Omaha daily bee., 1896-08-23

CDSSUDIALITtES.

Mustapha Mussa Ben Yessuf Abu Heona
has been arrested in London for bigamy.
A man with such a name ought to be al
lowed to divide it between at least two
helpmeets.
A Denver paper records the marriage of
a man only three feet high. He will feel q
good deal smaller than that when his wife
begins to ask him where he has been at this
hour of the night.
The engagement is announced of Mis-
Eleanor Spurrier Alexander. daughter of the
United States minister to Greece, Servia
and Rumaain, -Eben Alexander, to Andrew
Henry Patterson of Georgia.
Tandem Opponents are becoming popular
in Ohio. a young couple rode from Medina
to Sandusky and a justice of the peace did
the rest. They couldn't afford a carriage
but they looked SWEET on the street with a
bicycle built for two.
Princess Maud of Wales came near not
getting married Oh her wedding day. The
archbishop Of Canterbury and the bishop of
Winchester, two of the five p~relates needed
to tie the knot, had sent their state robes
to buckingham palace in the early morn
ing. The robes were mislaid by a stupid
servant, and the whole palace was turned
time for the service.
Rev. DR.. A. D. Wilbor and his wife OF
Rochester celebrated the hftieth anniversary
Of their wedding last week. DR.. Wilbor,
who is a Methodist minister, has held many
important charges in western New York.
He was for ten years treasurer of Genesee
wesleyan seminary, Lima, NJ, Y, and for
five years was superintendent of the Ba-
tavla Institution for the Blind
The young woman of Nashua, Ia, who
started the Boies stampede in the Chicago
convention, tells a Chicago paper about her
post-convention fame. 1t seems that the
people of Nashua haven't made much of
her, because they are gold bugs" But
she gets a heavy mail, many of the letters
containing offers of marriage. One clergy
man in Canada, with dark brown hair and
dark slumbering eyes" wrote her that he
was willing to crawl twenty miles ION his
hands and knees" to see her.
The proposed marriage between the Hered-
ltary Prince of Coburg and one of the twin
daughters of he Grand Duchess Vera of
Wurtemberg leach of whom will nave a
fortune of twelve million of marks) appears
to have fallen through, and it is rumored
that Prince Alfred will shortly be betrothed
to the Princess Feodore of SaXe-Meiningen,
only child Of the Hereditary Prince Bernard,
while her mother is the Princess Charlotte
of Prussia, eldest daughter of the Emperor
Frederick. Princess Feodore was born at
Potsdam May u. 1879, so she is four years
and a half younger than Prince Alfred.
In Killingly, Conn, there lives a French
Canadian. named Levi Bradshaw. He has
been a resident of that town about thirteen
years, anu Il lON VI years dlu I IlOnllS
old. He has been married three times, and
is the father Of forty-one children. Forty
of these are now living. The last child
died shortly after it's birth, three weeks
ago. His first wife fore him six children.
three being twins in that family. The
second wife was the mother Of twenty
four children, Of whom twelve are twins,
and his present consort has presented him
with eleven children. Bradshaw was first
married when under IA years of age. His
eldest son is now "a years of age, and has
several children and grandchildren. Twenty
nine of his sons and daughters are married,
all having children. This man does not
know just how large his family of grand
children and decentralization has be-
come, as the sons and daughters have scat
tered, but he can count up more than $50
descendants that he is certain about. Mr.,
Bradshaw married his last wife in Daniel
son about thirteen years ago, and the last
child born to them is the only one dead.