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Show Krurlng Lunatic. In one of the most fashionable districts dis-tricts of Paris a mock marriage was recently re-cently planned for tbe purpose of ac--urlng a rather dingeroua lunatic An attractive young person named Mademoiselle Made-moiselle Delaplume waa atltlng In ner boudoir the other day, In a house sit-naled sit-naled In a street off the Iloulevnrd Aatnt-Uermuln. Suddenly a ring came t'i the door, and one of her servants, ,'iavlng opened It. ushered In a well-dressed well-dressed mun looking like n superior sort of valet lie told Mademoiselle Delaplume that he had a letter from one nf her friends, a countess, and 'is the joung woman put her hand out to receive the missive tho stranger seised her fingers, pressed them to tls lip, and then, sinking on his knees, made a passionate declaration of lote, and offered to marry her. Mademoiselle. Dtlaplumo saw by the man's eyes that he was dangerously mad, and, fearful of a tragedy, she accepted hla offer wlty apparent calmness. Then she Invited In-vited ths strsnge visitor to tho major's otllce In order to hffo tho nuptial rnot tied. The man accompanied her with alacrity to the establishment In question, ques-tion, where a secretary. Informed of the real state of affairs, pretended to rend tho civil marriage regulations. The mock bridegroom was then tsken by a detective to the police depot under un-der the delusion that ho waa bound tor a pastry cook's, there to gle an order for n sumptuous wedding breakfast The man was, It appears, formerly employed em-ployed as a valet by one of Madetucl-stllo Madetucl-stllo Dclaplume's friends. |
