Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1877 — Wedding Girts. [ARTICLE]

Wedding Girts.

Then least six persons, possibly more, in New York City engaged in the purchase of superfluous wedding presents, three of whom deal exclusively in a certain class of articles. One of these dealers, interviewed by a reporter, carries on business in the Bewery, where he has a large store ostensibly for the sale of unredeemed pledges, but his most lucrative business is the pihchase and sale of wedding presents that ire only so much old lumber to thepwnera, When asked how lie conducted the busings, he replied: “You see when a young couple belonging to good fapiilipe get their friends all make them presents, and, nMe times out of ten, the young folks find themselves in possession of certain kinds of household stuff enough to last several generations. The young wife often discovers that she has a set of jewelry for almost every day in the month. Why, some time ago 1 did business with anewiy-my ried couple, now living in Lexington avenue, where the young bride—and a beautiful girl she wks -had eigjit operaglasses. us course she didn’t want them all; so I bought five of them. Here’s one of them left [showing a small but handsome pearl-mounted opera-glass]. Silverware and china are other things that neWiy-ritarried pcftple generally flha they have toqmuchof. but 1 don’t du>atoything in that way. Thete Ire other men ilk the, business who deal in that and nothing else. I confine myself to jewelry and trinkets.” “But how do you know on whom to Call, and when?” Ydu see, the marriages, are ajl published in the phpers, and, whete it is a Wedding between two rich folks, a report is made of it, and a list of the presents given. You see, when I have got the names and residences lam all right. O, no; I don’t go to them as soon as they ' are * married; that wouldn’t do. They’d kick *ybu out of the house if you went on suoh business for the first few weeks. You have to let them settle down to housekeeping and find out how much useless stuff they nave got, and even then if you call they may not be willing tn sail. The husband generally is, but the wife is sure to object at first. ‘O, no, dear,’she’ll say; ‘I can’t sell that. You know Aunt Martha gave, it me, and it wouldn’t be right to sell it,’ and so on with everything else; blit, after seeing them two or three tijnes, they in with the idea, and are willing to sell anythhig they don’t want.” , “I suppose you purchase such articles very cheap ?” “ Well [laughing] you may be sure I don’t give more than they are worth. You see, 1 oftenhavo thosethings in my store for a year before I sell them, and on some things, such as fans, I often lose mopey. Sometimes I sell things I have bohght in that way to gentlemen wanting to make wedding presents; for you see, I buy from rich afid they arO first-class goods. . When . I get ‘ them they are as good as new, but- It can sell them f6r much less than they cost at first, and people who can’t afford to pay high prices come to me for their wedding presents.”—W. X. Mercury. —A singular suicide recently occurred in Drowana, Australia. A Greek, who had become insane by reason of poverty and misfortune, poured a quantity of molten lead down his throat. He.died in agonies, and after death a lump. of lead nearly half a pound in weight was taken iroEiTihis stomach.,.' •