A SINGULAR WEDDING CEREMONY.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1149, 11 March 1884, Page 3

A SINGULAR WEDDING CEREMONY.

The Courier Etats Unis publishes an account of a wedding which was solemnised in the Bowery, New York. The bridegroom was a lad of 16, named David Moses, employed in a museum of curiosities, and the bride a ‘ fat woman,’ who was one of the chief attractions of the show, the proprietors of which expected to increase the popularity of their exhibition by the marriage. David Moses refused for a long time to go through the ceremony, and hi« father, a butcher in the city, applied to the police to stop the marriage. The police, however, declared themselves unable to interfere. The clergyman who was to perform the ceremony was so much the worse for liquor that he could not stand straight, or read the service. After a brief delay he was able, by means of restoratives, to blunder through it, and the best man then made a speech informing the audience that a piece of paper he held in one hand was a cheque for lOOOdols. presented by the proprietors of the museum to the newly married couple, and that a large copper chain which he brandished in the other, was a massive gold necklace, presented to the bride by her comrades. While this speech was being made the clown was indulging in antics of various kinds, and the bridegroom was walking round the bride and contemplating her gigantic proportions with evident amazement. The clergyman attempted to make a short speech, but he was seized with a fit of hiccoughing, and was pulled back to his seat by the clown. A number of the spectators then forced their way up the dais, and began to embace the bride, and the rest of the company withdrew amid disorder and confusion.