Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-09-23
SOME ODD WEDDINGS.
RESULTS OF THE BRIDES PAS
SION FOR NOVELTY.
Marriage Ceremonies Performed In Caves,
Switchback Cars, Burial Vaults,
on Mountain Tops and
Among Clouds

passion for odd wedding places The
hum drum ceremony as we know it is
too uneventful for her; she wants the
excitement OF novelty. Her husband,
when he comes to her. must come pic
turesquely. If there is lofty noun
tain near her home she has notion
that it won be pleasant to be mar
rled on its summit II there is a cave
dnder a cataract she fixes on that
damp though romantic spot as like
ly wedding place. Natural impedi-
ments fail to daunt her; wet feet and
the ills that accompany exposure
merely give an additional touch Of
romance TO the proceedings.
News has reached us of one OF the
grimmest marriage freaks on record.
Their first step was to fix on likely
spot for family vault This having
been done to their satisfaction. they
called their friends together and
were married on the very place where
they had described TO be put to rest
One shudders to think of such a
wormy prelude to honeymoon.
Ono couple in Philadelphia claim
to have been married in a switchback
cSr They had been parted for ten
years by a lovers quarrel but when
they did get married resolved to
make some noise over it Surly this
was the fastest marriage on record.
The young woman who could do any
thing on switchback but gasp and
hold on must have been very de-
termined.
Compared with this wedding in a
Pullman car is commonplace, says
the Saturday Evening Post and the
numerous instances of such unions
hardly deserve to be recorded here.
One OF the most recent OF wedding
| freaks is the matrimonial balloonist
More than one enterprising couple
have joined hands for lie in bal
loon. greatly TO the discomfort Of the
officiating clergyman. who had no de-
sire to move skyward before the debt
OF nature made that proceeding I'M
avoidable. The moment the cere-
mony was over the balloon was let
go and the happy pair commenced
their honeymoon careerlng through
space.
There is no limit to the matrimon-
ial ingenuity OF this sort One mar
riageable girl OF New York has init
mated that whoever weds her will
have to do so in an elevator and an
| other actually carried out her inten-
ton to change her name in a diving
bell The bell was wreathed with
flowers, but the air space was too linn
tied, and the surroundings altogether
too suggestive of Jonah's lodging TO
prompt a repetition. Some day "a
more courageous girl than usual will
get wed down coal pit
1t would not be the right direction
for young folks to turn, and bridal
white would look CHASTITY in the black
setting OF coal galleries but not more
ghastly than the midnight marriage at
the tapping of blast furnace which
has just been proposed in Pittsburg
Nothing in industry is more weirdy
beautiful than the scene presented by
bleeding blast furnace in the black
ness OF night The only light comes
from the stream of liquid iron that
glides like serpent from the furnace
foot slowly draining the fiery lake
within, and Kissing and spluttering as
1t feels its way along the sand beds.
This is the light by which the Pitts
burg bride would we'd. She must
have some imagination. but no notion
OF comfort
Ladies who impose such conditions
must be more particular where they
marry than whom they marry. Some
American girls are indeed. matrimoni-
ally speaking OF a most accommodate
ing disposition. In the early DAYS
when the maiden knew little OF her
sutton until she met him at the altar
the substitution OF one bridegroom
for another might not have been of
much account Girls have more voice
in the matter nowadays and one does
not expect them to leave the choice
OF n husband to chance.
Yet this was the deliberate action
OF one American girl known as the
Tennessee 'Oil Queen" who added
to much personal beauty university
degree and big pile of dollars. Two
" ASA W OiR oO % w ll6T
liking that she could not settle be.
tween them; SO to avoid the inevita-
BILE shooting. her father proposed an
eight miles running race the victor
70 wed the lady before night No OBJ
lection was raised either by the rivals
or the object OF their regard Perhaps
the young lady had learned something
about the sprinting powers OF the
younger and more ardent lover of the
two In any case. he soon outpaced
his older and Weather rival. and
raced himself into possession OF wife
and fortune at the same time.
There is an odd story told by Nor
folk vicar OF one OF the parishioners
who was married by installments He
had gone TO church with his bride.
and had expressed his readiness to |
forsake all others and keep only to
her as long as they both should live.
When IL came TO the young woman's |
turn. however. she was not so minded. |
No persuasion could make her agree |
to her share OF the bargain. Pleading /
and storming were alike in vain. and |
at last the intended couple left the J