An Amusing Story.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 75, 2 March 1885, Page 4

An Amusing Story.

The following story reaches us from Paris:— A lady having paid her hotel, bill, sent away her box on a cab and salied forth on foot. No sooner had she departed than the landlord discovered that the clock had disappeared from the mantlepiece of the room which his late lodger had been occupying, though he remembered to have seen it there subsequent to her trunk haying been despatches! Convinced that she must be the thief, he rushed out m hot persuit, and overtaking her, he charged her with the robbery, and gave her into custody, the lady meanwhile protesting loudly against the traducer. She was, however, taken before the Juge to whom she resumed her torrent of indignant denial with the extraordinary volubility peculiar to the daughters of Gaul. Her indignation Y^as, at its height, when lo! twelve o'clock rang forth m clear tones from the: region, of madameV dress im-| prover. The expression of consternation ; depicted upon the fair pilferer's.; covritenance, together with the appositeness of the quaint phenomenon, were too much for the gravity of the officials, who burst into a fit of .uncontrollable laughter. Five minutes later a female warder returned the telltale timepiece; to its owner. Will . Mrs Oscar Wilde still insist upon " the ulter uselessness of that hideous monstrosity — the bustle ?" . . . ,