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Show Wanted More Than His Fair Share of Wives Abbe Domenech, the French priest who labored in Texas In the early part of the Nineteenth century, left an interesting in-teresting record of his work in a book, now out of print, that was published In London in 1S53. One amusing incident he recorded concerned a Presbyterian minister at Brownsville, who bestirred himself to dispose of his three marriageable daughters. The minister, noting that no one sought the hands of his daughters, daugh-ters, preached a sermon on the subject sub-ject of marriage, amplifying the text In Genesis, "Increase and Multiply." He spoke with eloquence and warmth on the bliss of the hymeneal state and ended by offering his three daughter, with $3,000 of fortune for each, to whomsoever would espouse them. He added that he would receive the names of the candidates after service. A. wag in the congregation did not wait for the time prescribed by the minister, but shouted from his pew: "Put my name on the list for two." Kansas City Star. |