The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1899-11-14
MATRIMONIAL REvENGEs.
Queer Kinds Of Spite Work Some Men
Have Adopted.

1
Three years since two doctors,
named Ginx and Cairns, fell out.
Ginx at once cast about for a means
of venting his spite on his former
friend. Now it CHANGED that among
Cairns patients was an elderly spin
ster, whose imaginary ailments we're
a source of considerable income to his
exchequer. To this lady's heart Ginx
laid siege, and with such success
that, in less than six months, he led
her to the altar and deprived Cairns
of his most lucrative patient.
A Lincolnshire magistrate had oc-
casion TO fine certain young ne'er-
do-well for drunkenness. The latter
paid the fine, but resolved to get even
with the J. p. Good-looking and
INSCRIPTIONS, he commenced to pay
secret court TO his enemy's sister, a
lady of mature age and excessive con-
ceit. She gave ready ear to his spe-
cious flattery, and at his suggestion
eloped one morning and was married.
The horror of the lady's brother
at finding his sister united to one so
much beneath her can well be mag
med, while as for the husband, he not
only gratiled his spite, but lined his
pocket, his brother-in-law allowing
him an annual sum conditionally on
his living abroad.
A somewhat analogous case hap
pened only last year in well-known
West-end family. The master had
reason to dismiss his footman, who
retalnted by clipping with and mar
ryingthe formers aunt, lady of over
20, on whose gorgeous vanity the
quondam meniaPs vulgar cajolery
successfully worked. AS in the fore
going instance, this couple are like
wise in receipt of small pension.
A Brighton valetudinarian, who
for many years has been waited on by
a nurse in whom he had the greatest
confidence, happened to offend his
nephew. The latter determined to
have his revenge, and forthwith pro-
posed to his uncle's nurse, who, de-
spite the prayers and entreaties of her
employer, accepted the offer and
threw up her situation.
Not long since, at a fair held in the
north of France, the proprietor of a
waxwork exhibition quarreled with
fellows howman-at whose booth a
fat woman was the attraction-to the
detriment Of his stock-in-trade, sew
eral celebrities losing heads and
limbs during the fracas. The day
following he called upon his adver-
sary and rendered the olive branch,
which the other, suspecting no guile,
accepted. Alas, his trustful nature
received a rude shock when he awoke
one morning to miss his champion"
lady, who returned a few hours later
as the spouse of the waxwork man,
who had thus avenged himself for his
broken models.
Last year two friends living in
the neighborhood ofEastbourne, dev-
otees both of the delights of the table,
quarreled. Each secretly vowed ven
geance, and, knowing no better way
of obtaining this than through the
others stomach, sought to secure his
late friends cook. But the ladies'
both comely women, by the way
who were on the best Of terms with
each other, refused to quit their sit
uations. Meanwhile the two men,
each entirely ignorant of the others
design, relentlessly pursued their
purpose, which they accomplished at
length at the sacrifice of their liberty,
for the two cooks, seeing how matters
stood, placed their price of compli-
ance at wedding-ring. The ulti-
mate advertisement was side-split-
ting farce, which tended unfortun-
ately to still further widen the breach
between the parties.-London Tit
Bits.