Omaha daily bee., 1874-07-20

q current Of girls for
IN Armenian villages y
d at s1O@sO, according to age
I'd quality.
Refusal on the part of q husband
to push the baby-wagon on Sun
days is to be made ground for e.
divorce. .l
According to the Chinese code OF
law regulating m~atrimony, two per-
sons Of the same surname dare not
marry.
The Court journal says that Mr..
and Mrs Sartoris are in Europe
"for their honeymoon" and are
"asked out a good deal to Tyburn.
ian dinners and Belgravian balls"
Lewiston (Me.) clergyman r.
ceived at his silver wedding, the
other day, q pair Of silver vases
from q couple whom he had mar
ried on the day of his own we'd
ding, twenty-five years before.
The Saratoga damsei who broke
! away from her lover and ran for her
hotel told that grieved youth after
wardsin explanation that he sought
to know better than propose mar
rage to a girl on the top OF her six
teenth glass. That was no time for
! romance"
A Brooklyn young woman, who
abandoned her old husband, says:
"He was too soft. I couldn't be
hugcing and kissing him all the
while; it isn't my disposition. 1
couldn't bear to be obliged to sit on
his lap and cuddle him every time
/ wanted a cent"
A young man nineteen years OF
age, q resident of Antelope county,
was married in West Point on the
Fourth of July to a Burt county
lady thirty years of age. The per-
son who married the pair now holds
the young mans 'sprOmise to pay"
for performing the ceremony.
A oountryman with his bride
stopped at q Troy hotel the other
day. At dinner, when the waiter
presented a bill of fare, the young
man enquired, "What's that"
s'That's e bill ot fare" said the
waiter, The countryman took 1t
in his hands, looked lnquiringly At
his wife, and then at the waiter,
and finally dove down into his
pocket and insinuatingly inquired,
"HOw much is it,"
Count Luckner, q Saxon noble,
was to marry, but he changed his
mind. The lady's father wished to
challenge him, but he was sick, 90
he was challenged by the Iady's
uncle, General KOrtzeoue, Russian
Minister at Dresden. They both
fired twice and missed handsomely,
SO the seconds, evidently believing
tins a useless waste of powder put q
stop to it. Result-honor satisfied
and nobody hurt. This is something
like a duel.
There Ia a girl in Georgia who
extorted o confession from her lover
that he wasworth but 500 and some
clothes, and was too poor to marry.
Now this cruel creature looked
searchingly into his face and said
"And is this the reason you have
postponed SO often our marriage ~
ssYes," he replied. "Then said she,
sit shall be so no lOnger-we will
get married." And the poor young
martyr was cut of in the prime OF
youth and single blessedness.
Macoupin county, ILL.,, has its TO
nance, too. A farmers daughter
there, pretty, and only II years of
age, fell desperately in love with a
man nearly 80, and the deluded
damsel was SO persistent In her
wooing that the old gentleman,
though weak and feeble, promised
to marry her. On the morning Of
the appointed day, however, the
h~esitating lover desired to postpone
the ceremony, claiming that he
lacked strength to 60 through with
it. He pleaded in vain. "If you
can stand / will marry you," ex-
claimed the impetuOus beauty, and
she did. ]
She was fifty and q widow. Hea-
ven had given her one good man,
and she was not AYERS to taking |
unto herself another. He came as
a boarder. and though he was a
quarter of q century behind the
widow, he wooed and won. Subse-
quently he induced her to realize on
her little property, and now she is
looking for him. The story is told
at Albany, New York. And until
aged widows tame their blood,
teaching it TO be humble and wait
upon the Judgment, and until young
men cease to covet their neighbours
goods, it will be told again and
again, at Albany and elsewhere.
The miserable selfishness Of some
fellows is enough to make q man
ashamed of his sort. so much as
they do expect when they are Sc
lecting q wife! Fool down in Flor
ida, for instance! He advei tises for
q wife, and he lets the public know
that she must be none Of your
sscommon doings." Imprimis, she
must have a cow ; alsOa good feath-
er, with comfortable linens; like
wise, $500 in good, genuine green.
backs; she must comprehend the
whole art and mystery of tending
children ; smallpox she must have
had, and also measles. Sincerely
we hope this Florida donkey will be
swindled.
An English mechanic advertised
seriously for q wife, and . woman,
equally in earnest, responded by
letter. They met, but the man was
not pleased, and courtship was not
entered into. He still wanted .
wife, however, and 50 advertised
again over another signature.
When he had an answer he went to
see his correspondent with . heart
beating high with hope, and found
the equally perseyering spinster
amin. A third time he W0oed fAto