FRENCH WIT.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3268, 22 December 1881, Page 4

FRENCH WIT.

The following is a literal translation from the Puris Figaro :— " A news melancholy from Tunis. One knows that in this country droll one has the habitude to admire the women much stout. There was there one young woman of which the hand was sought by a lover impetuous. fcjlie saw him —blio loved him. Every thing was of accord ; the parents were amiables, the fortunes were equals. But one day it found itself that the husband future discovered a thing affrightful. The bride did not weigh, but three hundred pounds! With a calmness terrible he said to her — "We shall not re-see each no more. The bride of my brother weighs four hundred pounds. Is it that I could bring the shame upon my family in espousing a skeleton ?" He left her bathed in hot tears. As-soon-as, she took the determination, Blie resolved that she would enfatten herself. She ate continually for a fifteen of days. Misery ! Despair! she weighed but three hundred and fifty. Therefore taking her courage in tho two hands, she bought a tube rubber, like those at the means of which one fattens the geese of Strasbourg. Bt the end of a twenty of days she attained the weight needful. She sent to her lover. He wa3 run himself to the house paternal. r As he entered there was a sound deaf {tin bruit sourd) 'like the noise of a gun. What horrc ! His bride wa9 the victim of her love too true. She had exploded."