The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-06-29

ton as marriage, observes Voltaire.
Who was an old bachelor, he adds
II believe that marriage is few weeks
more ancient: that is to say, one
qusrrels with his wife at the end CT
fifteen daye; one beats I er at the end
CT month, and one separates from
her alter six weeks of cohabitation.
In France,
CHRISTIANS WILL BE INDEBTED TO
A JEW.
NJ. Magnet, for carrying the repeal oil
the divorce law; this ought to soften
the heart even of the Editor OF TIE
anti-Se netic journal. which weekly
denounces Rothschild similar and
mighty men OF Israel.
The Senate has, By an oyerWhelm
ing majority, voted the principle of
divorce. It only remains now to
word the clauses, to define the con-
ditions OF relief Married people will
now have a chance of e-marrying
according to their hkings, for no act
OF Parliament was ever yet framed.
but was loose enough to allow q
coach and six 10 gsllop through. The
French ideas about divorce oscillste
between the dictum of Milton: III is
not God who bias prohibited divorce
but the priest" and of La Harpe.
divorce ought to be accorded for
incompatibillty OF humor; and he
carried that principle into law, the
29th Of March, 1898. In ancient
Rome, under the republic. divorce
became more frequent with the de-
cadence Of manners. But Caesa
Octavius, Antony, and others, con-
tracted marriage even three, four,
and five times. Indeed, matters
we're 60 bad in Rome, that it was con-
eidered an honor during her life time
for a woman to have but one hus-
band. A model ep taph on the grave
OF Roman metr0n get forth, her life
Wss ''pious and exemplary, and that
she had only one husband" Juyenal
tells Us how a lady could change her
husband eight times in five years;
and ST. jerome relates. the spectacle
could be witnessed at Rome OF a
woman who died,
HAVING HAD 90 HUSBANDS.
The good Father might have added,
her last bridegroom was man who
had been divorced 81 times; the state
paid the expenses OF this curious
marriage, and when the woman died
she was decreed a public funeral.
The conquest Of Gaul by the
Romans, introduced the institution of
divorce. Basine quilted the King OF
Thuringa. for Chilperic, who married
her. A Chilperic, King OF Scissors,
divorced bis wife. Andovere, because
she go far TO got court etiquette as to
present herself and baby a. the baps
tismal font to be christened. And
Charlemagne divorced his wife, Theo
dore. because she was not Christian.
In Russia, when a husband and wife
cannot get on together, they take a
napkin, each holding an end, and
having broken cake in too, proceed
to a CROSSROADS, and there in presence
of some people, tear the napkin to
tatters, till the smallest morsel re.
mains in the fingers, incapable of
further subdivision. IF after this
mutual tearing process they are not
reconciled each takes a different
road, and the tribunal pronounces
the divorce.
a married couple named Pousceau,
Protestant, once.at Rochelle. divorced
themselves, and remarked. The
governor sent for them, put them in
/ the stocks for a few hours; two mems
hats were placed over the wife's bead
and a dista1 over the husbands.
Liberated, they went home and lived
happy ever afterwards. In 1896, the
working OF La Harpe's law was such
| that the divorces were on par with
the marriages. Deputy Regnant
complained before the council of Ave
| hundred, that it was abominable
man could change his wife. Ike his
coat, and a wife her husband, like
her bonnet. The law was made more
stringent; bat it played Old Harry
| with the right OF succession to
property.
Thus, a young couple having
arranged a divorce. the husband
married his ex.wiie's grand aunt,
aged 50, and by the marriage settle
naent, thus secured her fortune: The
old lady soon died, tagged brides gen.
orally do) and after few months.
the widoWer re-marred his divorced
wife. The Swiss had
AN ANCIENT CUSTOM
| to bar out divorces. When a couple
decided on divorce, they were lock-
ed up in a .oom together; the only
furniture allowed was one chair, q
table and bed. The tete-a.tete was
limited to eight days. At its expira.
ton. they were reconciled. Cynical
people observed the efficacy OF tho
plan consisted, in q husband prefer
ring to brave all, rather than to be 80
locked up with his wife for even Q
day. Imagine Socrates and Xantippe
thus imprisoned, and the philosopher
j Caudle lecIured into reformation.