Omaha daily bee., 1874-05-04

AT first-class weddings in Egypt
it is the correct thing to fling hand
fuls of gold coins upon the heads of
visitors. Were this custom in vogue
in this country dexterous guests
might get even for the value of the
wedding gifts in which they may
have been multed.
Breach of promise actions are rare
in France. The law does not admit
compensation for injured feelings,
and to sustain a suit of this kind it
is always necessary to prove special
damages. An attempt to do this
has Just been made before the civil
tribunal of the Seine by a lady call
ing herself Nile. Decaisne. She sued
a gentleman with the curious name
of Marriage, and laid her damages
at 10000 francs, because, on the
faith of the engagement, she had
given up a place of companion to a
person of rank, and had bought a
trosseau. The defense was that NJ.
Marriage, aged forty-five, had not
sought either fortune or beauty, but
he desired youth, and the plaintiff
had deceived him about her age.
She at first represented herself to be
twenty-three, but afterwards owned
totwenty-six. Though disappointed,
he had made up his mind to put up
with this difference ; but he had
found out by the register that she
was in reality thirty-two, and that
was a figure he could not accept.
Amid shouts of laughter, caused by
a humorous speech of NJ. Gatineau
for the recalcitrant Marriage, the
court pronounced a verdict for the
defendant.
The Washington correspondent
of the Chicago Times writes as fol-
lows "Our society" is in a pleas
ant furry over several brilliant
weddings soon to occur, and ladies
are bursting their stays in trepida-
ton lest they may not be among
the elect at the grandest events
those in which demoiselles Grant,
Stewart and Sherman are to be hap
PLY conspicuous. / wish no such
cOntretemps to mar the merriment
at any of these occasions as occurred
at a wedding here the other eve
ming. Just as the bridal party were
ambling meekly up the church aisle,
an eager pair of cOlOred servant
girls, who had run in from a neigh
boring kitchen, pushed directly up
behind the bride and her father.
The shady twain were gaping about
so anxiously for a vacant seat as not
to mind their steps, and presently a
substantial African foot pinned Miss
HauttOn's fleecy trail to the floor.
Half of the skirt ripped from the
amazed waist and the pins of
bridesmaids could not more than
partially adjust the wreck. The
lady was married in a tattered tot
let, and Our marplot lasses of the
dish-pan gazed benignly on the GER
emony, with never a line of regret
uneasiness on their zimmerman
faces.
AT EastbOurne, a town on the
south coast, about twenty miles
Brighton, a lady of immense
wealth using a bath chair for the
ordinary purposes of health has ac-
tually married the drawer Of the
unpoetical equipage. He was a
gentleman in reduced circum-
stances, and in default of a better
occupation had taken to that of
wheeling or drawing bath chairs,
which has at least the advantage of
requiring no previous apprentice
ship, no preliminary competitive
examination, but may be entered
upon at once by any one who has
tOlerably strong arms. His wealthy
.patroness talked to him, made him
drag her to lonely spots, there to
read novels; took an interest in
him, become attached to him, and
made him an offer of mar
which he seems to have had
no hesitation in accepting.