CURIOUS MATRIMONIAL AFFAIR.

Tuapeka Times, Volume II, Issue 54, 20 February 1869, Page 6

CURIOUS MATRIMONIAL AFFAIR.

The ISTew York correspondent of the " Cincinnati Gazette " sends the following :— "A curious matrimonial affair has just transpired in Brooklyn ; the parties are not in high life nor known to fame, but their history is nevertheless interesting. Ten years ago, a couple, recently married, moved from Boston to the City of Churches, where her husband set up in business, and prospei'ed. His business at his office was better than at his home, and his mai-ried life was unhappy, and about five years ago the parties managed to secure a divorce. They gradually lost trace of each other; and during the past year each of them married, and each to a person who has been divorced. The two husbands were thrown together, without knowing their relations to each other, and a few weeks ago the one who had married the divorced woman invited the other home to dinner. Imagine the embarrassment when the happy husband introduced his wife to his friend. Both, were too well bred to have a scene, and so the dinner passed off somewhat frigidly, but with no actual unpleasantness. The recipient of the dinner courteously invited the other_to go home with him soon after and partake of family dinner, little thinking, as it happened, that he was to return the compliment in every particular. It turned out that each was entirely pleased with the arrangement. So much for the intricacies of matrimony.