Omaha daily bee., 1888-03-25
CONNUBIALITIES.

The girls who take ad vantage of leap year
are the ones who will want to be known in
the future as Mrs. So-and so and husband
An Ypsilanti man has q queer craze-that
/ of collecting axes. He has ninety-two differ.
ent kinds, and yet his wife complains of a
scarcity Of kindlihg wood.
Mr.. Dawson, of Peru, Ind, began marry
ing in 1882, and he has been marrying at fire.
quent intervals ever since. The other day,
at the age of seventy-six, he took his seventh
wife.
There Is a thrifty woman living at Brian
Creek, N. Y. Not long ago her husband died
and she took the headstOne from his first
wife's grave and had it dressed over and re-
lettered for his grave.
"My errand here tonight" said a young
lawyer TO a damsel on whom he had called
'reminds me of the cry of ar owl" SIN
deed, ~ said the maiden; "what is your err
rand here to-nightl' 'Courtshlp. 10 wit,
to WOO"
trial in Beloit, Wis, the testimony brought
out the fact that Mrs. Munn's parents con.
sented to her marriage only on the condition
that her future husband deed them a forty
acre farm.
81 do not think, madam" " said a husband
when taking his wife 10 task, ''that any man
of tho least sense would approve Of your
conduct" 'Sir," she replied, ''perhaps you
are the best judge of what people with the
least sense would do"
Isaac Ennis, who died in Philadelphia re-
Gently, claimed to be the first man TO enter a
lions cage in this country. The first man to
wake up his wife when he returned home at
2 q. III. in a wobbly condition and found her
asleep has not yet been found.
Albert Frazer, a convict In the Michigan
penitentiary, escaped and a reward was Of
fercd for his capture. He communicated
with his wife who was having a hard strug-
| gle with poverty, and induced her to deliver
him up and get the reward. So she did, and
Frazer Is happier than he has been for years.
Before the wedding day he vows and pro-
tests that his dearest care will be he happi-
ness, and that there is no sacrifice too great
for him TO make TO secure her comfort.
Three months after they are married she has
to tack the blankets TO the side of the bed to
keep him from rolling himself up in all the
clothes.
The plump and pretty pers on who wants to
form a "Widows' trust does not seem TO APP
preciate the gravity of the undertaking.
Widows may be partial TO corners, but ii is safe
10 say when II comes TO a question Of com
bination they will cry with one voice, "No
trust. Experience is a great teacher, and the
widow is a willy bird.
I Henry Schammel, of the packing factory
OF the same name, procured a license To
-marry Bertha Wagner, aged twenty nine, of
63l Greenwich street. Schammel was the
defendant in the long and bitterly contested
divorce suit Of his wife, finally decided In her
favor by a jury. Bertha Wagner is also a di.
yorced woman, who was one of Schammel's
principal witnesses on the trial of the divorce
case.
A school teacher in Buffalo county, Oak,
who made a record for bravery during the
blizzard, fell a victim to his own rashness
one day last week. His wife was one of his
| pupils, and he had occasion TO punish her for
some infraction OF the rules as an example To
the other scholars. Thu next day the school
house had this notice stuck on the door
'School closed for one week owing to the
illness Of the teachor.n
A Belleville mich. } man ''sat into a little
game" the other night, and did not get TO bed
! until after 3 q. IN. After he had slept only a
few minutes, as it seemed TO him, he was
awakened by noises downstairs. Jumping
to the conclusion that there were burglars
down there. he seized q shotgun, and, without
waiting TO cover his bare legs, dashed into
the kitchen TO attack them. If he had waited
10 dress himself the hired girl would not have
screamed so loud or dropped SO much of the
breakfast.
There is now living il Pickens county,
Georgia, a man who. during the rebellion,
donned his wlfe's dress, kept his face closely
shaved, and wore d big sunbonnet, in order
70 avoid being conscripted aud being sent To