The Baltimore County union., 1866-06-09
miscellaneous,
Marriage Particulars.

The varieties-of this, the great human
even-are, at least, worth collecting and
presenting for innocent wonder and we
begin with several very curious ones which
we find in the g chronological Journal"
A WOMAN HUSBAND.
In 1773, woman went courting q
woman. dressed as man, and was very ia.
vorably received. The lady to whom
was much older than the lover, but she was
possessed Of abouta hundred, pounds and
this was the attraction to her adventurous
friend. But the intended treachery was
discovered and, as the original chronicler
of the story says, the old lady proved too
knowing A more extraordinary case
than this was that of two women who lived
together by mutural consent as man and
wife for six and thirty years. They kept
a public house at Poplar, and the wife,
when on her death bed, for the first time
told her relatives the fact concerning her
marriage The writer'in the Gentlemans
Magazine, (l776) who records the circum-
stances, states that both had been crossed
in love when young, and had chosen this
method to avoid further opportunities 1t
seems, however, that the truth was suspect
ed, for the husband subsequently charged
man with eXtorting money from her un-
der the threat of disclosing the secret, and
for this offence he was sentenced to stand
three times in the pillory, and to undergo
four years Imprisonment"
MUCH ATTACHED TO THE MARRIAGE STATE.
&c 1t is usually considered noteworthy
circumstance for man or woman to have
been married three times but of old this
number would have been thought little Of
St. Jerome mentions widow that married
her twenty-second husband, who in his turn
had been married to twenty wives surely an
experienced couple A woman named
Elizabeth Mast, who died at Florence, in
l768, had been married to seven, husbands
all of whom she outlived. She married
the last of the seven at the age of seventy.
When on her death-bed, she recalled the
good and bad points in each of her hus-
bands, having impartially weighed them in
he balance, wept over the grave OF her
fourth husband. The writer who mention
ed these facts, naively added, The said
soldier was much attached to the married
state" There is an account of q gentleman
who had been married to four wives, and
who lived to be one hundred and fifteen
years old. When he died, he left twenty
three " children" alive and well, some OF
the said children being from three to four
score. A gentleman did at Bordeaux, in
1872, who had been married sixteen times.
In July, 1853, couple were living in
Essex who had been married eighty one
years, the husband being one hundred and
seven, and the wife one hundred and three
years of age. At the church of st. Clement
Danes, l772, a woman of eighty-fve was
married to her sixth husband
MONEY AND MATRIMoNY.
The announcement of marriages pub
lished in the Gentleman's Magazine du
ring the great part of last century, includ
ed very precise statement of the portion
brought by the brides. Here are few o
such notices.
Mr.. n. Tillotson, an eminent preacher
among the people called Quakers, and rela
tive Of Arch bishop Tillotson, to Miss
with thirty-fve thousand dollars"
Mr.. P. Bowen to Miss N. Chools, Of
Queenhithe, with fifty thousand dollars"
"Slr George G - to the Widow
Jones, with five thousand dollars year
besides ready money.
DIDN'T KNOW THEY WERE MARRIED
A story is told of young couple who
went into the study of judge of the Su'
preme Court, some thirty years ago, who
as Justice of the peace, was authorized to
solemnize marriages, and desired him to
marry them"
An old writer says that to make an en-
tirely beautiful woman, it would be neces-
sary to take the headfro Greece, the bust
from Austria the feet from Indostan, the
shoulders from Italy, the walk from spain,
and the complexion from England. AT
that rate, she would be mosaic, and the
man who married her, might we'll be said
to have taken up a collection !'
at is the prevailing fashion on the con-
tinent for all the married gentlemen, as
we'll as the ladies, to wear the modest and
significant wedding ring, and this is now
likely to become gradually the fashion in
England. At the late royal marriage be-
sides the wedding ring of the Princess Alex.
ander, q similar gold ring was made ex-
pressly to be worn by the Prince HIMSELF
Marriage is a great equalizer--husbands
are not always lovers, and their influence
is not half so great as they imagined. AS
Artemus Ward says q troo''