WEDDING ANECDOTES.

Colonist, Volume XVIII, Issue 2018, 11 January 1876, Page 3

WEDDING ANECDOTES.

When the collector- of rare and curious specimens of insects,, flowers,; and minerals, finds new objects of interest, he sticks a pin in them or puts, them' in alcohol, or labels them, and then siis down to count his collections, and see what he has actually gathered. In the same way we. may stick pins in the various experiences of life, and thus collect a museum of rare specimens. The present collection of wedding anecdotes are : specimens of eccentricities at this trying hour that have come across the writers path; We see plenty of curious epitaphs in cemeteries ; let us look at some wedding scenes as 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 the couple before him the solemnity of the act. "I hope, Dennis," he said to the coachman, with his license in his hand, " you have well considered, this solemn step in life." "I hope so, your reverence," answered Dennis. ••• . " It's a very important step you're taking, Mary," said the minister. " Yes, sir, i know it is," replied Mary, whimpering. " Perhaps we had better wait a: while." ; . " Perhaps we had your reverence," chimed \ in Dennis. .., . ~,.;,,;, ;.,.... • ,:.,-■; The minister,.hardly expecting such,..aj personal application of his exhortation, and seeing the five dollar note vanishing, before' his eyes, betook himself to a more cheerful aspect of the situation, and said:: : " yee,.of course, it's solemn and important, you know, but it's a very happy time, after all, when people love each other. Shall we go on with the service ?" " Yes, yonr reverence," they both replied, and they were soon made one in ,the bonds ■ of matrimony, and that young minister is now very careful how he brings on the| solemn vow of marriage to timid couples. , A party came to a clergyman's house one evening to be married. Everything went on harmoniously until the woman came to the word Obey in the service. Here a balky scene ensued. l{ Never—never!" she said. " I did not know that word was in the service, and I will never say it!" ''Oh, dear," remonstrated her partner, ■" do not make any trouble now. Jußt Bay it—even if you don't mean it. Say it for my sake—for your dear John's sake !" " Never—never!" insisted the high spirited dame. " I will not say what Ido not mean and I do not mean to obey. You must go1 on, sir," she added to the clergyman,. 11 Without that word." " That it is impossible, madame," replied1 the minister. '" 1 cannot marry you unless you promise to love, cherish, and obey your husband." "Wont' you leave us for a little while• together?" interceded the young man, " I think I can manage her after awhile." i So the minister went back to his study, and finally, at a ' quarter before ten o'clock, there' ' ' i -~~-Came a'tapping— _ '• As of' Borne one gently rapping. And the mild-mannered Benedict informed ■ the parson that at last, after a long wrestling1 of spirit, his dear Jane had consented to say obey. But how that compromise was brought • about, no' one' ever kne.w. I have often heard this-'same clergyman relate how -after <a wedding ceremony oh one occasion, which I occurred in his - own parlor, ' the lwhispere,d''.toItfhisJ bran approached the door," Mary, hare you got any small change ?"

NEW STJS'.MAKIINE CABLE; On 6th 'the'Ableridari War-ship Tuscarora left Honolulu.(Sandwich Islands) on a surveying expedition for-the ne<r submarine 'cable. " The following is an extract from orders )( issued ,by Commander J. N. Mills, w^ho,,commands. the vessel: —"You will proceed to the Oahu, thence to the Phoenix Islands (about 1,700 nautical miles), making soundiugs at the usual distances apart, and whenever the bottom requires it, such additional soundings as may be necessary. You will proceed to Levuka (Western Fiji)l, or some other convenient port of that group (about 1,100 nautical miles), passing as close to the south-east end of .New Caledonia as may he proper. Thence proceed. to Sydney; from Sydney you will proceed towards North Cape, New Zealand, making such soundings as may be considered advantageous en route j and from.that part towards the Fiji Islands, taking soundings with a view to laying a telegraphic cable between these points." The Tu'scarbra is expected to be absent from San Francisco about four or five months.— Otago Guardian.