Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-02-20
A HINpoo WEppiNG.
An Event Interesting Not Only as a Ger
mOny, But as a Spectacle.

An Event Interesting Not Only as a Cere-
mOny, But as a Spectacle.
A correspondent of the Scotsman, writ
ing from Bombay, describes a Hindoo we'd
DING at which he was present as being in
teresting not only as ceremony, but as a
spectacle. The branches of the trees in the
garden were outlined with little lamps, and
large pond in front of the house was hung
round very high up with flags, between
which more lamps were suspended.
From the balcony of the house I saw the
bridegroom arrive on a led horse, accom-
panied by many friends. He was dressed
in cloth of gold, and wore splendid hat.
and his richly caparisoned horse had
wreaths OF yellow flowers placed at equal
short distances across its back and hang
ing down to the ground
he dismounted at the entrance, where his
little bride met him, and threw rice oveF her
own and his head, as a symbol that she
would care for the wants of the household
They went together into the house, where
the wedding guests were assembled. and
sat down on two red cushions facing each
other A white cloth was held up in front
OF his face, and she covered her face with
her sarl, while cord of yellow and white
Worsted was put up around their necks,
joining them together
around his neck, and held up close to her.
and under this they joined hands On leav
ing the house, bouquet on which altar of
roses mad been poured, was presented to
every guest, and wreaths of flowers were
hung round our necks by our hosts.
A pot OF red paint seems to have been one
OF the properties" necessary at the wed.
ding, and the veneration in which the red
paint was held was exemplihed by fact
narrated by the correspondent When tel
egraph posts were first set up in some re-
mote parts OF India, the gentle Hindoo was
won't TO cut the same down for firewood.
'onng engineer, who had studied the abo-
rlSlnai character, painted the posts red,
"nereupon the natives worshiped the posts,
and ceased to carry them away as burnt
offerings.
UNDER the new law which provtdes tnat
executions for murder III New York shall
be by electricity, it is made misdemeanor
to report or publish the executions The
statute IS held To be Unconstitutional be-
cause 1t abridges the liberty OF the press,
which IS guaranteed under the crgani,: law
A ST. LoUIs suicide wrote u am sixty
two years old In eight years would have
been seventy, an old, dilapidated, totterlng
fossil. have played the world out and it
don't owe me cent. I've had more fun
than a mule in a corn-fiel and Ive got
enough Therefore / will cheat the course
| Of nature and Jump the tune to come"
The process of whitening sugar was dis
4 covered IN curious way. a hen that had
I gone through a clay puddle went with her
( muddy feet into a sugar house She left
tracks on pile Of sugar. 1t was noticed
that wherever her tracks were the sugar
was whitened. Experiments were instr
( tuted, and the result WAS that wet clay
/ came 70 be used IN refining sugar
/ A sADDLE-coLoRED negro claiming to be
! lawyer from New York arrived at Powder
/ Springs, Ga, short time ago, and. on the
/ strength of Harrison's election. told the
negroes that he was sent ont to buy up all
the lands he could and sell them to negroes
on twenty years time at six per cent. His
charge for inspecting farm was from ten
to twelve dollars, which every one that
wanted 70 buy had to pay in advance, and
he was 10 meet them in Marietta and make
themdeeds to the farms. He picked up q
| few hundred dollars and left