Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1878 — An Alaska Romance. [ARTICLE]

An Alaska Romance.

According to the Cleveland (Ohio) Leader, the following story from the Portland (Me.) Transcript has the advantage of being founded on fact; “A young man who was in Alaska some four years ago fell in love with the only young lady on the island, a girl of fifteen, who was possessed of extraordinary beauty; and whose hair fell below her knees. But he was unable to communicate the * old, old story’ to her, for she did not understand a word of English, nor did he speak Russian. In his dilemma the arrival of the priest on his once-in-two-years’ visit was a godsend. And to him made known his love. The priest, knowing the young man to be possessed of a high character and a fair fortune, thought it was a lucky chance for the young lady to escape from a life of such isolation, and he willingly persuaded the girl’s mother (her father was dead) to consent to the match. But the young lady herself was hard to be persuaded. She argiied that she had never spoken to the young man who expressed such a desire to be her husband, and had only seen him twice, and he had been bn the island only forty-eight days; but her objections were over-ruled, and the marriage took place. After living in Alaska for several months, the young man brought his bride to his home in Cleveland, Ohio. She was astonished at the fashions she saw, and declared that nothing would induce her to wear herhair otherwise than flowing as she had always worn it. But before twentyfour hours had passed her mother-in-law had persuaded her to try the effect of braids around her broad and shapely head; and now she dresses as much in the fashions as any lady in Cleveland. Last year her husbandT went to Alaska .again and brought home the young sis ter, who is, eleven years of age, and promises to be as beautiful as tjieplder. The mother, bereft ofbotlt her children, still clings taker home on one of the islands of Alaska.”- . < The State of Connecticut has passed a notv law, a law that is designed, according to the Boston Globe, to crush out hydrophobia and diminish the number of sinall boys. It has been anqounced there that the sum of fl will be paid for the tail and ears of a dog, ana forthwith the war has commenced. Big dogs and little dogs. Spitz, mongrel, mastiff am! terrier, are all alike, hushing their notes of joy or distress in a ppeedy death. - < ntf, '—3 * Snoring is now politely described as indulging in sheet rausje.