The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1871-04-20
HYMEN's HUMBUGs.
ANOMALIES IN MARRIED LIFE-RECoRD OF
THE Too-MUCH MARRIED.

ANOMALIES IN MAhhlEU l.lF E-ncISO0D Va
| THE ToO-MUCH MARRIED.
Among the remarkable marriages or
record, none are more curious thar
those in which the bridegroom has
proved to be of the same sex as the
bride. Last century there lived wo
man who dressed in male attire, AND
was constantly going about captivat
ing her sisters and marrying them
On the 5th of July TIT, she was tried
at a criminal court in London for thus
distinguishing herself, and it was proved
that at various times she was married
to three women, and defrauded them OF
their money and clothes. The fair de.
ceiver was required by the Justices to
give the daughters of the citizens an
opportunity of making themselves ac-
quainted with her features by standing
in the pillory at Cheapside; and, after
going through this ordeal, she was I'M
prisoned for six months.
In 1913, woman went acquiring a
woman, dressed as man, and was
very favorably received. The lady to
whom these not very delicate attentions
were paid was much older than the
lover, but she was possessed of about
91O0, and this was the attraction to
her generous 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 eth
er of these was that of the two women
who lived together as man and wife,
by mutual consent, for thirty-six years.
They kept a public house at Poplar,
and the "wife," on her death-bed, for
the first time, told her relatives of the
fact concerning her marriage. The
writer in the Gentlemdn's Magazine,
l776, who records the circumstance,
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
for the husband" subse-
luently charged man with extorting
money from her under the threat of dis
closing the secret, and for this offence
ne was sentenced to stand three times
n the pillory, and to undergo four
years Imprisonment.
1t is usually considered q noteworthy
for man or woman H.
nave been married three times, but of
Did this matter would have been thought
out little of. st. Jerome mentions a
widow who had married her twenty
second husband, who, in his turn, had
been married to twenty wives-surely
IN experienced couple! A woman
named Elizabeth Mast, who died in Flor
.nce in l76S, had been married to seven
husbands, all Of whom she outlived. |
She married the last of the seven at
he age of seventy. When on her death
'ed, she recalled the good and bad
'oints in each of her husbands, and,
aving partially weighed them in the
valance, she singled out her fifth spouse
IS her favorite, and desired that her re-
pains might be inferred near his.
The death of a soldier is recorded in
1874 who had five wives, and his widow
.ged ninety, wept over the grave of
Ter fourth husband. The writer who
mentioned these facts naively added:
The said soldier was much attached
0 the married state"
There is an account of a gentleman
Who had been married to four wives,
nd who lived to be be lis years old.
When he died he left twenty three
children" alive and we'll, some of the
aid children being three to four-score
A gentleman died in Bordeaux. in
772, who had been married l6 times.
At the church of st. Clement Danes.
1 1882, woman of 35 was married
, her sixth husband.
Instances are by no means rare of
ffectionate attachment existing be.
veen man and wife for period longer
IAN is allotted to human life. In the
lst century a farmer of Nottingham
led in his 10th year. Three days af.
.rward his wife died also, aged 81.
hey had lived happily together up !
ard of 80 years. About the same
me yeoman of Coalpit Heath, Glou-
'stershire, died in his lO4th year. The d
ny after his funeral his wife expired g