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New Zealand Tablet, Volume V, Issue 258, 12 April 1878, Page 17

The French elections*, as UMial, drove «a considerable number of people mad. A Paris correspondent says : " The strangest case I have yet heard of is the following. A clever and well-known Radical architect had a party a couple of evenings ago at his house in the Buc Lecombe. The host had gone out previously muttering some unintelligible words, and his wife was very anxious. But when the guests were assembled and seated he suddenly reappeared in the costume of a gardener with an immense and well-filled watering pot in his hand. " Women aye pretty flowers," said he, with a wild look, " they require copious watering." He" began with an elegantly dressed lady seated on a sofa, and administered to her on head and shoulders a plentiful shower bath, of which he certainly had more need than his terrified guest. Before the others could escape he continued the operation, going round the room, and being perfectly impartial in his distribution of the ungrateful flood, pouring it on the neck and shoulders of one, on the head of another, and on the lower extremities of a third, and thoroughly inundating silks and ribbons and laces and cliignons. When he came to his wife, who began to remonstrate with him he cried out, " Oh I I won't water you ; you arc not a ilower but a weed ; it was with difficulty the poor gentleman was put under restraint.