FISHING AND MATRIMONY.
Beyond the jfact that young ladies occasionally fisli, or are alleged to fish, for husbands, there would at first sight appear to: be- but little connection between fishing and matrimony. But in same parts at] Scotland the herring season is equivalent, to the London season as regards matrimonial prospects. If the season is a dull one. weddings are fewin number; whereas 'when the season is brilliant young" couples "pair off" with comparative briskness. This year the failure in the herring fishery lias had, it is stated, a very > depressing effect on the matrimonial market at nearly all the fishing
stations. The decrease in the marriages in tho threo months ending September 30th last is very considerable. In the Island of Lewis, with upward of 25,000 in habitants, there were only two marrin^os, and in Wick, with a population 0f13,000, the number of marriages was only, thirteen, being rather more than half the usual total. Over tho whole of I?oss and Cromarty, with about 83,000 inhabitants, there were only thirty marriages. The fishermen, in short, seem.to be displaying the same kind of • wftiness asifcheherrings. —Pall Mall Gazette. " :i: , ;
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2542, 28 February 1877, Page 3
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190FISHING AND MATRIMONY. Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2542, 28 February 1877, Page 3
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