DANGERS OF THE EXHIBITION :THE SCOTCHMAN AND HIS MISSING WIFE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 3311, 16 November 1878, Page 3

DANGERS OF THE EXHIBITION :THE SCOTCHMAN AND HIS MISSING WIFE.

The Rctppcl tolls a story of a Scotchman who had gone with his wife on a visib to Paris, probably for the first time in his life. They went of course to the Exhibition, but before, the day Was nearly over Sandy was seen coming back alone, and what 1 was worse still, making 'straight for the office of the police) His gestures, however vehement, did ; nob suffice to explain his meaning, while the solo lauguage which he spoke — being that of his native land — was still more unintelligible. An interpreter had to be found, and by his aid ifc was ascertained that the sufferer had lost his wife,'" The terror of tlie poor man, and bhe "conjectures in which he hod evidently indulged as to the adventm-es of the lady, might have exeibed the sympathy, of a much more unsympathetic person than even a French commissary of police. A detachment of gardiens was, of course, sent off at once in search of the dame errant, and while they were gone the afllicted husband seems to have been picturing to himself all sorts of terrible scenes, in which the Don : Juans of modern Paris played an alltimpor bant part. His suspense was not, however, of long duration. Only a few nunutes' search sufficed to discover the losb wife sibting disconsolate on a bench oubsido bho Exhibition, unattended by any one who could possibly be taken for Don Juan, and weeping for the loss of her faibhful consort. The meeting bebween the loving pair must have beon a sighb to have touched the heart, of the mosb unfeeling gendarme. As for the husband, the immensity of his gratitude and his sense of the peril to which he had been exposed were testified by his producing from his purse and offering to the police what the French paper calls " two bancks-notes " of £20 each.