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Show AA LIVELY TIME.-A wedding party at Bristol, Rhode Island, having, together with the clergyman, assembled at the house of the expectant bride, a widow of forty, waited vainly for the bridegroom, a bachelor of thirty. As he still tarried she ordered in a cask of beer, some wine, ice-cream, pies, fruitcake, and other necessaries of life. She had also invited the Town Council to attend the wedding, which they did. The company waited and so did the waiters, but no bridegroom came. But this soon ceased to be a matter of any importance, for, so far from interfering with their enjoyment, it seemed to promote it. They began throwing the cake and ice-cream at each other. They cast the stove out of doors and followed it up with the chairs. A pie struck the clergyman on the head and he went out and wept bitterly, calling the police to the place just as the happy widow, waving her bank-book over her heart, called upon them to eat, drink, and be merry all they wanted, and when that was gone to get more.-Detroit Press. |