Arizona republican., 1899-05-05
STRANGE HoNEYMooNs.
Wedding Tours That Were Very Orig
 inal, to Say the Least.

| A short time since an adventurous
 couple spent their first days of welded 1 life on the summit of Mont Blanc The
 ascent, extremely hazardous by reason of terrific snow storms, being success fully accomplished the bridegroom, ll the presence of the guides, embraced his young wife, to whom he s'wore eter- nal fidelity, and received from her lips
 an equally fervent assurance.
 In the neighborhood of Dobschau, a small Hungarian town, there is an ex- traordinary ice cave.< In this cave, some sixteen years ago, a couple named
 Kolcsey elected to pass the week inn mediately following their marriage.
 They took with them a plentiful sup ply of rugs, blankets and warm cloth .
 ing, but notwithstanding all precaU- tions their experience was not of 8 sufficiently pleasant nature to tempt
 imitators.
 A walking tour may make an endur- able honeymoon, but to convert the latter into a walking match seems sad- ly incongruous with the rites of Fly men. Such, however, was not the opinion of one James Muir and his young bride, who were united in wed lock last autumn. While counting they had taken many long walk together. during which q contention had arisen respecting their pedcs trian ability Io nigh did this pickering run that they resolved. as soon as they were married, to put tleir respective claims to the test by walking from London 10 E. eter, he bride being allowed to go h. train to bas asHngstoke distance of 47A miles. No sooner had the knot been tied than the newly married wife took a cab to the station, while the husband started off westward at a good pace lc the result the latter was ungallant enough to win by over two miles, though the lady kept the lead until Ecniton, 167s miles from the goal, was passed.
 A month since young couple from Birmingham came to London on three days honeymoon. Alighting at Euston, they strolled down the Mary lebone road, utnil they sighted the building that contains Madame Tus- saud's famed collection They entered. and so entranced were they by the wonders they beheld, that they re- mained till closing time Next day they were the first to enter the build ing and the last to leave; and so also on the two succeeding days. Then perforce they had to return home, highly delighted with their London wedding trip.
 The writer knows of a couple who spent their entire wedding day in jour neying round and round the inner cir. cle of the underground raiEway-a novel experience that pleased them greatly; and of a pair who, in the days of the old Polytechnic, forswore the wedding breakfast and affronted- all their friends by going direct from the church to that resort of scientific en- there to indulge in unlim- iteO diving-bell descents. Only two years ago, also, a young man namet: Marr and his bride spent their wedding day on the Earl's Court Wheel
 Perhaps, however. the most strange and gruesome idea of a honeymoon OIL record was that conceived by a well-to- dc tradesman of Marseilles, named Dever. who, in the autumn of 1880, O, his wedding day, travelled to Paris with his young wife to show her the execu tion of the miscreant Menesclou.-Tit- Bits.