A Fashionable Wedding

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 96, 23 January 1886, Page 3

A Fashionable Wedding

1 ' m — : A despatch in a New York paper states freni Louisville (Kentucky) that :the most notable event 'in society this season was the wedding at nine o'clock at night, of Mr Sydney Smith Muir and Miss Sarah Loyd Birge. "The ceremony was performed at the residence of the bride's sister Mrs Sterling B.Toney, No 931, Third Avenue, in the presence of a large rand brilliant j.'*s emblage, and afterwards there was 'a magnificent supper rccep]tion. The ' bride's trousseau came from Paris, and was the most costly ever prepared jfor a Southern girl. The wedding ; dress, which Has been the admiration of society people for a week, was of i white' satin, sparging with seed' pearls ; and* ifiiiver etching. The corsage is ; square v and , > lowy; after the • latest ;P«rißian«ffanoy, with ■ a delicate' vestall gleaming • with seed pearls and dainty, cords of silver exquisitelywoven; together; Down the left side of . the skirt runs a broad panel, 'ornamented with. a sheaf of wheat wrought in silver and seed pearls and crested with a delicate garland of : orange blossoms, jessamine, andlillies 'of he valley. The right side of the skirt shows a wreathtof the same, rare; ;flowers, and. the. tail>J,s long .broad and [sweeping. The baci and front of tha 'stirt are. quite plain."

i A working man, who mores "amongst ihisifellows, sober, gentle, kindly, cheerful, 'brave, is a leaven in the. workshop ; an 'open window ..in, the stuffiest and most sickly" atmosphere ; a 'flaw.e'r; fragrant in !a d^nk and frowsy wilderness. : "^hen gentlemen go out on a spree they are apt to pick up nil kinds of ac--1 quaintances. A Texas gentleman, who ,was~in" New York on a visit, went out to ■ see the -sights. About 1- o'clock m the mprning, accompanied by one of his boon . companions, wliorii he had met that.evening for .the first time, he found himself in front of his boarding-house. , He felt in his pockets for the latchkey which had been furnished him by his landlady, but i oould npt 6nd it; " I've lost my key," :' said he. " Never mind," said the recently i I j acquired acquaintance ; " I've got my , jjjimmy with me. I'll have that door open iquickertltanyoueanejenitwith akey."

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