The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-08-16
CONNUBIALITIES.


Or needless winter winds across IT blowing,
How long, sweetheart, how long, would you
remember
How long. dear love. how Iong9
For brightest eyes would open to the summer
And sweetest smiles would greet the sweet
newcomer.
When all the summer buds TO bloom are
breaking
How long, dear love, how long
To the dim land where sad-eyed ghosts walk
only,
Where lips are cold, and waiting hearts are
lonely,
would not call you from your youth IS warm
blisses,
Fill up your glass and crown ii with new
How long, dear love. how long /?
Too gay In June you might be to regret me,
And living lips mieht WOO you TO forget,
But ah, sw eetheart. think you would re-
When winds were weary in your life's De
So long, dear love, so long
GRAY hair was SIS an ounce at last
quotations.
MOVING for new trial-popping to
Mrs. Mo-.
THE GREATEST curiosity in the world
"a wOman's.
JONES AND his wife agree grandly On
one point; she thinks more of him than
of anybody else in the world, and so
does he.
THE LADIES give as q reason for
marrying for money that they so sell
dom find any thing else in man worth
having.
''Take her up tenderly
Lift her with care.
No one knows how dearly shc's paid for her
hair"
Two BACKSLIDERS of the Shaker
community at Watervliet, o., consun-
mated their backslidings and were
married in Dayton Oh Wednesday.
THE PRINCESS of Holstein-H oer, who
is an American woman, has sued the
relatives of her deceased husband for
$50, 100000.
AN EDITOR says that he he's heard of
secret down in Portland which was
30 big that 1t required all the women in
the town to keep it, and they would
not do SO without the help of their hus-
bands.
VICTOR HUGO says: 1.-THE devil has
been illuminated. He hid not seduce
Eve; she tempted him. Woman COM
menced it. Lucifer was passing peace
ably by Paradise. He saw Eve and be-
came Satan"
a UTAH settler was recently tried
for scalpiDg his wife, when the Judge
remarked that Sin the East, where he
came from, instead of scalpiDg their
wives, men now load them down with
false hair and kill them with kindness
whereat the audience laughed.
A YOUTH in an Eastern city was
euamored of a young lady in that town
but was too bashful to pop the ques-
ton in person, so he went to Pittsfield
and telepraphed her "Will you marry
me?" He waited an hour or two in
fever of anxiety for the reply, and got
it in this brief but pointed sentence:
'tNo, you fool, you," and he had to pay
for his lady-love's dispatch besides.
A WEALTHY bachelor, having had
one or two law suits for breach of
promise, now replies to any yourg lady
who wishes few minutes private
conversation mo, you do not mad
anne. 1t cuts me to be compelled to
doubt the honorableness of your inten-
tions, but that sort of thing Is played
out. My rule is imperative, and IL you
have any business to transact with me
il must be in the presence of two wit
nesses.u
THE MARRIAGE ceremoney In Japan
consists OF the man and woman drink.
ing wine from the same cup. Divorce
is not much more elaborate than mar
riage. The husband gives the wife a
piece of paper with a few lines of char
acters on ii, and the knot is united. A
translation of the lines is given by re-
cent correspondent, as follows: al no
likee you. l thinkee you likee other
man more better. / give you piece a
paper. You can go. Goodee by"
IGAvE her a rose and gave her a ring,
and asked her to marry me then; but
she sent them all back-the insensible
thing-and said she'd no notion Of men.
/ told her had oceans of money and
goods-tried to frighten her with
growl; but she answered she wasn't
brought up in the woods, to be scared
by the screech of an owl. 1 called her
q baggage and everything bad; l
sighted her features and form till at
length / succeeded in getting her mad,
and she ragged Ike the sea in a storm.
And then in moment I turned and
smiled, and called her my angel and
all she fell in my arms, like a weari-
come child and exclaimed, 1--WE will
marry this FALL"
A RETIRED and respectable baker in
Penk, idge, England, some few years
ago, lost mis- wife, and, like Mr.. Weller,
q widow soon found out his desolat5
condition and attempted to console him;
alter time indicating that her heart,
hand and fortune could Ice his by the
asking. She was possessed of almost
fabulous wealth, hut a somewhat misei-
ly disposition, and MIR. Rogers as point
edly indicated that he didn't care to
change his condition. A short time
since she sent summons fer him, as
she was very i'll and thought herself
dying, which proved to be the fact |
Mr.. Rogers, still nbdurate, wrote for
msl and stiff letter of coincidence, but !
didn't go near her. What was his
surpr; re, therefore, to learn that he had
been made her heir tn estates, &c.,
valued at $4,000 a year, so that he is
still bound to remember this tenacious
female.
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