TANTALISING EXPERIENCES.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 7587, 5 February 1896, Page 3

TANTALISING EXPERIENCES.

SofJB vpry curious answerswould doubtlesbe received by an enterprising editor who ahould offer a prize for '■ tho most tantalising experience" sent in by his subscriber-. It is at least open to argument whether it is worse to have a good dinner served and no appetite, or to have a magnificent appetite and no dinner forthcoming- nn In America quite recently some 30,000 people had assembled to see an mter-univer-Bity football match. The. teams were well matched, and a most exciting game ensued. Among the roadside assembly were a large and varied collection of beggars, some blind, some deaf and dumb, and some crippled. The crowd had passedinside the enclosure, and theshoutsof the olubpartisans gradually became too much for the deaf and dumb, who scaled the fence and added their plaudits to those of tho spectators ; this tantalised the si'sppis- to such an extent that they discarded their crutches and climbed alongside of their comrades, and then might have been seen .the edifying spectacle of ten " blind" beggars With one eye "each ftiueci to the cracks in the fence ! But even this instance gives way before the following " tantaliser :"—A passenger in an English express train—no other occupantstwo hours before thenextstoppage—a packet of Indian Chief Cigarettes-.no matches, and an inaccessible bright light in the lamp overhead I