Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1869-04-05

A FREE WEDDING TRIP.-The independence
Beige relates the following amusing story -
IAN official of the Parisan Undertaken So
cety had promised his bride to make with her
n wedding trip to Spain. At the eleventh
hour, however, he managed to obtain her con-
sent 20 GO with him to Florence instead OF the
land of chcstnuts When they set out the
Young wife was no little astonished to see that
he put on the carriage in which they were TO go
to Italy trunk which had very unusual
shane What is in it ? she asked curiously.
Ohio, triAos, replied her husband. oh, l
divine everything thought tho young wilo
he intends to surprise me With something. -
And so they started at rapid rate by the way
of Marseilles. Toulon and Genoa, to Leghorn,
They did not stop anywhere. aud hardly took
time to breakfast. we shall repose at Flor
ence,' said the husband, cousolingy; there
you will sec wonders-paintings, statues, &c
At leugth they reached Pisa. There they
we're met by carriage drawn by two black
horses. They entered it, and the trunk
was put upon the carriage, which passed on
very slowly Why, We are now travelling
very slowly, said the WIFE That is the
Italian way of travelling, said the husband. -
Look : she exclaimed suddenly, a procession!
In fact long procession, headed by priests,
moved along the road. There were In 1t
scolytes holding wax tapers and censers they
we're singing, and some bore the Italian eo!ors
aloft. They might have kept still, said the
husband, fretfully. The carriage was not long
in oyertakipp the procession, and now suddenly
it grew as dark in the carriage as if it was sur
rounded By an Egyptian darkness. The young
wife opened window OF the carriage to see II
It was so dark without, and she was horrifed
to End that a black pail had been thrown over
the carriage. She lifted the pail little, and
saw the carriage surrounded by torch bearers,
singing the DE Pofmdis.' Her hair stood
on end. Without taking time to ask her hus
band what it all meant, she jumped terror
stricken out of the carriage, upon which she
6xed her eyes searchingly. She perceived
that the trunk was wreathcd with evergreen.
For Gods sake, what does it meah| she ex-
claimed, faiutiug away. She afterwards learn
cd that the trunk was the coffin OF an Italian
patriot, who had died in Paris, and that the
Undertakers' Society had taken 1t upon itself
to convey his remains to his native country
The young official had availed himself OF the
opportunity to make free wedding trip to
Florence.
ABOUT MoNEY.-lFrom llarper's Maga-
zine -"Money is the concentrated essence OF
Labor. A man who has a thousand dollars
has a thousand days work IN his own
hand. If he knows its value he can move
about among men with the force OF .
thousand laborers-that is, wltha hundred and
twenty horse power. There are three uses OF
money; the use of getting it, the use OF keep
ing IT, and the use of spending it. Consequent
lv il cassi6es the bulk OF mankind into money
getters, money keepers, and money spenders.
The love of money Is the pleasure of mental
function In getting or keeping, or spending, -
The sponge and the spendthritt arc equally
guilty with the miser.
"The class of money getters includes merch
ants, gold miners, pickpockets, politicians and
professional beggars.
The class of money-keepcrS is small. Lit
ersry men are not found in it. Lawyers are
good at keeping money, Money, like SOME
other essences, has puugent, sweet taste but
10 be kept. must be corked tightly. 1t evapo-
rates in the open air, and the vapor consists n
interest. 4 mortgage Is condeusing lnstru
ment which enables money keeper to evapo
rate a moneys spender.
1.-The class Of money spenders includes the
majority OF mankind. 1t is natural to spenc
money before We get it. We are all born t
this, and cost great deal before We earn any
thing. The power 10 get into debt is esseotia
to the happiness Of all shiftlesS people, incud
ing most of the Governments OF Europe
College students and married women, who have
no legal capacity to bind themselves, satisfy
this propensity by getting their fathers auC
husbands into debt, if possible.
Money is like gunpowder. To make i
carry, charges should be carefully measured anC
we'll rammed down. Its explosive power dc
pends on the tightness with which you hold it
Scattered loose. it fzzles away with no effect
ITO become wealthy, one mast both get ant
keep. To be useful, the wealthy man mus
be also judicious money spender