UNPLEASANT INCIDENT AT A WEDDING.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2593, 23 February 1889, Page 2 (Supplement)

UNPLEASANT INCIDENT AT A WEDDING.

Some time ago a very unpleasant incident occurred at the wedding of a mar-

quess, at Paris. After the ceremony the guests repaired to the house to inspect the presents, and soon it was discovered that si very costly ornament had disappeared. Search was made high and low. There was a " march past" of the visitors, under scrutinising eyes, but all in vain. The missing article never was discovered, and to this day its fate remains a mystery. There really appears to bo some fatality in weddings with which marquesses are connected. Another marquess

married his son to a young lady belonging to a family well-known in Parisian society, and after the ceremony the party repaired to a restaurant near the Boulogne, where a choice luncheon was served speedily. When the time came for paying the bill the mnrquoss, who was the Amphitryon, felt now in one pocket, now in another, but could not find his purse. "It is very strange," ho murmured, "for I am sure that I did not leave it behind me." Then, turning to his wife, informed her of his dilemma. The lady, looking rather pleased than otherwise, remarked that, bearing in mind his careless habits, she had thut very morning , taken tho precaution of filling her purse with bank-note?. " Here they arc," she siddod. " No, they nro not. They must be in another pocket!" And she, too, dived into ono part of her dress and then into another, but eould not find her piuve. A wealthy banker, an old friend of the family, who had heard a few snatched of the conversation and guessed the rose, was now interviewed them. Luckily he had the wherewithal; but he, too, searched to no purpose. At last all the guests got wind of the affair, and all instinctively felt for their jmrao.-t. To tbeir dismay nine of them found that their pockets wore completely empty. During , tho crush in the v.'ftry a pickpocket had benn at work, roapiiiff a rich harvest, and spreading consternation in the breasts of the marquess's guoxts.