Omaha daily bee., 1892-09-25
CONNUBI.ILITIES.

Marriages to take place in the early
autumn and following seasons are being
announced each day aud the usual natrlmon-
ial epidemic threatens 10 rage during
October.
No great truth ever gained foothold
against error without persistent fighting,
but some husbands aud wives have QuarreleG
together all their lives without either being
able to convince the other that when they
were made one bv the minister that the
other was not the one.
Missouri man who helped lynch II
married man some years ago has had an
attack Of conscience and is going to repair
damages by marrying the widow. The
angels will smile at this uuon and some OF
them will have to stuff tholr haloes into their
mouths to keep from laughing.
Richard Mansfield, the we'll known the
atrical star who Is now playing the part of
Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale in Joseph Hattou's
dramatizaton of Hawthorne's romance,
"rhe Scarlet Letter." was quietly married
to Mss Beatrice Cameron, leading lady in
the play, in New York city recently.
A young man about town was asked which
he considered most attractive in the fair SEX
face or figure He replied in the following
epigram;
Quoth Tom, Though fair her features be.
1t is her figure pleises me-
What may her figure pei" cried,
"One hundred thousand" he replied.
A propirious omen of republican success
in the announcement that Miss Ella Spencer
Reid, niece of the Hon. Whitelaw Rsid. is
to be married 10 Judge Ralph Chandler Har-
! rlson of California at Ophir farm on Oct. %.
Harrison and Reid ara great combination,
Inatrimonially and politically.
A Fl EN- bride was heard weeping con-
| vusilvely and exclaiming in piteous accents
,'You swore to love and cherish mo until
time would bs no more You said your love
| was eternal, and now we have been married
| "a pnlH
| ter" deep manly voice responued; "You
| needn't make such fuss. In the name OF
heaven, how long do you expect eternal
affection to lasta Forever ehf'
| According to statistics, of the 82s, ,0o1, ,Edi
| vorces granted In the United STATES dur -np
| the last twenty yearsl 100000 were granted
| at the request OF wives. This may indicate
| as one woman commentator on the figures
assumes, that man has been the offender In
| 96 per cent OF the cases. But ON the Other
hand it may indicate that man has more
| patience than woman IN the endurance Of
| matrimonial crosses.
A divorce just granted by the superior
court OF San Diego CAL, ADDS the closing <
twenty minutes. About ten months age
the American ship lnvincible sailed int
San Diego bay coal-ladened from Newcastle
Australia, She docked, ana when being un
loaded by longshoresmen the crew was giver
| shore leave. On board was one ID. Rampaz
He left the ship for shore, and secured lodg
ings at the Paige house in San Diego an,
while there became infatuated with the land
lady's daughter, Annie v. Paige. To her h
told fabulous stories OF his wealth ant
faulty and claimed to be the son of a frencl
count, styling himself Baron de Rsmpaz
The dream lasted but twenty minutes, whei
The bride learned that she had married no
o traveller, but the ships cook. He was no
q french couIt. but West Indian negro VIII
was blessed with little better color an
considerably better address than most OF hi
fellows. The girl fled and sought shelte
with friends and was kept in concealmen
unul the bridegroom sailod from port.