MISCELLANEOUS.
As a part of the marriage ceremony in Servia, tin* bride has to hold a piece of sugar b tween her lips as a sign that she will speak little and sweetly during her married life. The sugar soon melts away.
The Maryland Senate has passed a bill reducing marriage licenses to fifty cents. The lower House is expected to further this matrimonial boon. This may be called a “ leap year note/* A lady, upon visiting Mr, Barnum’s white elephan in his London quarters, expressed her disappointment in findii g the animal merely of a grey colour. “ Well, ma’am,” said the keeper consolingly, “ maybe he ain’t werry white, but then he’s werry sacred.” Rhoda Broughton, the English novelist, is the daughter of a clergyman. She is wild and hoydenish, but brilliant, and uses the most reckless and daring metaphors to enliven her stories.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 112, 22 April 1884, Page 2
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144MISCELLANEOUS. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 112, 22 April 1884, Page 2
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