Omaha daily bee., 1874-05-11
MATRIM0NIALITIEs.

ing last month. The score stood SO
hearts that beat as Is.
A Georgia bridegroom who did
not appear In time for his wedding,
was found asleep with fifteen cents
in his pocket, waiting for the infa-
ton Of the currency.
A Nevada married woman of fifty
recently eloped with a boy of fifteen.
If Nevada has nc laws to protect
the trundle-bed trash of the State
we would advise all parents there
to sell out and leave.-COurier
Journal.
When Mrs. Jefferson lay on her
death-bed she said that she could
not die content if she thought her
children would ever have a step
mother; and her husband, holding
her hand, solemnly promised that
he would never marry again.
The archbishops and bishops of
Lombardy, Italy, have addressed a
protest to King Victor Emanuel,
against the introduction of a law
which makes it absolutely necessary
to celebrate the civil before the re-
ligious rite of matrimony.
Over in Iowa, where q young
couple were made one flesh by one
flash, they rather liked. being struck
by lightning i'm that way. "Use
Dispatch" they said to the minister,
and he married them by telegraph.
Uncle Bob Breedlove, aged sew
enty, was married to Aunt Betsy
Phillips, aged siXty-five, i'm Ken>
lucky, the other day. Though
their epiderr,is is under the cloud
produced by long centuries of too
ardent African sunshine, yet their
love Is as white and pure as that of
two young doves In the back yard.
The Norristown Herald says: A
loving wife i'm. Bridgeport wants a
divorce. She recently found pieces
of ostrich plume in her husbands
beard of an entirely different shade
from that of her own hat. He ex-
planned that bits of ostrich feather
sprinkled on the beard is the very
latest style In New York, and it is
not his fault that the shade Is differ
ent from her own.
A divorce was recently granted
to a wife i'm a neighboring State for
the cause that her husband ate,
drank, and slept, as usual under the
same roof with her for six weeks
without once speaking to her all
that time. The fellow was glad to
get off, as he stated to the Judge
after the case was disposed of, that
he hadn't a chance during the
whole six weeks to get a word in
edgewise.
They have a novel style of doing
it in New York, now. A fellow
goes into a church fair, buys a SO
basket of flowers, hands the maiden
$50 bill, and remarks: of you
don't give me the exact change,
I'll marry YOU" The blushing
maid, considerably confused, hands
back $50. He grunts, III thought
So" and they marry the next week.
Dapper heard of this a week ago,
and has ever since been striving
frantically to borrow a $50 bill in
order to try it.
The wedding of Miss Grant and
MI. Sartoris is to he a real Ameri-
can wedding, with groomsmen as
well a. bridesmaids. The cere-
mony will take place i'm the East
Room in the evening and the young
couple will leave the same evening
for New York, to sail for Europe.
Rumor gives the names of six of
the bridesmaids. 1 believe there
are TO be eight. Miss Barnes, Miss
Fish, Miss Beale, and Miss Lowery,
of Washington, and Miss Borie and
Miss Drexel, of Philadelphia, are
those named.
The Episcopal Church i'm Delta,
Michigan, vas lively with hand
somely-dressed women going in,
with organ music coming out, and
with all the signs of a wedding.
Mrs. Saunders, of Detroit, who was
on a sort of flying trip through the
State i'm search of her missing hus-
band, noticed the hymeneal symp-
toms and entered. There she saw in
the bridegroom Mr.. Saunders, her
husband. She did not scream, nor
weep, nor disturb the ceremony in
any way; but the next day she sued
for a divorce, and Mr.. Saunders
went off on his honeymoon tour I'M
molested.
Men who behave with the utmost
bravery in danger are, nevertheless,
horribly nervous when it befalls
them to play a prominent part i'm
any of the gala shows of life. and
at the last moment they find them
selves overwhelmed at the prospect
of all the form and ceremony which
they will have to go through on the
day. Not one man i'm a
wakes on his wedding
morning without a feeling of weight |
on hismind similar in kind, though,
ordinarily we NAV hope. less in de-
gree, to that which he would ex-
perience were he going to be hung.
BY almost every man the show part
of the ceremony is, to say the least,
voted a most dreadful bore, while to
the nervous and retiring the pro-
cess of being trotted out, arrayed In
an unusual dress for that hour of the
day, amid the scrutinizing gaze Of
hundreds of critical eyes, while the
catches here and there the
little "quips and pranks" in which
the facetious delight to INDUCED at
such times, Is simyly agonIzing. It
a fact that under such circum-
stances men have actually been
known to faint-or bolt.