Wedding Anecdotes. Humours Attending the Tying of THE Marriage Knot.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 567, 8 January 1876, Page 2 (Supplement)

Wedding Anecdotes. Humours Attending the Tying of THE Marriage Knot.

WnRN the collector of rare and curious specimen* of insects, flowors, and minerals, finds new objects of interest, he sticks a pin in them, or puts them in alcohol, or labels them, and then sits down to count his collections, and see what ho has actually gathered. In tho same way we may stick pins in the various experiences of life, and thus collect a museum of rare specimens. Tho present collection of wedding anecdotes are specimens of eccentricities at this tiying hour that have come across tho writer's path. We see plenty of curious epitaphs in cemeteries ; let us look at some wedding scones f»s strange as any of these : A young clergyman, at the first wedding he ever had, thought it was a very good time to impress upon tho couple before him the solemnity of the act. 'I hope, Dennis,' ho said to the coachman with his license in his hand, 'you have woll considered this solemn step in life.' ' I hope so, your reverence,' answered Donnis. ' It'n a very important step you're talcing, Mary,' said the minister. ' Yes, sir, I know it is,' replied Mary, whimpering. ' Perhaps wo had better wait a while.' 'Perhaps wo had, your reverence,' chimed in Dennis. Tho minister, hardly expecting such a personal application of his exhortation, and seeing tho five dollar note vanishing before his eyos, betook himself to a moro cheerful aspect of the situation, and said : ' Yes, of course, it's solemn and important, you know, but it's avory happy time, after all, when people love each other, we go on with tho service ?' ' Yea, your rovarenre,' they both replied, and they were soon mado ono in the bonds of matrimony, andthatyoung minister is now very careful how ho brings on the solemn view of marriage to timid couples. A party came to a clergyman's houae ono evening to bo married. Everything went on harmoniously until the woman came to the word Obey in tho service. Here a balky scene ensued : ' Never — never !' she said. ' I did not know tlut wo"d was in tho service ; aud I will never say it \' ' Oh, dear/ remonstrated her partner, 'do not make any trouble now. Just say it — say it, even if you don't mean it. Nay it for my sake— for your dear John's sake ' ' Never— never !' insisted the high spirited dame. ' T will not say what T do not mean and I do not mean to obey. You must go on, sir,' she added, to the clergyman, 'without that word.' 1 That is impossible, madame,' replied the minister. ' I cannot marry you unless you promise to love, cherish and obey you husband.' ' Won't you leave us for a little while together ?' interceded the young man. ' I think I can manage her after awhile.' So the minister went back to his study, and wrote on his sermon for an hour and a half, and finally, at a quarter before ten o'clock, thei • Cime k Upplnst— ▲a of 'Oitii on* gently rapping/ And the mild-mannered Benedict informed the parson that at last, after a lon^ wrestling of spirit, his dear Jane had consented to say obey. But how that compromise was brought about, no ono ever knew. I have often heard this same clergyman relate how, after a wedding ceremony on one occasion, which occurred in his paWor, the husband whispered to his bran new bride, as they approached the door, ' Mary, have you got any small change?'

' Why, you ranoal,' said Dr. Radcliffe, the great physician, to a parlor who donned him, ' do you protend to b* paid for ■uoh • piece of work ? Why, you have spoiled ai\ pavemant, and than covered it OTer with earth to hide your bad work.' 'Doctor,' laid the pavior, ' mino i* not th« only bad work the earth hidei ' ' You dog, you,' said T>r. K»doliffe, 'you area wit; you must be poor. Come in, and you shall be paid.' A competition wu lately held for the purpose of appointing fit persons to some of the Government offiaes in England. Onu of tno candidates inadvertently spelled tru word Vouico with two n's, thns Vennicf. The examiner, a deter man, but not »lwaye a correct speaker, sternly inquired, ' Do you not know, sir, that there is but one hen in Vonico ?' ' Then e^s must bo very noarct iherfi.' was the ready reply. The candidate pansed. (ifiorge, dear, don't you think It is rathe nxtrurngitnt of you to eat butter with th-t delicious j»m ? — tfo, love — eoonomioal ! Siinn piHoe of bread does for both 1 Thompson ii not going to auk any mnr conundrums. He recently asked his wif« the difference between his bead and a hog's ht ad, and ahe said them war noa«. Ht says that U Ml lk« ligkt iMW«fi