Omaha daily bee., 1888-04-01
CONNUBIALITIES.
My darling George" it used to be
When welded life was new,
His title now is chimp and Chez

His title now is 'him'' and ''he,n
And sometimes Say, there, you"
A maiden of uncertain age, whose home is
in Niles, Mich, is said to have proposed TO
thirteen young men since leap year began.
Probably Mrs. Frank Leslie is the only
American lady who is compelled to use a
printed form i'll declining matrimonial mat
ters.
Mr.. Wilson, OF Pittsburg, courted a young
lady of that city for thirteen years, and now
he has been sued for 10000 for breach of
promise. Thirteen is an unlucky number.
Lieutenant A. H. Howard, of gattling gun
fame during the Riel rebellion, has applied
for II divorce from his wife, basing the appli-
cation upon allegations concerning her con-
duct while he was absent IN Canada.
A novel marriage occurred at Chipley,
Ga, on the night of the Sd. John Wright
and Laura Satterwhite were united in mar
riage at 1890 o'clock at night under the light
of the street lamp between the hotel and the
depot, ii. a. Goodman officiating.
Glenwood, Col, valley needs now a car
load of girls. Good, neat, industrious, but
not too handsome. If a car load of reasona-
bly, good-looklng ones come we will have to
get another car load about the middle Of
April, for the reason that by that time they
will probably all be married.
A French bachelor advertised for a wife.
A typographical error changed his age from
thirty-seYen TO eighty-seven, but it made no
difference, for he received 250 applications
from ldulcS ranging from SlNJecn 10 Sixty,
and all promising love and devotion to the
rest of his existence,
Miss Smiley Presley was recently mar
ried TO James Spittle, of Mathews, n. G.
The bride is not quite twelve years old, and
her mother consented to the marriage only
on condition that the bridegroom must con
tinue TO send her to school. OF course he
agreed to this, and the child became a
wife.
Nothing daunted by the wretched condi-
ton Of the roads and the extreme severity OF
the weather, a young lady of Montgomery
county, Virginia, rode from her home TO the
town of Salem on horseback one day last
week, a distance of twenty-one miles, TO
make some purchases of store goods for her
approaching wedding, and returned home
the same day, making forty-two miles of
travel on horseback. The plucky girl was
Miss Emma Aiken, and she was married
three or four days after to Robert Stewart,
who lives near Ronoake, the Rev. ID. G.
Norman performing the ceremony.
A novel wedding took place on an east
bound accommodation train on the Baltimore
~ ONO railroad as the train was coming
down the seyenteen-mile grade at a rapid
rate. As it stopped at Swanto a gentleman
and lady boarded the train, AT the next sta
ton a preacher stepped on and inquired Of
the conductor If a couple had boarded his
train at SwantOn. When informed they had,
he rushed to where the couple were seated,
and, in the presence of all the passengers,
pronounced them man and wife while the
train was going at her best speed. The
couple were strangers TO all on board. The
only reason given by the preacher for the
haste was that the license was made out in
Maryland, and at the rate the train was go
ing they would soon be in West Virginia and
the license void. The bride and groom got
of at Piedmont and took the express for the
west.
A young man and his best girl were before
the clerk Of courts of Orange City Tuesday
and obtained a license TO wed, who have