The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-10-30

ticatiOn as this may suggest al lndefi-
mite variety of experience.
A curious case of OSCILLATION re-
ported from across the Atlantic
Some time ago a Mr.. Fin Oh. who
was in the jewelry business in New
bern. United States. sold a Young
lady named Miss Waters what was
described as beautiful set real jet
the bargain being that he was TO re-
ceive in payment thereof 100 kisses,
to be paid at the rate of one kiss daily
Mr.. Finch was to call at the lady's
house every morning, Sundays except
ed. to receive his daily kiss, which
Miss Waters undertook and promised
to deliver to him. For thirty consecu-
tive days - Sundays excepted----M-.
Finch punctually called upon Miss
Waters and duly received the stipu-
lated salutsIion. Ga the thirty first
day, however, Mr.. Finch made a
formal complaint that Miss Waers
was not fulfilling her contract mas
much as she permitted him 70 kiss her
cheek only. He maintained that this
did not constitute legal kiss and de-
manded that he should be allowed to
put his left arm around her waist and
kiss her in the highest style of the art.
To this. however. a firm refusal was
returned. The lady offered Mr.
Finch a ch ise of cheeks. but insisted
that the contract would not bear t E
construction he put upon it. There
upon Mr. Finch, IL great indignation.
brought an action for breach of con-
tract against the lady.
This action raised several new and
interesting questions, amorg the most
important OF which was. what consti
tuted, in the eye of the law. kiss ?
The plaintiff SET up the further plea
that there was a difference between
active aud passive kisses that Miss
Waters had promised to give him a
certain number of kisses-not merely
to allow him to take them-and that
giving kisses was an act which re-
quired the use of the lips. The case
was the subject of considerable cuntro-
versy in the press and elsewhere but
the writer, unfortunately, has never
been able to discover the result of the
legal proceedings which were institu-
ted and has concluded that cOmprom
Use of some sort must, as was at one
time expected, have been br, ught
about.
An equally remarkable kissing tram
saction occurred not long ago in Aus
tria. In this instance kiss was actu-
ally put up for sale by auction and
publicly bestowed upon the highest
bidder The occasion was charity
fete got up i'm the little town of To-
ranlai Oh behalf of the poor at Agram
The weil-meant enGeavors of the be-
nevolent ladies and gentlemen who
acted as statesmen and staliholders to
induce visitors to purchase trlfies ex-
posed for sale at twenty times thei.
value had not succeeded. Business
was not brisk. The public who fillei
ihe sale were not in a generous mood,
and the organizers of the fete were
disheartened. AT this juncture one of
The lady patroDesses. remarkably
beautiful won an. had what she thought
happy inspiration. She took her
husband aside, conferred with him for
few minutes, and shortly after. with
his consent, offered a kiss to the high
est bidder, the sum paid for the favor
20 be added TO ,he receipts of the fete
The result of this novel idea hardly
came up To what was antici pated
Very low sums were at first offered by
the young mentor, OF course, the feme-
Inc portion of the visitors were not
tempted 10y The orportunity-and ulti-
mately the kiss was knocked down at
the relatively palirr figure Of fif cen
horin> and eleven kreuzers. The nus
band OF the lady. seeing the slight
store set by me lavor, offered to pay
the amount himself and take the ..iss.
but the claiman. had already handed
over the money, ard as he refused to
agree to tie bargain being Cancelled,
the kiss was exchanged before the as
sembled company.
A young lady reading in a newspa-
per the other day of a cir! having been
made crazy by sudden kissa called
the attention of her uncle, who Was in
the room, TO that rather singular oc-
currence, whereupon the old gentle
man gruffiy demanded what the fool
had gone crazy for. What did she
go crazy for ?" archly returned the in
msiden. why, for more, l
suppose.
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