The Nevada picayune., 1885-04-23
QUEER FREAKS OF CUPID.
Hl-AsSOrtcd Marriages that Manifest Themselves in the Divorce Courts.

Cleveland Leader.
 "Oh yes," said an attorney to whom reporter applied for any in formation he might possess on the subject of whimsical marriages, "l know ofa case in this city where two uncles and their nephew mar ried three sisters. Thus the neph- ew's wife wife became the nice of her sisters and her husband be- came the brother-in-law of his un- cles. His first boy became the grand nephew of his aunts, his mothers sisters, and his cousins were necessarily his aunts and an- clcs."
 Thus encouraging tue reporter with a mission looked about for more whimsical marriages and learned of haX dozen in as many hours. A prominent sewing ma chine msa who formerly lived in this city married a widow who had a young daughter. When the lat ter had grown up t0 wOmanhood the sewing machine man obtained n divorce from his wife and married her daughter, making his fsFmer wife his mother.in.law. The three were often seen riding out together in the ssme carriage. It is but a few years since certain we'll known historian and poet, after the death of his wife, married her daughter by previoas marriage, much to tire disgust of his son,who found that his sister had suddenly grown into his mother.
 But the qneerest case of all is that of n widower and his son who m.rried a widow and her daughter the son marrying the mother and the father the daughter. When the ~idower married the dau ghter he became father-in law to the widow, who WAS his daughter-in-law; or, in other words, was father.in.law to his mOther-in-law. His wife be came the stepmcther of his soh.in- law, who was in fact her halt bro ther, being a full son efher father, her husband. When the son mar. ried the widow he became the fa- thcr -in-law of hts own father, be- cause his wife was his fathers wife's mother. By his marriage the son became the stepfather oi his stcpmother, who was his step daughter. The widow is not only the mother of her daughter, but also the daughter-in- law, and heI daughter become her mother in law? The widow is likewise the daughter-in law of her husbands father, who. It will be remembered is her son.in-law, by reason of be- ing her daughters husband. By marrying the widow, the son be- came the son-in-law of his mother, the wife of his father. The son be- comes the father of his father wife his halt-sister his own daughter she is the daughter of has own wife The old gentlemaa,by his marriage with the daughter, became hi' sons wife's son-iH-law, that lad, likewise being his daughter-in-law although being his wife's mother The fathers wife. as stepmothcr to his children, is therefore step mother to her mother and stepta- ther, the latter being the son of he 1 husband. 1.-the union of the sol and the widow be blessed with ; girl babe, the little one would or dinarily be the old gentleman grandchild. In this instance, how ever-the old man being son.in.lav to the son he,in addition to beip; it's grand fatker, is half brsther t the infant and the child is half sis ter to it's grandmother. In cas- the daughter, who marxied the wid over, should have boy, he woul' [ at once becsnA his grandmother half brother and her brother in law at the same time.