Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-02-21

premium against matrimony, my child, for
fifteen minutes. You may not be in love
with any body, but most men of taste must
be in love with you"
go, no, they are mott assure you they
are not" she exclaimed with vehement
which made me laugh;
whereupon she colored and cast down her
brown eyes, looking exceedingly lovely y
/ have heard since that she has been en-
gagged three months, and tuat she is to be
led to the altar within foitni ght. She is
a charming young woman-charming means
a great deal with me. She is barely twenty;
has been finely educated has Travelled
abroad is highly accomplished, not bit
spoiled is an only daughter, with five
generations of cultured ancestors, and her
papa is worth at least a million Her
lover is to be envied, isn't he? He is a
dull, commonplace fellow of forty five or
thereabout, with handsome income.
How did he win her any persons
are asking. Perhaps he did not win
her. She may simply have fallen to his
financial lot Her remark to me may have
been confession. But husbands and
wives in our best society are not expected
to he in love with one another. II she is
not fond of him, l pity her. l wonder if
she pities herself? The number of we'd
dings is
AN EVIDENCE OF COMMERCIAL PROS
PERITY;
For marriage and the price of corn are,
according to political economists, related
to one another, as effect and cause. The
matrimonial briskness this month may be
significant. May is usually regarded as
the love month"; June as the connubial
month; but the winter months are apt to
be coniugally neglected, perhaps because
they are cold and dreaTy. and unfit for the
Journeys which the newly espOused are in
the habit OF making. February, how
ever, is named after Februus tine surname
OF Luperculus), the god of fertility, and it
may be that they who are now marrying
wish to invoke his good viii and assistance,
as the Roman women did at the Upper
Gala, by desiring to be struck by the
thongs of the priests, under the impress
sion that the stroke averted steriiity.
Our women may want to be mothers
oftener than they have been. If they do
it is an Indication that the financial future
is more promising, for thoughtful people
are prone to regulate the size of their
families by the material means. As
have said, the frequency Of February mar
riages may be significant.
Ole Bull, whose seventeen birthday
was marked this week by a surprise party
at Cambridge, Mass, has led
AN EyENTFUL LIFE,
And it seems odd that in mis- old age he
should have settled down in that quiet
New England town as the husband of an
American woman young enou Oh to be his
granddaughter Born at Bergen, Norway,
his father, chemist, destined him for the
Church. for which he had no liking and
did ali he could to repress the boys con-
spicuous passion for music. At eighteen he
was sent to the University at Christiania,
where his skill on the violin did not help
him with the Professors, but clogged his
collegiate course. He went wherever he
could hear music, and having taken charge
of the orchestra of one of the theaters
during the leaders illness, his fortune was
decided. He removed to Cassel to
study with Sphor, who was then chapel
master to the Duke, but was so discour-
aged by his reception that he hurried off to
Gottingen to embrace the law. His love
of music returned, however, and he went
to Minden, where he gave a concert with
no little success. Having fought a duel
with brother artist and mortally wounded
his antagonist, he was obliged to fly from
Hanover He arrived in Paris poor, friend
less, unknown, and for months led pre-
carious and miserable life. To crown his
misery, he was robbed of the very little
he had, including his violin, which so dis
tressed him that he leaped INTO the Seine.
He was rescued, and a wealthy woman,
who had Just lost her son, traced IN Ole's
face a resemblance to her boy, became
deeply interested in him, took him to her
house and enabled him to give concert.
The public was delighted his fortune was
made. During the next seven years he
travelled over Europe, and was everywhere
successful. Having become rich at Is, he
married a Partisan, returned to Norway
and settled upon an estate he had bought
near Bergen. At the end of five years
he came here professionally, made
great deal of money, went back to
Europe, gave concerts, campalgned
with General Yusef in Algiers against
the Kabyles; erected a theater at
Bergen and tried to establish national
schools OF literature and art His liberal
sentiments brought him into collision with
the Government. lie nau many CrOuDleS,
including lawsuits, which wasted his
wealth his wife died from the rigors of
the climate and he came here again in his
forty second year. He purchased 100 900
acres of land in Potter county, Pennsylva-
MIA, and number of families to whom
land was sold at nominal price settled on
it and prospered for a while. But Oleand
as it was named after its generous founder,
had dissensions and embarrassments, and
the colony was finally disbanded. He lost
heavily, and to repair his losses resumed
his concerts At the completion of the
Academy of Music here 1854 he leased it,
intending to manage Italian opera. The
enterprise proved disastrous, and he once
more crossed the sea. He now expects to
reside in this country permanently he has
handsome independence, and any number
OF American friends He is a genial, whole
souled, impractical man, in whose heart
seventy winters have not chilled the per-
ennial spring of romance. He is still boy
in his feelings and sympathies, and always
will be. CHAUBERT.