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LITERARY EXTRACTS

... Cumberland newspaper:-' May no miscarriage prevent my marriage ! Matthew Dawson, in Both- well, Cumberland, intends to be married in Holm Church, on the Thursday before Whitsuntide next, whenever that may happen, .and to return to Both- well to dine. Mr ...

MABEL'S LOVE; OR, THE BEAUTY OF RAYSTOCK

... but p by marriage. You are heir to the Hall; you fi must marry Beatrice Shelldrake, and the estates are united. There is a sensible, practicable plan, ai instead of your moonstruck madness.' n 'Marry Miss Shelldrake I ejaculated Edward, B in the extremity ...

EXTRACTS FROM THE OWL

... the whole of your property yourself. Sink it in an annuity. Certainly marry, sir. No single man, except one who has been divorced, or a widower, is content with his lot. And marry early. You had1 better get your troubles over before you are old. ...

VARIETIES

... attempt to solve it. PLATONIC LovE.-A young and beautiful but poor widow, was about to marry an old rich widower. Her friends wished to know what she wished to marry hint for. She replied, Pure love; I love the ground, meaning farm probably, on wnich ...

Literary Scraps

... the bodies, souls, eyes, and limbs of the enemy. ' -Aan. ttares of a Creole. MARRIED AND SINGLE.-Among the higher classes of people, the superior distinctions which married women receive, and the marked inattentions to which single women of advonced age ...

CLIPPINGS FROM THE COMIC PAPERS

... they've never met since,] (From Fanny Folks.) WHY MEN DO NOT MARRY THEIR DECEASED WIVES' SISTERS. A man meets a maiden-an angel she seems, Such an angel, he can't live without her; Once married, he quickly awakes from love's dreams; Once free, howe'er fondly ...

VARIETIES

... Why do you not marry her? Alas, Doctor ! that we would fain do, and have offered her as good a inatch as she could expect; but' she will not bear of marrying.. Is there no other, do yon think, that she would be content to marry ? Ab, Doctor! ...

ELLE ET LUI

... season. And then who does not remember the great social question started a year afterwards, as to whether men could possibly marry on three hundred pounds a year I What columns of discussion we hal upon this subject ? What balance sheets from thrifty housewives ...

THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO DARMSTADT

... At the Presbyterian Church, lUgant-squuo, London, Mrs. Richard A. Proctor, widow of well-known astronomer editor of was married Dr. JamesSuiyth, Beliast. Mr. Gladstone reed the lemons at Hawardsn Church yeeteriUy morning, rigtat hou. and Mrs. uiadston* ...

PICKINGS FROM THE COMIC PAPERS

... up on remand, charged Dwith having, on the 27th March, 1865, married tI :Maria Jones, his wife, Elizabeth Aldred, being at to that time alive. The prisoner, it was alleged, was S first married in Manchester, in l8til. He lived i with his wife till January ...

LITERARY EXTRACTS

... Stepney parish. That second cousins may not marry, though first cousins may. That the husband has the power of divorcing his wife by selling her in open market with a halter round her neck. That a woman's marrying a man under the gallows will save him from ...

Poetry

... wicked-the' vile be the bones that begot it, The poor skinny elf ahall have better things taught it Thian impious mur0lurings-marryings and cooings, Bringing down on our land all these doleful -a-doings. Waste nut your devotions on fathers and mothers, For ...