Richland beacon., 1880-11-06
Seven Times a Widow at Forty.

For the benefit of that ventnreSOme
class of people who. like those possessed
of an irresistible desire to risk their lives
among savage African tribes, would
the sad shipwrecks Of so many of their
friends Neutrality-suspicious. on the
treacherous sea of matrimony-for their
benefit, l repeat. it becomes an lmpera-
tive duty for me to make known un-
ique chance Of connubial bliss which has
lately come to my notice. 1t is OF katha-
rina Chasna. of Verbo, in Upper Hun
gary. that | speak, and let him that
would secure prize in the marriage
market hasten to the land of pomade and
paprika, and without Il moments delay
make her his own. For time is pressing:
she has often been snapped up, and Will
mall probability be very soon snappedup
again. \ wife who thoroughly under.
stands her social duties, and who is per
feet III her PAGES, is, take 1t, universally
acknowledge To be desideratum =
and if the lady | have now the honor to
introduce to public notice does not full
fill this condition, then nobody ever will.
For, Ike her sister i'll holy writ, she has
had seven husbands. and the last one has
just died. Here. however, the simile
comes to an end; for, instead of the
seyenfold widow following her masters,
kathlrina Chasna is as sound as a bell,
and If what is generally said he true
has but one anxiety i'll life, and that is
to get married-" sobald ais moglich !"
Our hcroinc-surely she must he hero
ine-first married at II. She began her
crusade against the opposite sex modest
H. enough. for she selected a shoemaker,
who, however, succumbed to cOnsump-
ton ut the cndof fifteen months. He hard
~ lasted Us long as one of his own pairs OF
shoes-best quality. Number two was
much-tougher customer. He entered
the list at the ripe age of 81, held out ID
years, and died fortnight after his
Tooth birthday. How long he would
have lasted under favorable conditions is
an interesting bu5 now bootless specu-
latiOn. This affair SO preyed on kath-
arinas mind that she was fain to marry
within one month for consolation, and
this time it was wldower, who, how
ever, came to watery grave, for he died
of dropsy after four years of bliss. All
this ill luck was beginning to tell on
katharina's spirits, and she determined
now to invest in something " warranted
TO last" She lent modest ear to the
burning tale of stalwart farmer of %,
but alas he sgScumbed to an "acci-
dent" almost | ore the expiration of
the honeymoon whether he committed
suicide is not clear. will spare YOU
the next three husbands, the last of
whom died te ,fSi'1l nesday. Suffice it
a tnat n"st i%ts pursue 9nu either them nall all
the "great Unknown" If Katharine
does not marry aPe;r soon it will be her
own fault, .w,as,rip.1 suitors are after
her. ALTA, father tween 40 and 40, she
did figuia'y' WI ..nnndant black hair, and
does not lmor . day over So. But, alb,
well a-day :she has cast her flashing eyes
on a youth of 81, who is himself over
head and ears in love with someone else.
| The Mayor of neighboring town, IA rich
widower of Y, is said to have become
| quite childish on the subject of Kath-
arina, and humbly mumbles his snit.
She will doubtless take him out of
"rique. - Vienna Cor. LOndOn GLOBE.