Omaha daily bee., 1897-03-21
CONNUBIALITIES.

When a boy is old enough to be trusted
with a night key he is old enough to need a
wife to look after him.
At Eaton, Ind, on Tuesday occurred the
marriage of Charles G. Gunckle, aged AZ,
and Martha L. Hodge, she is but a little past
10.
An American girl has broken through Wey-
ler's trocha and captured the affections OF a
Spanish general. The great American girl
Is simply irresistible.
Oscar Randall of Chillicothe, who married
BERTHE de Vaul there, is the son of his brides
stepmother by her first husband, so that
his mother becomes his mother-in-law and
his brides father becomes his father-in-law.
When Bette Quick, who was receiving the
attentions of Fred Bokamb and Henry Per-
kins In Knott county, Kentucky, appeared
to FAVOR Perkins, Bokamb got a polecat and
threw it into her lap, and trouble began.
Perkins was in 1t. Reports are meager"
at Middlesboro, but Bokamb was MORALLY
wounded.
Governor Atkinson Of Georgia was called
out of church last Sunday and informed that
his 17-year-old son was about to elope with
Miss Ada Byrd, granddaughter OF the south
ern authoress, Mrs. Mary Il, Bryan. He at
once intercepted the young man and put
him under lock and key, while the girls
father did the same thing for her.
Some weeks ago Thomas b. Gulledge was
injured by a train and was taken to the
ilnS dun, ARR, lllIlldIy. MISS Lena VIII
liams, a trained nurse, pretty and accom-
plished, nursed the sick man, and he was
fully restored to health. Cupid got the bet
ter of them both during the gentleman's ill
ness, and ON Tuesday a large number OF
friends witnessed their marriage.
Senator Vlndiver of the Missouri legls-
lature has introduced a bill to fine widows
and maidens for rejecting widowers and
bachelors. The measure provides for pun
ishment of such Offences by the infection
OF a fine of not less than 800 nor more than
$500, and, furthermore, that the party con-
yicted shall darn the socks of the rejected
and sew on his buttons for six months there
after.
Edward Hines of Clayton, Mich, a groom
elect. visited the county seat, secured a mar
riage license and hustled to the depot again,
as the marriage was to take place at noon.
He took the fast mail, which does not stop
at Clayton, Hines sought the conductor in
vain. Finally Hines remembered a heavy
grade near Clayton where the train Stacked
up. A wedding with only the bride in IL
would never do, so Hines decided to jump.
He did, and after shaking the sand out of
his eyes apr cared before mis- fiancee, and in
less than an hour he was a groom.
The marriage OF Prof. Henry A. Ward OF
Wards museum, Rochester, and Mrs. Lydia
Avery CoOnley OF Chicago, will soon take
place. Prof. Ward. who has become well
known as a geologist. was at college when
the great geologist, Agasslz, delivered a lee
ture In a town twenty-eight miles distant.
He missed the coaches on which the other
students rode to the lecture and, rather than
not hear II, walked the entire distance.
When Agassiz heard about the wonderful
performance of the student he sent for the
young man and offered him a place as his
assistant, a tender which was at once &C,
eepted by the collegian. He accompanied
Agassiz to Europe and worked with him
until the death OF the famous investigator.