THE DUEL BY RUM.
A .novel kind of duel, with a tragical termination, has just tttkeu place outside Paris between to rivals in the affections of tho buxom barmaid of a wine tavern. The rivals were brothers, and they resolved to drink oopions libations of [ fiery and undiluted rum until one ur both should bo over-powered. The alcoholic article sold as "pure jums'.iuii i* Parisian taverns (the DiUlv Telojjraph's correspondent says) is bad enough when well watered, but when taken neat and in quantities it is worse than the poisonous absinthe with which too Frenchmen ply thetuselyoa <-.d libitum. Tba brothers b.egun their " rum duel " before the eyes of their damsel, who sapplied them with tho deleterious concirm™ a? they called for it. At last one of tbem foil 4o\yn by tho sidp of tho counter, aud wua curried homo carefully and restored, "'ho other went out into the frosty air full of liquor, caught a ehiil, i>nd died, thus leaving the Gold free to his rival.
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Waikato Times, Volume 2620, Issue XXXII, 27 April 1889, Page 2 (Supplement)
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167THE DUEL BY RUM. Waikato Times, Volume 2620, Issue XXXII, 27 April 1889, Page 2 (Supplement)
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