AN AWKWARD INCIDENT.

Evening Post, Volume XIV, Issue 48, 25 August 1876, Page 2

AN AWKWARD INCIDENT.

The following incident is told by the Whitehall Review :— " Two English travellers, man and wife, arriving at their hotel in Pans late the other night, ordered supper to be brought to them in their bedchamber. The lady, deemed it necessary to make a mustard-poultice for her husbpnd, who was suffering from a severe cold and cough, and being unwilling to ring for a servant owing to the lateness of the hour, made up the remedy with the aid of the mustard-pot in an adjoining room and then sought the apartment in which she had left her husband. Going up to the bed, she applied the poultice to the chest of the recumbent form, and immediately afterwards was more than surprised, on looking for her watch, to find that she had entered the wrong room and unintentionally made victim of a stranger. Hastily leaving the apartment, she succeeded in finding her own room, and rather unwisely communicated her adventure to her husband. He, good-tempered man, positively declined to ' go into the stranger's room and apologise,' as his wife naively suggested, and both were on their way for Calais ere the landlord was summoned to No 24 the next morning and informed of what had occurred."

We wish to inform the public that a contract has been let for re-building and altering the premises next the Odd Fellows' Hall, where we are at present canyiug on the Sale of Marks' Bankrupt Drapery Stock, so that wo must leave the premises in a few days, owing to the above reason, and have made further Reduction of Prices to enable us to clear the stock. All goods remaining unsold after next week will be sold by public auction without reserve, for particulars of which see advertisements; and as this is a large stock, and a genuine clearing out without any reserve, it will be to the interest of anyone wanting Drapery to avail themselves of the opportunity thus afforded for laying in a stock that will last them for months to come. Heads of families, runholders. country settlers, and the public in general will do well to note this, and attend the Auction Sale.— J. M'Dowbli. & Co., Vendors.— [Advt.]