Omaha daily bee., 1888-05-27
CONNUBlALITIES

CONNUBlALITIES.
A record of BAL divorce cases in one day
entities Boston to a smile of recognition from
Chicago.
The president and Mrs. Cleveland cele
brate the second anniversary of their mar
riage on June 2.
An exchange speaks of a southern girl
who elored with her lover on a mule dressed
in boys clothes"
may explain the reason why English officers
consider India such a dangerous station to be
assigned to.
Two years Imprisonment is all tina an
Ohio man got for marrying ten wives. The
jury took into account that five of them were
red-headed.
One of the games at social parties in Penn
sylvania is kissing through a knot hole. 1t is
not wholly satisfactory any more than court
ing by telephone.
A lady who died at Marseilles requested
that her heart might be placed in the tomb
of her second husband, but her body in her
first husbands tomb in America.
Mrs. L.. L. Sherman (white), of Great
Falls, Mont, secured a divorce from her hus-
band, Morgan Sherman (colored), the other
day and Immediately after married her law
yer.
A Maryland widow named Halletts set a
bear-trap at her smoke house door, and the
first catch was a man who was counting her.
He had packed up 100 pounds of bacon to
carry of.
There appears to be very little doubt in
New York about the duke of Marlborough
having set his heart upon marrying the beau
tiful Widow Hammersley who has a little dot
of s., 900, 600.
1t is said that in all London there are but
six really happy couples. The only strange
thing about this statement is the ~extrava-
gantly optimistic view the statistIcian takes
of the situation.
The latest "victim of tobacco' is a sad
case, indeed. He Is seventy years old, has
smoked for sixty years, and last week he
married a woman four years his senior. To-
bacco smoking affected his brain.
Another marriage of aged ones is to be
added to the rapidly growing list of such
events. This last couple hail from Atchison,
Kan. The groom is almost a no~nogenarian,
and the bride is in her sixtietn year.
In Harrisburg, Pa, whenever a young
man belonging to a club gets married to one
older than himself he is made the recipient
of a gold watch. All the young men of late
have awaited themselves of the opportunity.
Maggie Hughey, a Pittsburg woman of
forty, was married Friday to her third hus-
band, just five hours after her lamented No.
had joined the silent maiority-an unusual
intermingling of crepe and orange blossoms.
Miss Alice Pollock, daughter of a Pitts
burg millionaire, ran away from the Boston
Conservatory of Music and was married to
Frank A. Roake, a young clerk with
the brain of a dude and ffty-two pairs of
trousers.
There are queer people in this world. A
young woman in Mahaney City refused TO
marry her lover, but when he had proved his
devotion by blowing up her house with dyna-
mite she wanted to marry him TO keep him
out of jail.
Ishmael Weaver, a colored man who died
recently at GAINESVILLE, Ga, was the father
of seventy-two children, of whom tifty-two
sons were able-bodied farm hands when he
died. AT least this is the tough story told by
the local paper.
A sensitive man out west, according to a
newspaper paragraph, is trying to get a di-
yorce from his wife on the ground that she
did not manifest sympathy for him and APP
pear in his behalf" during his recent trial
on n charge of murder.
The maddest woman south of the line is
that Georgia she who sat up till / o'clock
awaiting her husbands return from ''the
LODGE" and upon going upstairs found the
supposed culprit safe in bed, where he had
been snoring away during her hours of
vigil.
A California ex-governor has married his
housekeeper and surprised all his friends.
The governor is to be congratulated. Many
a man who thought he was marrying a
housekeeper has merely surprised himself,
discovering his mistake when il was too late.
'John," said the wife tenderly, ''promise
me that if l should be taken away you will
never marry Nancy Tarbox." "Certainly,
Maria" replied the husband reassuringly, 81
can promise you that. She refused me three
times when was a much handsomer man
than | am now"
A West Virginian has just made a match
betwiXt a rich widower of seventy and a ma
ture maiden of forty by the singular expe-
dient of not allowing them to see or speak to
each other till they did so at the altar,
though they correspondent freely for the
space of three years.
p. i. Sperry was married TO Miss Kittie
Downs, of Woodbridge, Conn, recently, and
the remarkable thing about it is that Mr..
Sperry is the. forty-fifth member of the
Woodbridge church choir to be married since
the present leader, @. Il. Walker, assumed
control. Whether Mr., Walker is to be blamed
is a question.
One of the colored applicants for a marriage
| license was unfortunate enough 10 forget the
name Of the girl that he was going to marry,
and he had to tramp back six miles into the
country TO find out what it was. Upon being
| questioned as to how he called her, he an
swered "Gallie," and he couldn't tell any
more. 'Dat's all | know" he said.