Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-11-09
HUMORS OF HYMEN.
Amusing Anecdotes Bearing Upon
a Serious Subject.


When the collector OF rare and curl
GUS specimens of insects, and flowers,
and minerals, finds new objects of inter
est, he sticks pin in them, or puts them
in alcohol, 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 va
rious experiences OF life, and thus col
lect 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 we'd
ding he ever had, thought it was very
good time to impress upon the couple be-
fore him the solemnity of the act.
IL hope, Dennis" he said to the
coachman, with his license in his hand,
you have we'll considered this solemn
step in life"
II hope SO, your reverence" answered
Dennis.
It's very important step you're
taking, Mary" said the minister.
Yes, sir, know it is" replied Mary,
whimpering q" Perhaps we had better
wait awhile
Perhaps we had, your riverence,"
chimed in Dennis.
The minister, hardly expecting such a
personal application of his exhortation,
and seeing the five-dollar note vanishing
before his eyes, betook himself to more
cheerful aspect of the situation, and
said:
Yes, OF course it's solemn and i'm
portant, you know, but it's very happy
time after all, when people love each
other. Shall we 60 on with the service?"
Yes, your reverence" they both re-
piled, and they were soon made one 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 clergyman's house
one evening to be married. Everything
went on harmoniously until the woman
came to the word 'obey" in the service.
Here balky scene ensued.
"Never-never." said she. II did not
know that word was in the service, and
| will never say it
"0h, dear" demonstrated her partner
do not make trouble now. Just say
it-say it, even if you don't mean it.
Say it for my sake-for your dear Johns
sake"
"Never-never insisted the high.
spirited dame. II will not say what l
do not mean, and ! do not mean to obey
You must 90 on, sir, she added to the
clergyman, without that word."
THAT is impossible, madam" replied
the minister Il cannot marry you un-
less you promise to love, cherish and
obey your husband" "
Wont you leave us for little while
together2" intereeded the young man.
II think can manage her after awhile. 4"
So the minister went back into his
study, and wrote on his sermon for an
hour and half, and finally, at q quarter
before ten o'clock, there
"--came tapping,
| As Of some one gently rapping,
and the mild.mannered benedict in.
formed the parson that Of last, after
long wrestling of spirit, his dear
Jane consented to say obey" But
how that compromise was brought about
no one ever knew.
have often heard this same clergy
man relate how, after a wedding cere.
mony, which occurred in his own parlor,
the husband whispered to his brapdnew
bride, as they approached the door,
Mary, have you got any small changer
The old Swedes church in Philadel-
phia waa the famous marrying-ground
for nearly two hundred YEARS to all the
neighborhood and the churches in that
vicinity. The record book Of that ven
erable parish is teeming with marriages.
There has to be an extension made
to that department in every new regis
ter. Notes and memoranda udorn the
pages Of the wedding columns ex.
planatory Of the different couples. One
clergyman kept list Of foreign sailors
with wife very probably in every large
port and runaway country girls whom
he had refused to unite in matrimony
because Of his suspicious, or because
of the lateness sf the hour, or of
the absence Of witnesses. Colored
weddings have always richly hu-
morous side. The colored race is
susceptible, initiative one, and when
they are hhs, 10 ~ weddings, they are
generally superRne.
A clergyman was called on upon one
occasion to olliciaIe at colored we'd
ding.
we esspre you, sab, said the gentle
manly darby, rtbat this yere wedding,
sab, is to be very aprOPos quite a Ia
mode, sah.'
Very we'll" )" replied the clergyman,
II will try to do everything In my power
to crafty the wishes Of the parties,
So, after the dinner and dancing and
suppiug was over, the groom's best
! mar" called again on the minister and
lett him c ten dollar fee.
81 hope everything was as your friends
desired IT," said the urbane clergyman.