American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-11-13
Wedding Anecdotes.

When the collector of rare and curious
specimens of insects and flowers and
| minerals finds new objects of interest he
sticks a pin in them, or puts them in al
cohol, or labels them, and then sits down
| to count his collections and see what he
has actually gathered. In the same way
| we may stick pins in the various expert.
ences of life, and thus collect a museum
of rare specimens. The present collection
of wedding anecdotes are specimens OF
eccentricities at this trying hour that have
come across the writer's path. We see
| plenty of curious epitaphs in cemeteries
| let us look at some wedding scenes as
strange as any of these.
| A young clergyman, at the first wedding
he ever had, thought it was a very good
time to impress upon the couple before
him the solemnity of the act.
| hope, Dennis" he said to the coach
man, with his license in his hand, 'you
have well considered this solemn step in
| life.'
az hope SO, your riveren CO." answered
Dennis.
"It's a very important step you're tax
| ing, Mary" said the minister.
Yes, sir, 1 know it is" replied Mary
whimpering. Perhaps we had better
waita WHILE"
Perhaps we had, your reverence, y
The minister, hardly expecting such a
personal application of his exhortation,
and seeing the five-dollar note vanishing
before his eyes, betook himself to a more
| cheerful aspect of the situation, and said
T." Yes. of course it's solemn and impor-
tant, you know, but it's very happy
time, after all, when people love each
other. Shall we go on with the service!''
Yes, your riverence," they both re-
p1io6 and fhav xUora soon ,,ada nno in the
bonds of matrimony, and that young
minister is now very careful how he brings
on the solemn view of marriage TO timid
couples.
A party came to a clergyman's house
one evening to be married. Everything
went on tremendously until the woman
came to the word obey" in the service.
Here a. balky scene ensued.
"Never-neverp' she said. did not
know that word was in the service, and 1
will never say itp'
"Oh, dear, - demonstrated her partner,
do not make trouble now. Just sag it
say it even if you don't mean it. Say it
for my sake-for your dear Johns saker'
"Never-never!'' insisted the high-spir-
tied dame. &c will not say what do not
mean, and do not mean to obey. You
man, without that word''
That is impossible, madam replied
the minister. d" I cannot marry you un-
less you promise to love, cherish and
obey your husband
"Won't you leave us for little while
together" interceded the young man.
81 think l can manage her after
awhile.''
So the minister went back into his study
and wrote on his sermon for an hour and
half, and finally, at quarter past ten
O'Clock there
came tapping
As of some one gently rapping,
and the mild hammered benedict informed
the parson that at last, after long wrest-
ling of spirit, his ''dear jane had con-
scented to say "obey." But how that
compromise was brought about no one
ever knew.
have often heard this same clergyman
relate how, after a wedding ceremony on
one occasion which occurred in his own
parlor, the husband whispered to the
brand new bride as they approached the
door: " Mary, have you got any small
changer
The old Swedes' Church in Philadelphia
was the famous marrying ground for near
ly 200 years to all the neighborhood and
the churches in that vicinity. The rec
ord book of that venerable parish is teem-
ing with marriages. There has to be an
extension" made to that department in
every new register. Notes and memoran-
da adorn the pages of the wedding col
umns" explanatory of the different
| couples. One clergyman kept list of
foreign sailors with a wife very probably
n every large port and runaway country
girls whom he had refused to unite in