Morning journal and courier., 1894-03-10
THE FLEETING SHOW.
Some It's Facts and Fancies.

Some Of It's Facts and FaDCtess Written for the JOURNAL AND CoURIER.l OVERHEARD IN PEABODY MUSEUM. They tell me that women have entered at Yale!"
 Said the optononhoptononpolopus "Are you fossilized quite' 'Tis an over true tale,''
 Cried the Winglessanstinglessantho 'sBut they say that they study! They really are wise. They go in for degrees. They aspire to prize.- They had best be at home making biscuit and pies" Quoth the optononfotononpolopus. ''Thst isn't the worst! Oh, sadder by far, | Said the nstipglessantholopus, ''They are crowding the pulpit, the bench and the bar.
 Dear ptononfioptononpolopus, Let me whisper-I may not authorities quote,
 But 'tis prophesied clearly, by thinkers of note, That-some day-the women are-going to- ! vote!i"
 Sighed the Winglessanstingiessan tholopus. Aud was rigid and mute as when dug from the
 clay,
 By the famous professor who doteth on bones:
 And all the grim fossils, as silent as stones, All petrifed stood, till the eldest gave tongue To their thoughts: "Oh, it wafnt So when we
 were young,
 Or think, how our fathers would wallop us!''
 Said tho anstinglessauthoiopus l UNDER THE AXE.
 The following story, said to be au-
 thentic, proves that Love who laughs at
 locksmiths may also safely defy Mlksdoes.
 The threatened live long. 1t is said, and
 this Is Q romance of thirty years ago:
 A Portuguese gentleman fell in love with
 Japanese girl, and in spite of the ediot
 that if a girl of that nation married for.
 eigner che should instantly be bsheadsd,
 the maid of Japan fell in love with the
 Portuguese. Her parents warned her of
 the fatal consequences, but the lover made
 this consolipg promise: eff you will
 marry me I will die with you" "rhsn
 will marry you, die or live" she said. He
 was Catholic, and he had promised his
 parents not to marry out of his religion
 30. svsding the objscting friends, the pail
 eloped. sought out priest. He, too, sd vised sgainst the marriage, saying, "shs . cannot be baptized, confirmed and mar ried all in the same day." said the priest "She must," said the youth, and tT must, eaid the lady "for both of us must die to 2 morrow" Owing to the exi9encies o , the case some customary rules wer, waived, tho three ceremonies performed and the priest continued his friendl,
 offices by going before the authorities ant
 pleading that the bride might not lose he head, in more senses than one. The Nika ! do decided that he could not behead tn t Portuguese, but that the bride must pc,
 the price of her temerity. The pries
 warned him, however, saying that she wa . now Portuguese, and that he he'd bes i defer the sxecution until the Portugues government could be heard from on tn subieok. Time was therefor granted, th
 priest pefsusdsd, tkehusband pleaded, th n Portuguese government demanded, sn after . correspondencs which lasted fiv II years, and in which all consuls and othe . representatives of other nations in Japs Ie took part, ths young woman was permitte
 to go on living in her own hesdstrong way
 It is eaid that she is living yet, an ,s that she and her husband, Ar. I ], Rosa, the first European who dared " marry Japanese, are happy and prospe ,e ous, and surrounded by . fine family le their own. Perhaps the thought of tl
 axs that for Eve years hung over ths
 heads, kept them devoted and loving ar In true. Would not the very fear that e,