Omaha daily bee., 1874-05-04
MATRIMONIALITIEs.

married he has his hair shingled the
first thing.
The democrat of Mayville, XIV,
announces the marriage of James
Leggett, of Buckskull, TO Sallie
Drinkard, of Bucksnort.
A lady lecturer believes that
women ought to retain their own
names when they get married.
She has retained hers thus far.
The negroes of Kentucky never
weary of well doing. Uncle Bob
Breedlove, aged 20, has been Joined
to Aunt Betsey Phillips, aged IS.
Mr.. and Mrs. GruweIl of San
Jose, Cal, celebrated their fiftieth
marriage anniversary last week.
Mr.. Gruwell was captain of the train
that broke the first trail from Salt
Lake, Utah, to Los Angeles, Cali
fOrnia.
The lady who has been married
eight times, has eight living hus-
bands, and resides with none of
them, and whose daughter, aged
% years, has had three husbands
this lady is the ornament of
Douglas county, Oregon.
It's the same even when YOUR
mother-in-law is royal. Queen Vic
tOria allows the Duke and Duchess
of Edinburgh to board at her house
while the Clarence House is being
white washed; but she makes them
pay in advance every Saturday
night.-MIUdukee Sentinel.
John Breeze, an old farmer of
Rocks county, ILL.,, aged fifty-nine,
elOped with the wife of William
Miller, aged twenty-five. The
young lady was an orphan, and had
lived with the Breeze family from
infancy, and was but recently mar
ried to Miller.
ooh, what do you think, Mr.. Lii
lybrow? The other day 1 was taken
for twenty-five, and L I'M only eigh-
teen ~ "Haw! Wonder what You'll
be taken for when you're twenty
five ?" "FOr better, for worse, l
hope Mr.. Lillybrow looks pen
sive.-Rmch.
Statistics of marriages i'm Ohio
since 1866, show a remarkable de-
cline in matrimony. According to
the published figures of each year
since 1866, it is shown that in that
year there was one marriage to
eighty-twO of population. In 1873
the rate was one marriage to lis of
the population.
Mr.. Henry Stout of Bloomville.
Ohio, eloped with Mis- Worm, and,
not satisfied with his wife, comes
back with his mOther-in-law. That
Stout man was meat for worms
from the beginning. The marriage
feast must have had a taste of the
funeral-baked meats.
Mr.. J. Price, of Owatonna, Miss,
advertised his wife as having left
his bed and board. Mrs. Pride re-
torts through the press that the bed
was only a slab covered by two thin
spreads and an empty straw tick,
and that when she was sick Jim
dosed her with I've bitters made
from ashes, instead of procuring a
Chinese residents of Sacramento,
in order to prevent Celestials from
unto themselves as wives the
chattels Of other Celestials, with the
intent of running them off and
them in some other place,
propose to try and have an agree
ment entered into by the Chinese
providing that when a couple are
married American fashion thattheir
photographs shall be taken and
left with the Chief of Police.
1t was very poetical and senti-
mental for the old man and the
maid to be made one
lnder the shade of a heaven-reach-
ng cottonwood, in natures sane
.uary, and 1t does not in the least
from the romance to know
hat the wedding took place i'm the
crest to escape a serenade of milk
'ans and tin horns which his fine
ar for music wouldn't abide.
A couple recently applied to a
New jersey Justice to be married.
IN catechising the lady the justice
that she had a husband
and had never been divorced
rom him. The young man there
pom declared that the obstacle was {
nsurmountable, and the ceremony
ould not take place. 'tIf that is all
he trouble" said the would-be
ride, "Pn just take my little pistol
nd shoot that nasty husband of
nine on the spot"
A recent wedding in Springfield,
lass, has somewhat of interest be-
ind it, Ringing, as it did, upon a
ame-or more exactly two games .
of dominoes. The parties were !
acillating whether they loved for E
God and all they really couldn't de- ,
lde, but a b~antering wager and a =
anne Of dominoes settled it. If she t
it meant the marriage bell and !
8 accomplishments, while victory
pom his banners'was at once to eX-
nguish the hymeneal torch. OF r
purse she carried her point, but an =
Their game wac in the programme
y which the marriage expenses a
ERE to be paid. Again the domi- 4
oes were brought into requisition, :
his time by the future bridegroom's
and the exRectant brides 1
the result being that the bill n
as to be cancelled by the brother, :
nd now the wedding is over, and 4
bills are all paid-thanks to the J
Dmiuoes. :,