The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-09-05

bright, fair young girls sacrifice all
their youth and beauty and buoyancy
OF spirits, pass voluntarily within the
pale foa blighted womanhood.
Getting Married in England.
A London letter to the Hartford
Times says: Getting married being so
much more pleasant an operation than
being either born or buried, I have re-
served my notes on this subject for a
climax. To begin with, I think it
would be safe to say that no woman
was eve welded in England, or would
ever think of being, without a ring.
This emblem on the third finger of the
left hand is the universal badge of the
connubial state, and the absence of it
the universal sign of single blessed
ness. A lady who has been twice mar
RED will usually wear both wedding
rings. Married American ladies' who
come over here minus this outward
mark of their relation. are often looked
upon by English matrons with sus-
picion.
Another remarkable thing about
English marriages is that they are
nearly all celebrated in some place
OF worship and nearly all, too, be-
fore IL o'clock of the day. To getmar-
ried at n hour, and in any other
place than in a church or chapel, or at
the registers office, a special. license,
costing $50, must he procured. An
ordinary license, which confers only the
privilege of getting married without a
previous publication of the "banns."
costs S25. AS a matter of course this
expensive method of getting spliced is
luxury left to the enjoyment of the rich
and few, the many going through the
ordinary process of having the banns
announced. This is done by the clergy
man who declares, in making his notices
ut the morning service, that so and SO,
and so and so are about to become hus-
band and wife, winding up by calling
upon anyone who may know ofanylaw-
full impediment+o the union to declare
the same or forever thereafter hold his
peace.
The banns must be published thus on
three successive Sundays. Then the
wedding a take place. In the case of
dissenters who purpose being married
i'll their chapel, the names, ages, resi-
dence, occupations, ETC., of the parties
must be exhibited for three weeks at
the office of the register for the district
and to make the chapel marriage valid
the register must be present at the GER
emory. Considering that nothing of
the kind is required at church weddings.
this is great injustice to dissenters, and
doubtless it will soon be done away
with. The register is competent to tle
the knot himself, and is the only per
son, outside of the ministry, who enjoys
this privilege.
In wishing the couple good luck, the
old custom still prevails of throwing a
slipper or old shoe after them when on
the way to the chur sh-this, however,
being varied in some places by strewing
rice before them. TIL nothing unusual
for protests to be made when the banns
are published. The objection is made
public, and the clergyman hears the
or cause in the vestry at the
close ofthe service. Most frequently it
the parents who object, but OCCASION
ally cases of a different kind occur.
At a church near Manchester, a few
Sundays ago, the banns of marriage
were being published for the third
time of asking" When a gentlemen
arose in a conspicuous part of the con-
gregation and said, according to the
usual form, II forbid the banns." Sub
sequently it TRANSFERRED that the mar
who had been asked" was eighty-two
years of age. The woman, who was
forty-five, had recently nursed him
an illness, and had ordered the
publication of the banns without his
consent, her object in thus attempting
to force him into matrimony being to
get possession Of the old gentleman's
property. The wedding I need scarce
" add, did not come off.
A contributor to Longman's Maya
zine is disposed to the opinion that old
of long-distance shooting with
bow and arrow were told by persons
who drew a long bow in their own I'M
He writes: Nowadays I
imagine that 400 yards is beyond the
power of man to compass. I have but
seldom tried my hand at flight-shooting,
out with light fight-arrows and a bow
sixty.two pounds / shot 2S6
Yards last April. The air was nearly
,alm, and there was but three or four
Yards difference in shooting up and
Town. With q little practice I fancy
hat I could reach 800 yards. There
ire strong men who can pull a bow Of
pounds OF seventy-fve. With
such a weapon they could probably
reach $50 yards and possibly more.
But when it is measured out 286 yards
seems q long way to send SO slight q
hing as a fight-arrow, and those who
IAN follow the shaft in its flight through
he heavens till it finally reaches the
Earth have good oversight"
To FRY EGa PLANr.-Cnt in slices
lalt an inch thick, pare each carefully,
ind lay for an hour in salt and water;
hen make q batter OF two eggs, half q
Of milk and fou. enough to make q
hin batter. Pepper and salt each piece
slightly in hot lard; drain and
,erve hot. a. L. ].