YANKEE NOTIONS.

Evening Star, Issue 6762, 29 November 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)

YANKEE NOTIONS.

A nice pious young man, who tried to steal a kiss from a Washington belle, got his nose so covered with red paint that his pastor subsequently stopped him in the street and discoursed to hitn for ten minutes on the evils of strong drink. A matrimonial difficulty of an unusual character recently threatened to mar the happiness of a newly-joined pair in New York. The fair bride's name was Scroogin, the bridegroom's name was Wun Lung. She was American, be Chinese. When they had been made one the point of nomenclature arose. The blußbiog bride poutingly protested against her identity as a Scroogin being cloaked under the name of Mrs Wun Lung. The husband sturdily rejected the I proposal that he should become Mr Scroogin. A compound of Mr and Mrs Wun LungScroogin could not be entertained. Finally they agreed to sink their differences in [ another name, to abandon all odious comparisons between Scroogin and Wun Lung, and to saunter gently, lovingly through life as Mr and Mrs Smith. May they be happy! In Ohio there is one divorce to every seven marriages. The other six couples are probably boarding with their parents. A wedding party of seventeen, including the bride and officiating olergyman, were poisoned at Bloomington (Illinois), on 11th September, by eating tinned fruit. Three died immediately. A jeweller of St. Louis has rendered himself an object of interest by selling garters with bells attached. Depending from each garter is a tiny silver bell, shaped like a sleigh-bell. "The tinnabulation of this pretty pendant," says the jeweller's advertisement, "sounds delightfully melodiouß. Ladies wearing these garters are accompanied by a musical tinkle as they glide gracefully along.".