MISCELLANEOUS.

Evening Star, Issue 3322, 13 October 1873, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

Five generations of one family were present at the recent wedding of one of its members in Columbus, (la. A St. Louis man left his property to his wife on condition that she would be “ :• mother indeed ” to his children.

Early marriages are approved of in Lafayette, Ind. One has just been celebrated there are at six o'clock in the morning. Chicago has a married couple who have lived together for seventy years. This .singular conduct is accounted for on the ground of spite. At the recent wedding of a Bavarian Army officer, one hundred and eighty-ono of his brother officers claimed the right to kiss the bride. She responded to each smack, and wasn’t tired the least bit —but the happy husband was. A singular epidemic broke out in a Kansas town last week. Every wife in the town was suddenly attacked by an irresistible desire to present her husband wiih a nice little dressing case, with shaving materials complete. An attractive young woman had opened a barber-shop in the village. The last Kentucky Legislature passed an Act declaring that the wages and compensation of married women for labor and service performed by them shall be free from the debts and control of their husbands. For a number of years the Courts of the State have been authorised to empow or married women, on the joint application of themselves and their husbands, to act as single women in matters of business. So Kentucky is not so far behind the rest of the world, after all. Lydia Murray, a practical woman’s rights advocate, who follows the calling of a cab driver, has lately been fined sdol. for fast driving in a London street. She paid up, like a true Jehu, and drove from Marylebone, to the admiration of a crowd of men and boys. The Daily Review records an amusing conversation which took place in the galleries of the Free Church Assembly one day lately Young Lady—“ There’s old Dr A going to speak. Isn’t he a bore?" Old Lady (laughing)-“ Well, I suppose he is ; but do you know I rather like him.” Young Lady—“l can’t bear him.” Old Lady (after some time)—“ Who is that nice old gentleman speaking?” Young Lady—“ Ah, that’s Mr B of C —Old Lady (hesitatingly) —“ Don’t you think that he is—rather prosy?” Young Lady (indignantly) -” No, indeed, I do not. Allow me to inform you that that is my father.’’ Old Lady—“ Oh, indeed. Then I am glad I hit the mark sp gently, because ‘ Old Dr A ’ is my husband. So I suppose ave have both got a lesson, my dear; don’t you think ?” The money crisis in Vienna—the result of wild speculation and gambling—appears to have been one of the most disastrous on record. The gay capital was literally convulsed. In one week there were three hundred failures ; it was difficult to get good bills discounted at b per cent., and in the wreck of fortunes and credit numerous suicides took place. One writer says: —“The Bourse became a Pandemonium such as Wall street has not witnessed. Men cursed one another, shook fists at one another, raged and stamped and tore. The little bell which rings whenever an insolvency is announced seemed never to be still. (Mitsido a miserable crowd had assembled. There were representatives of all classes and callings ; exprinces of the Bourse, chamberlains, billiardmarkers • haggard clerks from the offices of the Government” commanding officers and subalterns grocers and countesses, servant-maids and singers from the opera. It was as much to stay the riot and tumult, as for lack of transactions, that the extreme measure of dosing the Bourse was adopted. It was tune for

this when Lynch law was openly advocated, and the bearers of the greatest financial names in Vienna had to fly for their lives.” From Vienna the panic spread to Berlin, where there has been a speculation fever ever since the brilliant close of the war with France. That great success stimulated enterprise, and called into existence scores of bubble-schemes, the collapse of which has caused this delude. Germany, however, lias suffered much less than Austria.