Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1879 — Josh Billings on Marriage. [ARTICLE]

Josh Billings on Marriage.

Sum people marry bekasethey think wimnaiu will be scarce next year, and live to wonder how the stock holds out. * Sum marry to get rid of themselves, and discover that the game was one that two can plaj at and neither win. Some marry for love without a cent in their pocket, nor a friend in the world, nor a drop of pedigree. This looks desperate, but is the strength of game. Sum marry in haste, and then set down and think it carefully over. ! * Stun think it carefully over fust, and then set down end marry. No man kan tell jist exactly wha calico has made up her mind to do Calico don't know herself. Dry goods of all kind iz the child of circumstance. * * / George Butler was, on Friday, acquitted of the murder of Pres. Hawkins at a dance in Brown County, in 1877. Be has been * fugitive from justice since that time until about two month ago, when he was arreted at Bedford. * -j -