Omaha daily bee., 1885-08-15
CoNNUBIAuITIES.
'Tis sweet to knock at your sweetheart't
door,
When the bees have ceas.d their drum

When the bees have ceas.d their drum
ming,
And hear the bull. d growl response:
"Yes, old boy, I'm coming!"
Hungary has an insurance company which
pays married mon 100 to 500 in the o vent of
the elopement of their spouses.
A Chicago young woman broke her engage.
ment with her young man because she found
out that he habitually called trousers pants, u
A widow of Harrisburg, Pa, has twice
eloped with coachmen, sn1 there is great Gu
riosity to learn who will be the next victim.
| - Howell Citizen.
A correspondent, who witnessed a marriage
CEREMONY performed by the Cheyenne In
dlsns, says that the bride was dressed in six.
inch grin and three streaks of red paint.
George w. kpehue, q we'll known Indian
apolis man, clipped with his divorced wife, be-.
ing married in the carriage with the bovses go
ing at full gallop to catch train He mar.
ried two and o half years ago Lily Emma
Rogers, the beautiful daughter of a widow,
who is wealthy, but who runs q market coffee
stand.
Mrs. frankie Morris. the woman convicted
at Usage Mission, Kas, of numbering her
mother to obtain $4,000 insurance on her
lif was on Monday last married to H. ID.
Loveland, the man TO whom she testified up
on her trial that she was engaged to bs mar
ried on the 25th of July, buf was prevented by
being in custody. The bride occupies a plain.
ly furnished cell.
When a couple are engaged in Russia a
betrothsl feast is held, and the bride-elect
has o lock of hair cut off 10 the presence of
| witnesses and given to the bridegroom, who,
in return, presents a silver ring set with tur-
quoise, an almond cake, and q gift of bread
and salt. Among poor people who cannot
afford silver and turquoise, tin and a bit OF
bluestone are used.
A patriarchal couple named Ledger, who
| have done much to make up for shortcomings
of many of their countrymen and women in
repopulating France are now living at Rozoy-
Belval in the Aisne. They have twenty.
seven children, of whom twenty-five are living
and three are SERVING in the army of the Ton.
quin. The father and mother, aga respect.
lively 70 and 6S, cultivate o farm aided by six
other SONS. OF their twenty-seven children
twenty-one were boys.
A Sommerville Mass bride and groom,
ambitious to be taken for an old married coup,
le, borrowed a3-year-old boy to accompany
them on their bridal tour, hut he brought
them only shame and humiliation. He con-
~tinually addressed the groom as Mr., Brown
and the bride as Miss Jones, and one impert-
inent hotelkeeper held them in custody until
he could telegraph to Somerville to learn their
antecedents and relationship.
In Alabama, the other day, the Rev. A, j.
Waldrop, aged siXty-eight, Was married to
Mira. S%almonds, five years his junior. They
had been parted by their parents when young,
and after nearly half q century they met
again, still loved aud loving, but opposed by
their children. Very quietly the old folks re-
sumed thsir courtship, as quietly as they were
married, and thsy have gone away to speed
their honeymoon where no one can interfere
with their welded bliss. All happiness to the
hearts that never grow old and the love that
knows no death.
The marriage of the Crown Prince of Ea-
den with Princess Hilda of Nassau has been
finally announced for September 20 Prin-
cess Hilda's father was dispossessed of his
state by Prussia il 1866. He has since re-
fused to meet members of the Henenzollern
family. Toe Grand Duke of Baden tried to
bring about a reconciliation, but failed. The
Grand Duke of Nassau insists on living like
o hermit, and it is a curious circumstance
that no member of the Baden family. not
even his future son-in-law, has ever met him
The imperial family intrigued to break off
the marriage, but they found an e~ffectual OBJ.
stacle in the fact that it was a love match en-
the psrt of the Crown Prince. No member
OF the German court will be present at the
wedding.
A case of elopement is reported in Augusta.
IL seems that for some time q young man stop
ping at one of the boarding houses at one end
OF the city, has been very much infatuated
with a charming young mill hand. The first
of last week he persuaded her that neither
could ba happy without the other, and they
decided to fly to some other cline, there to
plight their troth, The plans were made and
ON Tuesday night the young man proceeded
to the residence of his adored one, and there
waited until she swung out of the window on
o bed cord, when they made tracks for the
railroad station, and were soon on their way
TO Boston, rejoicing, They evidently arrived
at their defamation all right, as on Thursday
the girls mother received a letter from Bos.
ton stating that they wers married the day