A RUSSIAN LOVE SUIT

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2325, 10 January 1890, Page 2

A RUSSIAN LOVE SUIT

The St Petersburg correspondent of the " Loiadon Dally Telegraph" writes :— ♦ A Vity oarloas law suit will be heard In » few days In one of the. lew oourts of Warsaw, whloh might be made the basis of nn Interesting novel It in all about • swallow-tall ooat, which Mi L, an inhabitant of the anoteat aaplUt of Poland, ordered of a well known tailor, and whloh for a covenanted anmwMtjbe delivered punciiaaUy by a certain day. The tailor, however, like moit Busihn tailora and tradesmen) failed to keep his" word, aad delivered the garment the day after th'Jtftrm fixed, when it proved, ai Russians Bay, as aeaaonabie ; a» mustard after supper. Mr L. not only refuted to pay 1;ho stipulated earn, but oammenoed proceeding against the tailor for very heavy damages for the momontoai and lamentable remits of his dllatori, nn©H; and hereby h«ngs the tale, $ErL alleges in his 6tat)ment of olaim that he r qaired (he swallow-tailed coat to qualify him i;o appaar at a large eveniog party given by the parents of the lady of hia heart, wbose hand be intended to formallyitolioit in the oomie of the evening during the valee, the qa#drille, or the mazaika. Unprovided with the magio evening dress, he was in t!ha sad predicament of the guest in the parable 'who had not on a wedding garment; I but, 'ffieer than that person, b^ > did not pqt ia an appearance, Meanwhile, • the otbei fei'ow,' t»kiog a mean advantage of him, wen, »od flaw, smd conquered; proposed, wus a^o pted, and is now the cbrriiihed bridegroom of. the beantifol H ion Tho-OQjrt h nay? called on to estimate 1 in roubles and oopecks t l>e extent of th<» loss ioflioted on the confiding Mr l»« b; hj| diUtory taUoi! iM W Iw^

upon a eubetantial fee from the latter for being taught the tiuth of the o^.d ada^e, that " a stitch in time saves nine."