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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2041, 20 July 1875, Page 2

jA { Fictitious Lobd^Matob.-tA'.pid. vincial dining^at a restrau'nt in Paris (so says a Paris journal) sat hear a very" re-' spec(ablc : lookiDg. ( grey-headed-, person, with whom he entered into conversation. " To whom have I the honor of speaking?" said he',^l nm the Lord Mayoj.'bf London," said the venerable diner with great simplicity. " I came over to assist at the first representation at the new Opera." ."I^have^een.;that in^tlie papers," rreplied .the ; ojthbr,:intjm i.ting that his new acquain,tance was,inlncfc. ", MonDieu," replied tho soi-disant Lord.Mayor, *'.I pay for my place like others. . I. have bought a box, and there,are three o£:us.'\. After a short silence, he resumed,.'" "I was about to add that-1-would sell the fourth, place." " For how. muchf. ".said the other, Two hundred francs j' would .you like itP" "Ishould think so," said the other; "hoyr .much XJthaptj yo r ii,'[ uiy lord." p ." Very well,!', was the reply'"; "ask this evening for' Wo. 4, Avant^Scene^and'giremethe money. I have but just lime to dress." The provincial paid tho money, and has since made a complaint to the police. No true woman will ever marry a man so tall that she cannot reach his hair.