TANTALISING EXPERIENCES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10505, 31 October 1895, Page 3

TANTALISING EXPERIENCES.

Some very curious answer* would doubtless be received by au enterprising editor who should offer a prize for " the most txntaluing experienco"' sent in by his subscribers. It is at lr-__st 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. Iv America quite recently some 30,000 people had n-._imb.ed to see an inter-nniver_ity football match. The teams were well matched, and a most exciting game ensued. Among the roaHside assembly were a large and varied collection of: beggars, some blind, some de*f and dumb, and some crippled. The crowd bad passed inside the enclosure, and the ghouls of the club partisans gradually became too much for the deaf and dumb, who scaled the fence and added their plaudits to , those of the spectators; this tantalised the cripples to such an extent that they discarded their crutches nnd climbed alongside of tbeir comrade-", and then .night. have been scon tho edifying spectacle of ten " blind " beggars with one eye each glued to the crocks in the fence! ■ But even this instance gives way.beforo the following "tantaliser": —A passenger in an English express train—no other occupants— two hours before the at xt atop'page—a packet of Indian Chief Cigarettes—no mitchet, and an inaccessible bright light in the lamp overhead.

Smoke " ROYAL COLORS" TOBACCO.