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Show MARRIAGE LAWS. They Arc Easily Broken la Austria n4 Kvftdcd, Too. The great difficulty in Austria is not to have the Gordian knot cut, but how to get another tied, says a Vienna correspondent. cor-respondent. Most of the people belong to the Catholic church, and according to the terms of the law, a Catholic can never marry a second time divorce or no divorce unless his first wife is dead, lint suppose lie becomes a Protestant? Prot-estant? That will not help him in the least; the law says that be who was a Catholic at the time of his marriage must, in the matter of divorce, be treated as a Cathollo forever after. What divorced couples, who wish to try their matrimonial luck again, generally gen-erally do is this: They make a little excursion to Hungary an hour's ride on the railway declare themselves to be members of another religious denomination, de-nomination, and they can forthwith be married again; for the Hungarian marriage mar-riage law is very different from that of the sister kingdom. It's a case of "where there's a will there's a way," |
