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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1224, 13 December 1882, Page 1 (Supplement)

It is reported that Mr. Oscar Wilde is to be married. The bride expectant is Miss Howe, one of the most beautiful of American belles. The marriage is not to take place until after the Japanese tour of the apostle of iesthe ticism A man who was in the same train with Wilde, coming from Beno to Ogden, relates an amusing experience:—Wilde was lounging back in hie seat, dreaming of asphodel, &c., when the train boy woke him up by shouting “ Hoscar Wilde’s poems for ten cents !” The poet started up to a sitting position, with—“ Great Gurod, is it possible that my poems have reached such beastly figures as that ?” “ Three for two bits,” continued the boy. He offered the poet some copies of the Seaside Library edition in paper. Wilde grabbed the book and fixed his big eyes on the boy. “Do you know, my dear sir, that you are lending your countenance to a hellish infringement on the rights of an English Author ?” replied the boy, slowly. “Do you 'spose the feller that rit the book will know it ?” “Of course he will. How can your guilty acts escape his cognizance ?” “ His cognuzzence ain’t anything to me. It ain’t loaded, is it ?” “ I am the author of those poems.” “Ah ! go away,” snickered the boy, “ if I thought such a looking chap as you rit them lines, d’ye 'spose I’d peddle 'em ? No, sir ”' The crowd roared, and Wilde joined heartily in the laugh.