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Show AN INTERMEDIATE HUSBAND, Among the Moslems divorce is ever simpler than among tho Jews. Nt "bill of divorcement" is necesaaryj but only the short verbal formula o "Veil thyself, take thy marriage portion, por-tion, and go." A wile may be thui repudiated twice and takeu back, bui if the fatal formula have been pro? nounced a third time, she cau oulj be recovered after a fully consum mated marriage with and divorce bj another husband. Thid latter condi tinn sometimes results iu awkwarc contretemps. The person choaen to play the part of intermediary husb-iud ia generally the oldedt. and feoblest poor man . that can be found. For a "con Bideration," he consents to discharge the provisional fuuetion, and engages to divorce the lady on the morrow. But it occasionally happens that the faitfoleej old sinner, having pDckettd and" earned hia fee, refuses to enr-j reiider a pretty and wealthy bride, or only does so. after a much longer usufruct than waa bargained for, and for a further considerable mouoy ransom. As may readily be supposed, such a condition and its incidents have weight with even the hastiest tempered husbands, and co-act with other considerations to protect wives ayaintit tho risk u talalc (repudiation) except for grave and euliicieut reasons. Certain it is that, barring in such cases, divorcts are now quite as rare amoug the Moslem as among tho OhrUliau subjects of the porte, and a hundred times leas common than among our "more civilized" selves. lielore the Caui, however, as before Sir James Hanoen, the law in this respect favors the wile less ttian the husband. The latter may brave Bocial feeling and cut the conjugal knot wheu be likcj, but the wile can only, regain her IrC'-'doiu on proof ul .positive ill-!re:it-menl or for one or two other grouutU of complaint; and even WvdXi at t;ie-ct'st t;ie-ct'st ol abandoning her dowry and trousseau to her peccant huaband. Fmzer's Mjgazine, |