Some Eccentric Weddings.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2642, 14 January 1908, Page 5

Some Eccentric Weddings.

" Princess Anetta," a Swiss girl of 18, 'ho came into the world wi'hout arms or legs, was woed and wedded at Geneva by Joseph Starker, a handsome young German, a few months ago. Many years ago a remarkable wedding was celebrated at Berkshire, in which the bridegroom had reached the mature age of 85, while the bride was but two years his junior. Each of the bridesmaids, who were all spinsters, had passed their seventieth birthday; six grand daughters of the grooiu strewed altar, and four of the bride's grandsons chanted a wedding lay composed for the occassion. About two years ago Mr Andrew Nt-llis, aged 92, and Mrs Elizabeth Cdssel, a blooming bride of 83, stood together before the altar at Howard City, while 43 of their great-grand-children attended the nuptials. Still more recently, Mrs Hervey, a bride of 95 summers, became the wife at Penzance, of Mr Vincent, a mere boy of 86 ; and quite recently came the report of Jan American wedding, in which husband and wife numbered 201 years between them, each having survived a century of life. But Cupid is even more in his element when he is linking December with May, or with even a less advanced month. Thus we read with little surprise (it is no use being surprised at any of Cupid's vagaries) of a blind Berkshire woman of 90 being led to the alter by her ploughboy, aged 20 ; of a gentleman of Worcester, far gone in his ninth decade, wedding a girl of 18; of a maid of 16 linking her life with that of a gentleman of 94, " who had £50.000 " ; and of a soldier of 95, who had served in King William's wars and had a ball in his nose," placing a wedding ring on the finger of a child of 15.—'Strand Magazine' for November.