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Show FRENCH CIVIL MARRIAGE. The Curious Ceremonies Which Prevail on Such Occasions. While people dying1 at St. Denis, in France, are to be buried according" to the mayor's ukase, those who desire to be married by "civil rights" have everything in their favor. AL a recent wedding iu the town hall the Palle ties marriages was profusely decorated with plants and flowers. After the mayor had tied the nuptial nup-tial lenut an orator especially engaged in i'aris made an appropriate speech, and the "Wedding Al arch" of lieu-deKsuhn lieu-deKsuhn was played on a piano. Hume of the friends of the bride and bridegroom next suug the waltz from Uounud's "Romeo et J uliettc;"' "IJebe," by llenrion; the "Romance of Maitre lJathclin," by liazin; the "Marche hux Ciioux," of Chateau, and, finally, the duet from the "Ode Triomphale," of Augusta Holmes. The engagement of the orator from Paris is a new departure at "civil weddings." wed-dings." The hint was apparently borrowed bor-rowed f rii is the procedure followed at the funerals of obscure persons whose friends want to have a panegyric pronounced pro-nounced over them, as is customary in France at the graves of notable men. Those desirous of retaining the services serv-ices ol a professional puuegyrist usually usual-ly find him iiva wine tavern contiguous to the graveyard. lie is known as the "Monsieur de Cemeterie," and has always al-ways on hand un assortment of orations ora-tions to suit customers" of every description. de-scription. He only needs a few hints about the life and career of the defunct de-funct and then evolves from his imagination im-agination a biographical sketch so brilliant and eulogistic as to make tho mourners and general auditors believe that in the deceased the world lost one of its greatest men. Boston Herald. |
