Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1888 — A Six-Year Bridal Trip. [ARTICLE]

A Six-Year Bridal Trip.

From the Albany Argut. George Sigourney married Mies Imogene Henriques in Buffalo in 1382. Mr. Sigourney is the son of a wealthy Californian, while Miss Henriques’ parents, though not poor, were in only comfortable circumstances, and lived in a small town near Buflalo.Wbat led to the attachment I do not know, but it is said it was a case of love at first sight, with a speedy marriage. The cards read after marriage; w Mr. and Mr?. Sigourney. At home Thuesdays. Sacramento, Cal., be-

ginning May 10, in the year 1888.” From 1882 to 1888 is a long time to catch them “at home,” but they have beep upon one perpetual bridal trip for six yeais, arriving in New York last Mend »r-

Five days after their marriage they were upon the high seas, bound for Eng'and, Mr. Sigourney had plenty of money, and going over planned a six years’ trip with his young and pretty wife. When they reached London both wrote home to their parents that they would not be back for six years, and Mr. Sigourney made arrangements with his banker to forward their mail wherever they might be. After going through England, Ireland and Scotland they fairly covered every point of interest in France, Germany, Italy, Prussia, Austria and Russia. They visited Greece, Danmark, Rome, Turkey, China, Japan, sailed along the Nile, visited the Canary Islands, Borneo, Naw Guinea. Persia, and spent a year traveling through Asia. They went to Australia, and from there to Africa, and thence over to South America. Commencing at Patagonia, they traveled north, visiting all the principal places in Peru, Chili, Bolivia, Brazil, Argentine Republic and the other countries of South America, and recroesing the Pacific Ocean again took up their journey to England by another route. While abroad Mrs. Sigourney became the mother of twin boys and two girls. The twins were born at St. Petersburg, Russia, one of the girls in China and the last child in Brazil. • « * Bismarck told them there was only one place in America he would like tj see, and that was Niagara Falls. Mr. Sgourney told me it was impossible to even estimate the number of miles he had traveled. When I asked ni-n how much it had cost him, he said: “Somewhere in the neighborhood of $75,000,” as unconcerned as if it had been 75c. When be married his wife in 1882, she weighed but 102 pounds; now she weighs 165. Both are darkly bronzed in face from their long journeyings in hot countries abroad, but are healthy, and, as Mrs. Sigourney said, archly: “We ran up to Albany this week to see your capital, leaving the babies at our hotel in New York in care of a Russian nurse, who manages the twins, while a Brazilian nurse looks after the girl born in her country and the girl born in China.” On Saturday they left for their home in Sacramento, taking with them the aged father and mother of Mrs. Sigourney to see the parents of her husband.