehicles m all their equipment were clean and serviceable, that the homo were properly 'groomed- and fed, anfl t'hafc th-ir shoes were m travelling 'condition? Ibe cabmen had never knoVn an bffjolal so pHinataktnif ia the performance of his <mtiea, and they treated h/.in with' the qrave&t dbforenoo He might qtiil b« pros outjng hts yolnqtary p^llfng bqt fq^ overstretching bis assumption of Authority. Ho threatened to BU^pand fifty cabmen because they had overdtiven their hordes, Probably this waa true, but the o&bbieg would not stand uuch wholesale oaehlevlug, and they defied him. During the disturbance the police intervened Tha PBeudo-*n*pector drew up his report, a«d he and the Jehus proceeded to the Oompany'a offijea to adjast the differences. Tha o'erka knew him not. He deolared he had bneu appointed an inspeotor ■ yaar ago, and he beoarae v- ry au-ouvatie i i -hrearening t> get the o .ief ol«rk dis« missed. Ttua if-d to the poor tnan't ors^o netng dUcovursd