Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-06-27
Nebulosities from July Galaxy"


Who, IN face of the daily encoun-
ters with the widest insanities of
love, would assert that any man or
woman born to the purple of great,
unreckoning affection, to the sway OF
many hearts, must of necessity be OF
this or that defined type? Love be-
falls, overtakes, and motley is indeed
his only wear. Who can say how it
happens 2? There is patent nobili-
ty, OWNED sweetness and steadfast-
ness, trick Of thought, speech, or
look-any or all these ; or there is
nothing tangible even there may be
that which hurts principle and gals
taste and before ono dreams of lin
gering one is bound hand, foot, will,
past all praying for. With even the
briefest looking at life one ought to
accept loves marvels placidly F.; yet
how we puzzle to account for an oc-
casional exaggerated vagary. Here
is a bachelor who We settle is TO be
bachelor always; no mas a passion
for music, or art, or science in one
form or another-a passion 80 strong
that heart and soul seem wholly alb.
sorbed or he is over-exacting and
fastidious, and though he has fluttcr-
ed here and paused there, though
this time his choice would have been
perfect actually and romantically,
and another time it is, yes quite GER
tain, still he passes on, the benign
ant handkerchief is not dropped, and
his solitary state becomes firmly as
sured. Suddenly this foreordained
celibate, after a courtship brief and
ardent as a Norwegian summer, mar
ries a woman neither young nor beau
tiful, a woman who does not simulate
oven the smallest sympathy with his
dominant taste ; a vixen, an invalid,
whom suffering has so well-nigh Graz
ed that her own family demonstrate
with the reckless lover, rake open to
his gaze the buried offences of the
past yet his infatuation is not to be
one whit sllayed, his haste one mo-
ment stayed.
-Trollope's last and in some re-
spects cleverest novel contains some
semi-Thackerayish, more than semi
ironical observations on the beatitude
of chance marriages, and the world
ly wisdom of trusting to luck in mat
rimonial connections. : Love
matches, even when founded on years
of previous acquaintance, may never
theless fail to be happy. Strange
qualities sometimes develop them
selves on one or both sides, perhaps
with the new relation, perhaps not
till after years of wedlock. In the
wisest and most careful marriages
thore is a great deal of lottery, look
ing merely at the dispositions of the
two contracting parties, and without
taking into account the physical and
moral properties of offspring, the
chances of business, and other doubt
full elements. Surely, surely, when
so many leaps must be made in the
dark, if we can do any of our jump
ing by daylight, we ought to do it
1t is not selfish or mercenary fo' a
young man to say, 81 will never de-
cline wife, in other respects suita>
BILE, because she is portionless but |
demand that her pecuniary position
be made plain to me, and her fortune,
so far as it depends on her family, as
sured now, ono way or the other. =
As it is, many parents are guilty of
passing their daughters offunder false
pretcnces, bringing them upand mar
rying them under an organized sys-
tenn of deception.
The papers have recently been
reporting that Bostonian visiting
England a short time since, was in
quired of in London eff the Indians
in Boston worshipped at the same
churches as the white residents. -
We can voueh for the authenticity
Of remark still more brilliantly ig-
norant, which was made on this sub
iect in the same great city Of London,
to New Yorker last year. A fami-
ly of Americana lived for few
months at one of the London hotels.
The nurses used to squat upon the
floor sometimes, to play with the
babies. An English lady who saw
them said, in perfect sincerity, that
she supposed the nurses had learned
this fashion from the Indians" con-
slant intercourse making them natur-
ally adopt their customs.