A MATRIMONIAL DIFFICULTY.

Waikato Times, Volume xxvi, Issue 2458, 8 May 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)

A MATRIMONIAL DIFFICULTY.

Shk : My love, don't you think you ought to secure a lot in the cemetery betore all the best ones are taken ? He : Why, my .lading, I have a very fine lot over in the Wood borough Cemetery, you know. She : But, love, that is ten miles from hei-p, and Woodborough is a little village. Since we intend to uukc Sprucevillc our permanent home, we shall naturally be expected to have our burial lot here. He : Shall we, dear. Who will expect | us? r She: Now, love, don't be vexing. Everybody of course— that is, everybody that is anybody. Ho : b-it, my dear, you know the lot at Woodborongh has cost me something. I have had ifc decorated and cared for, and it has been used. I could not sell it. I can hardly afford two burial Jots. She : Why, love we must afford to have a place to be buried in, nmsn't we ? He : There is plenty of room there, my darling. But let us not continue the subject. I hope it will be a long time before we shall have to think of being buried away from each other, little wife. She : That is the very reason, my love, that we should have a lot here, so as not to be buried away from each other. I cannot bear to think of being buried anywheie but by your side. He : That is not >\ hat I mean, my pet. But no matter. We shall never be separated -uot even in deathShe : Well, then, we must not put oil looking out a good lot. Let us ride to the cemetery to-morrow, Leon. He : Drtir, de ir, let us understand each other. My folks are buried there at Wooodborougli. She : Exactly, Leon. But my folks are buried here ,\t Spruoe\ illle. He: —My— tins. is painful— my departed wife sleeps there. She : Your first wife may sleep where you plea&e. Your second, sir, will sleep to pleasa herself. She, sir, will have a grave in the cemetery here at Sprucevilie. He : Very well, bny your grave yonrst'lf, then. I hate one at Woodboroug'i i»ood enough for me. If you want to lie by me, you cm come there. She : And if you and your precious first wife want me to lie by you, you cau come and bring her here. He : Yes. Well we shan't come. She : No, and I don't want you to. A man who thinks so hltlo of his wife that hi* would lug her bono3 off tun miles ia the country, away from hor own people, doesn't deserre to be admitted iuto a grave by the side of her. He : Ugh ! I wouldn't go into it admit* tance free, and a deod of the whole grave* yard thrown iv. She :Oh ! You brutal— oo—oo !— You —oo ! He : But who began this ! She : You— oo ! — did— you — oo!— hoo! began to twit me— oo!— about being b— oo !— hoo!— buried before I — oo ! — ever thought of dying— oo ! He : For Heavens sake, don't! don't! don't ! You will alirm the neighbours. She : o— hoo .'—boo .' I'm dying— oo— bury me anywhere— oo ! He : Ve.y well, wife, that settles it. go to Woodbrough Sue : No— distinctly— l don't— Mr Leouidas— Spink ! I go to bed. And if you dont go out with me and buy that lot, you will hear noises iv this house that will make you wish that you were bune-l in the ocean. He : But Caiohnu, consider—— She : Not another word, sir ! We are to be btuied ho re.

Ix Germany (says the St. James 1 Gazette) a very pretty quarrel seems to be beginning between the farmers and the manufacturers. The farmers say that owing to the imports of Cape and Australian Wool it is impossible for them to sell their home grown wool at re* munerative prices. They assert that the price of all the woollen manufactures they use is raised by the protective duties on manufactured articles ; and they therefore claim that a corresponding duty shall be levied on the raw material. The millowners reply that in that case they would be ruined, as, without a cheap and abundant supply of the raw material, it would be impossible for them to compete with England in neutral markets. In Prince Bismarck's present temper, it beems probable that the farmers will end m getting the better of the argument, and that the minufacturers will have to be aar.isßfd with receiving a bounty on exgu;tatiou,