Show wanted more than his fair share of wives abbo abbe domenech Dome the french priest who labored in the early carly part of the nineteenth century left nn an interesting te record of hla his work in n book now out of print that was published in london in 1853 one amusing incident lie he recorded concerned a presbyterian minister at brownsville Browns ville who stirred bestirred be himself to dispose of tits his three marriageable daughters the minister noting that no one sought the hands of his daughters preached ft a sermon on the subject of marriage amplifying the text in genesis increase and multiply lie ho spoke with eloquence and warmth on the bliss of the by hymeneal meneal state and ended by offering his three daughters with of fortune for each to whomsoever would espouse them ile he added that he would receive the names of the candidates candI cIntes after service A wag in the congregation did not wait for tile the time proscribed prescribed by the minister but shouted from his pew put my name on the list for two kansas city star |