The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-07-26

MARRIAGE UNFAsHIoNABLE.-Amo the
better classes marriage is becoming unfash-
ioEable. The number of educated business
men in our cities from twenty to forty who
remain single and have no intention to mar
ry is becoming very large. The hotels are
full of them, the clubs and boarding houses
TEEN with bachelors. / have hundred
times introduced the subject of matrmony
among such people Their comments are
curious, and nearly always in the same vein.
MIR. A. Not any for me, if you please"
Mr.. B. "Ofcourse women are well enough
in their way, but then / shall never bind my
self"
Mr.. c. Yes, / should look jolly with
wife and half dozen babies, shouldn't /?
OF course admire women hugely, especially
those blondes in the Black Crook! but
then | amt quite fool. No, gentlemen, I
sham hitch tail to my kite yet while.
When I'm played out, and want hot fannels
on my joints, then perhaps I'll sail in, but
for the present I'll paddle my own canoe"
Mr.. b. Why, yes, if the old cove would
come down with the stamps, i wouldn't
mind; but then l wouldn't go in Tor less
than a cool hundred thousand. The old
madam can't get her off on to me with any
of your thirty or forty thousand. You see
it won't go down. Can't catch me with
any of your small bait"
MIR. E. oh, of course know it (; she's
sumner, but then old Moneybags can't ex-
pect to work off his girls without showing
his hand. A fellow can't leap into the dark.
If the old skeesicks wants to get rid of EN-,
he must plank down the sinners"
Mr.. F. Well, boys, it's no use talking
the sort Of life we are leading is that of saw
ages. What does it all amount to? My
idea is little cottage with little wife, and
[ would have one if l were not afraid. The
fact is they are all sick, and the doctors
bills are more than all the rest of it. Now,
if could get wife with such health as my
grandmother had, would go in tomorrow
but these wasp-waisted concerns, why, they
haven't room enough for their blood-vessels,
saying nothing of their liver and stomach
and good dinner. No boys, the kind of
life we are leading is not bit to my taste,
but then the other thing-well, Ill have to
think of it. OF course | know that body
only, no matter how healthy and beautiful,
fails to make women. The best part of
woman is her beautiful loving soul, and l
should be sorry not to think that heaven
will be full of them. but in this world health
and strength are Indispensable To-day.
CLERICAL FUN.-In the newly published
volume of Monographs of Lord Houghton,
there is, in one of Sydney Smith, the follow
ing story of his clerical fun in Yorkshire:
He willingly assisted his neighbors in
their clerical duties, and an anecdote of one
of these occasions is still current in the dis
trict. for the authenticity of which / will not
vouch, but which seems to me good enough
to be true. He dined with the incumbent
on the preceding Saturday, and the evening
passed in great hilarity; the squire, by name
Kershaw, being conspicuous for his loud en-
joyment of the strangers jokes Al 4
IL am very glad that have amused
you" said Mr.. Sydney Smith, at parting,
but you must not laugh at my sermon to-
morrow"
a should hope know the difference be-
tween being here and at church." remarked
that gentleman, with some sharpness.
|" am not SO sure of that" replied the
visitor.
"rll bet you a guinea on it,
: take you" said the divine.
The preacher assembled the steps of the
pulpit apparently suffering from severe
cold, with his handkerchief to his face. and
at once sneezed ont the name Ker.sbav y
in various intonations. This ingenious a.
sumption of the readiness with which a man
would recognize his own name in sounds
imperceptible to the ears of others, proved
accurate.
z The poor gentleman burst into a guffaw,
to the scandal Of the congregation and the
minister, after looking at him with stern re-
proach, proceeded with his discourse and
won the bet. -