A KISSING MATCH.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 5788, 5 June 1880, Page 7

A KISSING MATCH.

At a party of young men in Paris conversation happenad to turn on the subject of kissing, and the subject was propounded who of the young men present could boast of having given, or being able to give, "his girl" the moat kisses. Various were the replies the question called out. Finally a young man and the girl to whom he was betrothed bet two hundred francs that they could kiss ten thousand times in ten hours, provided they be allowed to take au occasional glass of wine " between." Two persons were appointed a committee to count the number of kisses, and the work began. During the first hour they counted two thousand kisses. During the second hour the kisses were not nearly so numerous, for the committee only counted one thousand. After the third hour, during which they managed to score but hundred. and fifty, further operations were brought to a sudden standstill. The lips of the young man were te'zed with a cramp, and he was carried off in a fainting condition. The girl, a few days after, was stricken with brain fever, which nearly carried her off to a land where kissing, under any form, is unknown. When the people who had won their bet demanded their money the parents of the girl refused to pay her share of it. The matter was then taken to the Courts, and there it was decided that the bet must be paid.