Omaha daily bee., 1883-02-16

Ing young widow OF twenty i've, and
had agreed to marry mo g." az she
p~layfully termed him, In q year and q
day from the demise Of "No, l."
The happy day fell on Q Wednesday,
and the ceremony wal to take place at
the brides house. A magnificent wed.
ding.feast was provided, and about
sixty guests invited. The hour fixed
for the marriage was six p. m. In the
forenoon the bridegroom arrayed him
self In his best and went of to invite
q few friends In the country who had
been overlooked. Whether he hap.
pened to take with him q copy Of the
'Plckwi Papers, and came across
Mi. Weller's famous advice to his son
Sam on the subject of "~vidders," will
probably never be known; but by this
or some other means, he appears to
have been reduced to o peculiarly
validating state Of mind with regard
to the important Atep he was about to
take; for by the afternoon post his
bride-elect received from him an Until
mation to the effect that he had con-
scientious scruples al to marrying o
woman, so recently widowed. He
would make 1t q matter of careful ION.
sideration, and abide by the result of
his subsequent feelings. She was
not to take this rs a positive de-
~olinature; but il he had not
arrived by 6 O'Clock, she might oonsid.
or the marriage eff. The widow did
not faint or 20 into Mysteries, but
decked herself In he bridal robes, and
smilingly received the guests who had
been hidden to the feast. When all
the company had arrived, the lady
read to them the communication she
had received from the recreant bride.
groom. Loud and long we're the de.
nunoiations It elected, and the heroic
bearing Of the widow under such try
Ing circumstances was marked and
commended by all. "This need not
prevent the ~feest," she said; and the
banqueting began. The feasting over,
the room was cleared for dancing and
everything went as merrily as If the
wedding had passed off under the
most favored auspices. The result of
1t all was that an elderly bachelor,
who had opened the ball with the IRE
pressible widow, became 30 enamored
of her that before the evening was far
advanced he had proposed, and what
was more, had been accepted. The
minister was recalled, and at IL D. m.
the wedding, though not the n for
which the guests had been assembled, |
was solemnized. The ceremony had
scarcely been performed, when the
door bell wa violently rupg, and in
stalked the superseded bridegroom
Careful consideration" had at length
overcome his "conscientious scru-
PIES" aud he had come back to claim
his brlde-only, however, to be intro
duced to her as the wife of another.
Served him right.
Extremes of many kinds are 30 com.
mon that we need not particularize
them here. Unless on the theory of
the saying that "extremes meet" 1t
Is by no mea easy to account for
some of them. Here Is o somewhat
curious, though far from pleasing
illustration, which was communicated
to us some time ago by a lady who
had Just returned fcom a voyage to
india with her husband In the vessel
of which he was skipper. The cook,
a negro, was o general favorite with
all on board; and In the course Of the
return voyage not only our lady friend,
but all the passengers, and the crew as
well, became deeply interested In
Sambo's matrimonial affairs, for moth.
Ing afforded the honest fellow greater
delight than to talk of the pretty
little English wife who, he said,
vas waiting to welcome him on
his return to England. Some, espec.
tally the ladies, were disposed to be
scepticSl %uspect,ng that ,Sambo was
either ronaancing, or INDUCING In one
of those elaborate %equivoques in which
the negro mind delights. The prece.
dent of Desdsmona and Othelio not
withstanding, the Idea of a nice look
ing English girl actually falling In
love with and marrying Sambo was
not to be accepted without considera-
BILE reserve. In the restricted com
munity on board a v%essel, small mat
terra are often invested with an alto
gether exceptional Importance, and 80
the question of Sambo's wife was
rasgnified into one of the great prob
lens If the day. IL was at length
resolved, In order to crafty
the general suriosity and put
the story to the test, to have
q party Of some sort on board ship as
soon az London was reached, and In
vite Sambo to bring his vile, who, he
declared, resided there. The party
was arranged accordingly. The long
talked of guest of the evening duly
appeared--"And, would you believe
It," the captains wife sfterward re.
marked with great animation-"she
was actually pretty" Sambo was the
hero Of the hour; and everybody de.
clared that q prouder husband, or a
more happy, contented, and devoted
little wife, had never been seen.
The very act of marrying ct all Ia In
some instances a most eccentric pro.
.ceeding. What, for example, could be
more absurd than the recent marriage,
In a small agricultural village in eng
land, of q couple whose united ages
came to l58, the bridegroom being ",
and the bride ST Nor was this the
only peculiar feature of this extrsor.
binary unioh. The bridegroom's
Christian name was Thomas; and the
BRIDES Mary; and that was the third
Mary that Thomas had selected as his
partner, while it wal also the third
Thomas to whom Mary had been
united by the coniugal bond. To crown
au, both were In receipt of parochial
relief to the extent of two shilliDgs and
a loaf each per week.