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Show Marriage Oddities. E. J. Lupson of Great Yarmouth, who has attended over 11,000 weddings as a parish clerk and given away about 1200 brides of ages ranging from 1C to 60, has published under the title of "Cupid's "Cu-pid's Pupils" a record of his experiences, experi-ences, relating many Interesting and qalnt marriage Incidents. Ho recalls one marrlago that was solemnized sol-emnized eight years after the banns were first published. It was postponed from 1S7S to 1SS4. Among "romantic marriages"- Mr. Lupson mentions those of a clergyman'3 son to a poor country laborer's daughter, daugh-ter, and of the rector of a parish to tho daughter of a farm laborer forty-two-years younger than himself. A comely girl of IS, who married a negro, is referred re-ferred to. A queer wedding party was that fn which the bridegroom was a weak stripling, the bride six feet high, and hcr brother, who accompanied her, a giant of seven feet six Inches, weighing thirty-four Btone. Among the brides whom Lupson has given away haa'o been two spinsters married to dying men and a spinster from a workhouse married to a tramp. Lupson recalls the fact hat one Sunday Sun-day morning the clergyman had to publish pub-lish the banns of fifty-eight couplos. He tells of quaint blunders by brldeu and bridegrooms; of a couple who found they had not enough to pay the marrlago mar-rlago fee, and had to postpone the wed-dlnr; wed-dlnr; of a bridegroom who borrowed money from his friends at the last moment, mo-ment, and of others who paid the fees In coppers. A member of a waiting wedding party was once found smoking his pipe as ho listened attentively to the prayers of the communion service, and ln another cao the bridegroom urged Lupson to toll the clergyman to hunry up, as ho was perishing of cold. One unworthy bridegroom was so drunk that he had to Reea chemist and take a long sleep before thc clergymen would unlto him to the girl of his choice. London Express. |