Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1883 — Matrimonial Infelicity. [ARTICLE]

Matrimonial Infelicity.

Mr. Oliver Cassilay has only been married a few years, but his appreciation of his wife has already begun to depreciate. There is a discount of 20 per cent, on it already. Sunday afternoon they were taking a walk, when she requested him to carry her dolman, at which he grumbled exceedingly. “Before we were married,” said Mrs. Cassilay, bitterly, “ you used to say there was nothing in the world you would not do for me, and now you growl when I ask you to do a little thing.” “ Yes, it’s all very well to talk that way, but if I had known before we were married that you were going to load me down this way with cloaks, umbrellas, hats and things, whenever you got a chance, I would have advised you to wed a hat-rack.” “If I had done that,” retorted Mrs. Cassilay, with telling sarcasm, “I would, at least, have had an hat-rack-tive husband, which is more than I can say now.” —Texas Siftings. Probably the only church in the country which still draws its revenues after the ancient fashion, from a tax on all the property in the parish, is the old church of Lancaster, Mass., which is 250 years old, and which in all that tiine has had but eight pastors,