OCR Text |
Show Married In a Baby Carriage. A remarkable wedding took place at the Bristol registry office yesterday. The bride, a prim woman of 43, wheeled into the office in an old fashioned perambulator, per-ambulator, the bridegroom, a crippled man of 45, who from his birth had not been able to walk. He followed no occupation. oc-cupation. When supported on his feet, bo contorted were his legs that he was only 36 inches high. He asked that he should be married in the perambulator. Besides the usual questions the astonished astonish-ed officials asked the bride if she really knew what she was about She replied that she was fully aware of what she was doing, and she wondered what the crowd of people outside were laughing at, as it was only a wedding. The parties par-ties made the usual declaration as to no lawful impediment to their union, and they were duly married, and as the bride wheeled away her newly won husband hus-band the happy couple were followed by a large crowd, who pelted them with rice. London Telegraph. |