Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-02-21

A won,a,. i sometime struck with a man
before marriage, and BY him afterwards.
Mr.. w. II Weisman was recently mar
ried TO Mas Farthing. He asked for far
thing and received assent
An important reform is commencing in
India. Widows, instead Of burning them
selves on the graves Of their husbands, are
marrying again.
A lady told her husband she read the
Cart of love- 70 him on purpose to be
agreeable. "Iwould rather have love with
out the art" replied be.
A Spanish writer remarks Of a lady's
black eyes. They were in mourning for the
murders they had committed"
When q man and woman are made one
by a clergyman, the question is which is she
one. Sometimes there is long struggle
between them before the matter Is finally
settled.
What is the difference between honey
comb and honeymoon A honeycomb
consists Of number Of small cells" and
a honeymoon consists of one "great SELL"
A hundred and twenfy-four women Of
Kansas have petitioned Congress for the
right Of suffrage. Well, isn't woman as
good as niger?
A lady wrote some verses upon window,
intimating her design Of never marrying.
A gentleman wrote the following lines un-
derneath:
The lady whose resolve these words betokes
Wrote them on glass to show il may be broxen.
An amorous swain wrote TO his friend:
"Dear Harry-You ask me what sort Of a
game i am playing with Jack Graham for
Clarissa's hand. / have 10 say. in reply, it
is game of double or quits, and the re-
suit Is that double and he quits"
A Missouri paper announced that the
"wife crop in Gasconade county, would
probably amount TO 10000 gals" The
next issue of the paper contained an ex-
PLANTATION that il was intended TO use the
word wine instead Of the word wife.
An elderly gentleman travelling in a
stage coach was amused by constant fly Of
words between two ladies. One Of them, at
last, kindly inquired II their conversation
did not make his head ache, when he an
swered with great deal of naivete, 1--WE
been married twenty-eight years.
A precocious pair Of IA and Is summers
respectively, residing in Baltimore, took il
into their heads 10 get married, which they
did on "Wednesday, and started for the con-
genial society Of Washington. The parents
followed and found the youth selling papers
and the girl sewing for a clothing store, both
happy as cooling doves.
An editor says his attention was first drawn
10 matrimony by the skillfnl manner in
which pretty girl handled a broom. A
brother editor says that the manner in
which his wife handled broom is not very
pleasant.
eff you ever think OF marrying a widow"
said an anxious parent TO an heir, Select
one whose first husband was hung; for that
Is the only way to prevent her from throw
ing his memory into your face, and making
annoying comparisons" even that won't
prevent II - exclaimed a crusty old bache-
Tor; shell praise him by saying that hang
ing would be too good for you"
Albert c. Roberts, alias "John Happy"
Of the Nashville Republican Banner, was
united in marriage, at Montgomery, Ala, to
Miss Edith, daughter of DIR. ]. Goodwin Scott.
The Huntsville Independent supposes the fa-
cetious John never Thought he was happy
before in his life. This is the third mar
rage in that Office within the last few months,
which certainly entities il to the title Of ban
ner Office in the matrimonial line. Happy
they, the happiest of their kind" etc.
"Why, Bill, what's the matter with you
You look down in the mouth" "Well,
Pete, l guess Il you had been through with
what have, you'd look SO, too.s whats
The matter?, You know Sarah Snivels,
don't you, Pete ?" Yes "Well, ! dis
carded her last night "You did What
for2" swell, I'll tell you. She said she
wouldn't marry me, and I'd discard any gal
that would treat me IN that way"
A widow lady, named Mrs. Henrietta
Watts, from Dayton, Ohio, accompanied by
her children, arrived in Chicago on We'd
nesday. On the cars she formed the
acquaintance of man who, after many in
quiries as to her history, proposed to marry
her. To this she consented, and they pro-
cesded 10 a hotel for that purpose. While
therethe man, by the practice of his strategy,
got possession Of $3.50 belonging to Mrs.
Watts and absconded, leaving her entirely
destitute in a strange city.
Let the wife only understand and have
faith In her true position-that of woman
"the helper"-and she needs neither great
gifts, nor beauty, TO be always charming to
her husband, and while she walks by his
side, to-" Fill all the stops of life with
music.' In being literally his heip-meet'
she becomes the beautifier and healer Of his
life. 1.-THE vine about the oak tree, to which
she is often compared, be truly her emblem,
Il Is because she binds together the broken
boughs and drapes with verdurous lowell.
ness the withered branches.