Omaha daily bee., 1891-10-18
CONSGBIILTTIES.

Let him be dark as TIthiops are,
The not impossible lie,
Or fair as Norseman from afar,
This son of Destiny.
Let him be monstrous tall and spare,
Who shall my heart control,
Or even short and somewhat square,
He yet shall own my soul.
But o sweet Cupid! let him be
No titled foreign man,
But one of our nobility
A straight American!
A tough" tender-The offer of a slugger,s
hand In marriage.
A feature of the Portland (Ore.) exposition
was the marriage of two couples in the pres
ence of 1000. Tic parties are popular every
whore.
Saturday evening Eugene Hector of the
Chicago Tribune and Miss Alta McNorton of
Greencastle, Ind, were united in marriage in
Chicago.
She-You say that my consenting to marry
you has made YOU very happy. He-Yes
You see what a simple thing it takes to make
me happy.
The marriage of Miss Bessie Webb, the
daughter of General and Mrs. Alexander S.
Webb, to Mr.. George Parsons, will be one of
the important of the November ceremonies
in New York.
At the old-fashioned. homelike residence of
Ex-Governor Bedlc, fronting on Van Worst
park, Jersey City, on the evening of October
ia, Miss Althea Randolph Bedle and Mr..
Adolphe Rusch were married.
One of the attractions at the Ottumwa
(Iowa) coal palace u night or two ago was a
wedding. A marriage ceremony IN a coal
palace would seem to be unpleasautly sug-
gestive of coal bilIs-not one of the least of
the annoyances of domestic existence.
She-You ale not half as interesting as l
thought you before we married. He-And
you are not half as beautiful as | thought
you. She-ltS a good thing that neither of
us has money enough to live apart, isn't 1t?
He-Yes; we ought to congratulate our
selves.
Novellsts and poets will have to revise
their rhapsodles on 1.-THE leafy month of
June'' as the season when lovers build bow
ers and WOO the hymeneal deity. The crown
that June has so long worn as the wedding
month has been transferred to autumn-hued
October. The columns Of the newspapers are
filled with accounts of society events in which
a ring, two young people and a clergyman
are the predominating features.
A marriage and the death occurred in u
Somerville (Mass.) home on Tuesday last.
Tue groom was Mr.. Louis p. Rollins of
Brooklyn, N. Y, and his bride was Miss
Kate e. Norcross. She was on her death
bed ut tho time, and ten hours afterward she
was a corpse. Miss Norcross had been sick
a week with pneumonia, and when 1t was
known that she had not long live, her lover
was summoned ny Telegraph anc reaCueu ner
bedside that night. When told that she
could not recover, Miss Norcross insisted
upon an immediate marriage. A marriage
license was procured and as the church bells
tolled the hour of 3 the brief service was
ended, and the bonds were sealed which
were soon to be broken. Then her will was
drawn, and, though she was growing weaker
she signed it with a mind perfectly clear and
a hand which seemed to gain strength and
steadiness for that special purpose. The
,r,ll r,ynn unit neend h thn ~ ~ tho
physician and an attendant. 1t gives the
most of her prosperity, reported to be worth
not far from 500, 900, to Mr.. Rollins. Tho
remainder goes to Charleston (Nle.) academy.