Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-05-24
MARRIED AT MIDNIGHT.
High-Born English Dukes Extraordi-
nary Wedding Ring.

stantinel ren0unced ali Flght OF success
sion to the throne to marry French
governess.
But the despotic will of the Gar
makes it rather difficult for subjects
to indulge in such vagaries, and En-
gland is, after all, par excellence, the
country of runaway matches. Think
how for hundreds ct years the infamous
marriages at the prison of the Fleet,
the Kings Bench prison, the mint, the
Savoy and the chapel in Mayfair -four
ished. and how hard it was to abolish
them, such men as Charles James Fox
opposing their suppression. He had a
kindly feeling for them, and we'll he
might, for his own father had been mar
ried there. And the high born Duke of
Hamilton, whose proud house looks with
disdain on Guelphs. regarding them as
lowlv interlopers, marrying one of tho
beautiful Miss Cummings, those famous
Irish sisters that took the town by
storm. in the Mayfair Chapel at mid.
night with ring of a bed-curtain!
Besant and Rice's charming novel,
THE Chaplain of the Fleet" has
described so vividly the peculiarities OF
those strange weddings that we refrain
from dwelling any longer on Fleet mar
riages, lest we might be repeating
twice-told tale; but it will be news to
MANY of our readers to learn that
Gretna Green was in full force till 1857,
when the new marriage law-reluctant-
ly enough granted, came into effect, re-
curing English men and women to
reside six weeks in Scotland before be-
ing able to contract legal marriage in
that countrv-bereft it of its ancient
Glories.
Hitler. in October, 1918, came rafting
ND the great North Country roads that
brilliant legal luminary, Lord Erskine.
Lord Chancellor of England. Did he
ever. when seated in great dignity on
the "woolsack," recall that wild gallop
and wilder escapade? His signature
scratched with diamond IS still to he
seen on a window of the old Queens
Head Inn,'' at Gretna, and copy of the
certificate is hung up in the room in
which he was married.
Lord Eldon, in his twenty-frst year,
a penniless barrister, with brains
plenty and briefs but few, eloped with
Miss Surtrees, of Newcastle. He, as
we'll as Lord Brougham, his successor in
the CHARACTERISTIC of England-truly a
risky trio of Lord neutrality-suspicious.
lied Coldstream on the eastern border.
But great names of far more recent date
are to be found on these curious border
registers. Foreign Princes, English
Earls. innumerable Baronets, etc, etc.
In 1915 Lady Adela Villiers, youngest
daughter of the Earl of Jersey, whose
sister was married to prince Nicholas
Esterhazy, the Hungarian magnate.
rloped with Captain Ibbetson, following
the example of her grandmother, the
only daughter of rich Mr.. Childs, the
banker who. in 1852, wentoff with Lord
Rurghersh, afterward tenth Earl of
Westmoreland.
There may be seen the signature of
Lady Florence Paget daughter of the
Marquis of Anglesey, the handsomest
woman in England, and the last Mar
uuis of Hastings, uncle Of Lady Flora
Hastings, the late Duchess of Norfolk
The lady was betrothed 10 Mr.. Chaplin,
the present Ministt-4=ssf Agriculture,
the richest commoner in England. She
and her fiance went into great Lon
don jewelry house to have her finger
measured for the wedding ring. The
shop had another entrance at the
back, on different street; this entrance
was shut off from the main part of the
store by kind of parlor.
Excusing herself on some pretext or
other, and asking Mr.. Chaplin to
await her return, the fair fiance
went into the parlor and out
through the other door where u
carriage and four and the Mar
quis Of Hastings were waiting for her,
and they were we'll on their way TO the
border before the trick was discovered.
N. Y. Mercury and Journal.
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.
The Bible has been translated into
sixty-six OF the languages and dialects
OF africa.
--One-half the population of Japan is
in the southern part, but the most of the
missionary work has been done in the
northern-central portions of the empire.
The first missionary arrived in Corea
in 1854; the first convert was baptized in
1856. Now there are more than 100
Christians in the country.
According to the Book Buyer there
we're 377 works on theology and religion
published in 1886, 351 in 1887, 4s2 in 1883,
and SO3 in 1899
Rev. j. l.. bearing says the eager
ness OF the Japanese for Christianity is
overstated. They are eager for educa-
ton. but Christianity is stumbling
block to many.
An association of teachers of girls
schools was lately organized at Madras
India, with forty-fve members Mrs
Isabel Brander, who originated the idea,
was elected president.
The Baptist denomination in Libe-
ria is the only self-supporting religious
body in that country. There are thirty
one churches with 8. 600 members They
have mission among the aborigines.
The Topeka Capital (Kansas)
says: ''The teacher ought to make a
continuous study of means for best APP
plying the rudiments of education in
building up men and women fit for the
practical work of life
The Methodist Church has decided
to build college in Kansas City, Kan.
Property worth about 81 900, 600 has
been acquired there and the educational
committee of the church recently met
to arrange for the erection Of a suitable
building.
Tho British and Foreign Bible So
ciety has, during the eighty-one years
of its existence. issued from its London