A CELESTIAL'S WEDDING.
DISAPPOINTMENT OF THE BRIDEGROOM. A very funny thing happened, illustrative of Chinese customs, recently near the famous city of Hong Chow. A wealthy married Celestial, who was not blessed with a sweetvoiced wife, concluded to try a second venture in the great lottery. Making the acquaintance of an oily-tongued tailor through the medium of a pair of satin breeches he had ordered, he was informed there was a perfect divinity, longing for the nuptial chains. So the marriage-broker arranged the wedding ; the bride appeared in the orthodox scarlet veil; the ceremonies were finished ; the beauty with the lily feet retired to the sanctity of the bridal chamber; the anxious and expectant groom lifted the scarlet veil, and in the place of beauty he saw the wrinkles of age j sh« was blind and deaf and dumb; the poor old hag had been used as a tool by the gay and festive tailor, who robbed his new friend of the big pile of Mexican dollars he had given to him to buy the bridal gifts, and then disappeared So much for the charming Chinese custom of taking a second wife, because you do not like the first, and of taking her to your bosom without looking at her before the fatal noose is tied.
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Globe, Volume VI, Issue 607, 30 May 1876, Page 3
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