Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1891 — An Inspiration of the Honeymoon. [ARTICLE]

An Inspiration of the Honeymoon.

“That was an awful fate that befell Lot’R wife,” said Mrs. Hunnimune, looU >g up fron her Bible. “it was,” said her husband; “but it could not have befallen you.” “Why not? I would just have been as likely to look behind.” “But you couldn’t have turned into a pillar of salt.” “ Why not ?” “You would have turned into a pillar of sugar.” And yet there are some pessimistic pe >ple who contend that marriage is a failure. While Queen Victoria was in western France returning from Grasse, recently, a telegram awaited her at one of the stations where a halt was made. The postmisti 63s refused to give it into anybody’s hands but the rightful recipient, and all the diplomacy of the royal train was put in action to induce this zealous functionary to waive rules and regulations in favor of the Queen of England. Madame only yielded to the pressing solicitations of General Ponsonbv and a secretary of the British embassy. i

The king of all the lobsters was caught off Monhegan, Me., the other day. He was thirty inches long and wfilched fourteen pounds.