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Show MADE OCCASION FOR FEAST Elaborate and Peculiar Ceremonies Always Fcrm Part cf Wedding I in Armenia. An Armenian wedding Is net readily forgotten. It lasts for several dayu and starts with a general meeting of friends and relatives, who are enter-tained enter-tained by a baud of minstrels and dancers until the arrival of the groom. In tho m.dst of tho uprcar It Is Armenian Ar-menian etlqurtto that th "hrppy" man shall totter In with faltering loot-sc?3 loot-sc?3 .-. 1! ' ivcheil faco 111 hai Just hern ' M'rtid v Ith a llttl" ? drr) In order to go through tho c. ile.l of preraraUon IIo U r.-i p.b'My eIuvcJ, atC Uien adcrr.d wi'h tho vaiious glith ffnt by th" brkV -' ct His brothTs n xt fall upon him. and wIMi such ltor la he spt-d..y ainmli forth i nature na-ture mado hi :ii Then they co-.pftp-, ly reololhe rl' lr. new ca-r.i nt 33 b-t thdj can a dlScult l'j . 11 "r.e romembers that cuttcm ' i-es thrm to hcl I candles In their right hnnd3 throughout tho operatlor V'c mnlna tertnlr.a'es v"'i bin-fires, bin-fires, more mule and much d-r.eing. Upon tho following ovenlng the bride puts In her appeal anco by riding to church the bridegroom walks The priest meets thorn at the porch and reads them n very cnionnbli llttlo homily upcr. tho oblUatl r.s ttu aro ibout to undertake fin y next -larch In procession to the altar, whero their forehead i are bound together with 1 pold chains Asphalt on Streets cf Babylon. That asphalt was kr.own to tho ancients an-cients Is a well attested fact, Its un as a binder for mueonry In Ilabylon being in point, but of Its uso othor than this wo know nothing. I Strabo tells us that as early as 2000 ' II O the streets of Ilabylon vero I paved, and so, t,o. prosumably woro I tho great roads leading out from tho many gates of that city liabylon was ' situated In tho aLuvlal plain of Meso-I Meso-I potamta, and Its building material was I almost entirely clay, either ps such I or In the form of bricks. It seems rather doubtful that theso latter were used to pave tho streets at that early dato. Asphalt wns abundant abun-dant and much used in building operations, oper-ations, and It does not tern imptob-abh imptob-abh that It w utllliod to Improve the meets Dr K W Oudgr In Scl- I enc J |