Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-10-25
SOME ODD DIVORCES.
here TRIES That Have Separated
and Wrecked Whole
Families.

The grounds assigned by some peo-
pie for desiring to secure a divorce
would in many cases be amusing, were
not for the fact that the subject is
4 much more serious one than is gen.
orally accepted. The reason lately put
forward by an old couple in London is
among the strangest on record.
The individuals in question were well
supplied with this worlds goods, had
yrown-up family, and were so circum-
stanced that they had everything neces-
sary TO make life comfortable. 1t was
how, though after years of married
bliss, that the rift occurred. AS the
woman was 63 years of age, and the man
ten years her senior, if was only nat
ural that they should begin to think of
the close of life, and ultimately they
began looking around in the cemetery
for suitable spot for their last resting
place. They could not agree, how
ever, upon the site for a grave, and,
4uarreling, decided to seek a divorce.
This took place in America, and it
seems a pity that happy life should
be spoiled by quarreling over death.
Last year woman wanted to get rid
or her husband simply because he was
a teetotaler, and applied to London
magistrate with that end in view She
had been married nearly 40 years, and
it was certainly rather late in life to
want to be single again. The lady ex-
planned that she was accustomed to TAX
ing three half-pints of stout a day. and
her husband objected to such liberal
supply. Of course, she did not get what
she wanted.
Quite recently, too, Cincinnati man
applied for divorce, assigning the
dovel reason that his wife was incom.
plete. 1t appears that the lady had
glass eye, but his eyes had not been
open enough to detect the fact during
courtship. Of course, it is generally
held that love is blind, and possibly
this accounts for his failure to notice
that both eyes were not exactly alike
Somehow the glass one got broken, and
when bill was sent to the husband
for having it replaced he awoke to the
fact that his better half was not quite
all there. He therefore left her and
sued for a divorce on account of an al.
legged fault.
Another case is that of Chicago man
who took action under rather peculiar
circumstances. He gradually became
bald after marriage, and when suing for
divorce pleaded that matrimony was
the cause of it. To support his conten-
ton he produced photograph taken
before marriage, showing him to be
the proud possessor of luxuriant locks,
and these had nearly all disappeared
owing to the grasping character of his
wife. She replied that the badness was
natural. and that much of the hair had
fallen out when she was absent Such
case afforded a splendid opportunity
for advertising hair restorers, and the
unfortunate husband had numerous
offers of specialties warranted to make
hair grow on the baldest pate.
Occasionally a lady likes to have
bath in the open sea, but a California
woman who transgresses in that direc
ton had to appear in the divorce court
in consequence. By so doing she offend
ed her lord and master, and he held that
there was no necessity for such step,
seeing that there was an elegant fur.
nished bathroom at home, quite suffi
cient for all her additions. She had
bathed with others in park lake, and
the thought that she had padded
around in the water with her bare feet
quite Disguised the poor fellow; con
sequently, as kind of consolation, he
sued for dissolution of the marriage.
1t seems to be very simple matter
to get a divorce in this country, hence
the many curious reasons put forward
from time to time. China, however,
runs this country pretty close, for there
man may get rid of his wife for jeal
ousy, theft, disobedience to his parents
and talkativeness. Were the latter re.
garded as a sufficient reason in this
country there would be very few cur.
tain lectures, we imagine.
Another curious case was dealt with
the other day, when a lady sued for
divorce on the ground that her hus.
band was actually her brother, and not
her cousin, as she imagined at the time
of her marriage. A very similar case
comes from Hungary, where marriage
between couple has been declared null
! and oid.-Philadelphia Times.