Truth - Sunday, April 28, 1895
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A FRENCH DUEL.
ALL ON ACCOUNT OF OSCAR.
Mendes and Huret, two Frenchmen, fought a duel on account of some remarks made by the latter as to the relations of the first-named with Oscar Wilde. The cableman merely states they fought. He does not think it necessary to say neither was hurt. A boy is in greater danger of being injured in a game of three-hole-span than a man has of being perforated or punctuated in a duel in France. The man who would wait long enough to fight a duel on an insult, as suggested in the cablegram, would stand to be pelted with some of the forgotten duck-eggs of last year's setting.