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ODD WEDDING PLACES. Although the vast majority of brides and bridegrooms are quite content to have the ruptial knot tied in church, there are a fow who profer it fastooed in an odd environ- mant. To be spliced" on a swinging. Impere would not be everyone's choice, you that was the scene selected on one occasion by two couples of circus performers. The contracting parties. gorgeously strayed. climbed on to two norial parchés, aus on each side of the ring, while the officiating a pyramid in the centre and conducted the service. Iu 1897 a wedding occurred in a still more |OLE PROPRIETORS of TAKA- curious and dangerous" "place-in a lion's Boston Zoo. Something like SIMA, OCHI, MUTABE, KOJO, csgo në NAMAZUTA, SAYO, SHINNEW four thousand people witnessed the ovgat, and KAMTYAMADA Colleries.
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Methodist clergyman conducting it. The revoraad gentleman, however, stood outside the cage, and, at the proper moment, the bride and bridegroam followed the keeper into the cigo, which contained two large lions, and tha steel-barred door was closed bahind them. The whole thing was over HEAD OFFICE —TOKYO.
in fire minutes, but it must have seamed BRANCH OFFICES:—
years to the couple, considering that the lions walked round the cage staring at Nagasaki, Moji, Karatau,
bha unusual sight, and then laid down, Wakamatsu, Kobe, Osaka. Shanghai, Hongkong, Hankowronzing alternately. On another pecasion a couple Asd the romantic idea of be og married into the head of the TØL, ANDREERS for abou: IWASAELcolosant figure of the Goddess of Liberty: Dodo;-; & BO 5th Ed., Western Union, which stands in New York Harbour. The head being a hollow chamber, the fent wus mado feasible and wad duly carried out, after the bridal party had mounted the three hundred feet of narrow stairs to roach their destination.
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Marriages are now and again takes place on horseback, ono such boing between an eloping couple some years back. While |a service was in progress in a village church the noise of clattering hools was heard. An official going to the entrance found a man and woman sicunted on palpitating animals. After some persuasion, as the pair ware
RESIDENCE, by European Firm. armed with necessary authority, the clergyFFICE, BUDOWN PRIVATE man promptly married them; the lovers not Please apply to
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Case of CNA MAI' Office as it ended they put spurs to their
2035 horses and galloped away into the darkness.
Hobgkong, August 24, 1910 Another lastanco was aforded by a country gentleman, who was so enamoured of
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bor, 1910, on which dato DIVIDEND back of his favourite horse. The bride WARRANTS may be obtained on applica-being also a keen ridor to hounds, at once agreed, and she and all the rest of the tion at the Company's Office.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Com-wedding party appeared similarly mounted, pany will be CLOSED from the 1st to the The gentlemen were red coats and top-boats 12th day of September, 1910, both days and the Indies riding habits; when the knot had been tied a regular hurt breakfast was SHEWAN, TOMES & Co.,
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Carriages, too, hare sometimes been CHINA SUGAR REFINING CO. LD. brought into requisition as marriage places
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An American couple, whose honeymoon was to be passed in Europe, conceived the potion of being made one just before the best sallet. Hiring a carriage and pair, and accompanied by magistrate, they started for the wharf a few minutes before? to stup's departure. As the borgen were tearing along at a rapid rate the magistrate wont through the marriage ceremony and the couple left the vehicle hoaband and wife. They had scarely time to scram ble on board the liner so it started on its A requires NEW OFFICES Accom
The TRANSFER BOOKE of the Com-voyage across the Atlantic. A Melboume pany will be CLOSED from 17th to 30th merchant was also carried in a carriage, his nuptia being celebrated in an atmos August, both days inclusive.
phero of romance. At thetime be was more JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD., or less hors de combat in a private hospital,
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but even thora Cupid mnde Eis, presence Hongkong, Angust 12, 1910.
know much so that the merchant and one of the nurses fell in love with one another and determined to marry. The purse managed to smugglo hor patient into a curiage, in which they drove to a neighbouring villago, where the minister came out to the marriage and if it they were married. But a moru odd con- veyance in which to got spliced was a perambulator. The bridegroom had Lecu crippled and deformed since birth, and to meet the difficulty the registrar married him in bis pram, in which ha was afterwards. wheeled home by the bride.
THE DIVIDEND DECLARED for the Bali-Year ending 30th June, 1910, at the Rate of TWO POUNDS STERLING Fer Shaze of $126 is Payable on and after MONDAY, the fud August, Current, at the Offices of the Corporation, where Shareholders are requested to apply for Warrants.
By Order of the Court of Directors,
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was turned into a church and a happy though 'nervous couple made husband and wife therein. During the Chicago World's Fair same yunts as the Feriis. Wheel, of which the Big Wheel at Earl's Court was a car relative, was one of the chief stric tions, and an enterprising couple elected to by married in it. Accordingly they were united two hundred and fifty feet abovo the heads of the gaping and interested. crowd. And, as there is no accounting for tasty's, it is not surprising to learn ergh the bowels of the earth have been chosen for a wedding. Such an event in a co mize would be a matter of fach affir in comparison with a marriage in the Mam- nioth Cave of Kentucky, where wonders and creepiness have been pictured by many pens until the reader has been made almost nervous by the descriptions. Nevertheless, 632 this ecria cave was the scone of a knot, Lying. It was performed by the light of torchen, which made the darkness of the cave, if anything, more intense, the spot selected being something like mine wiles. from the entrance to the cave, and only reached after crossing Styr-like waters and TAILORS AND OUTFITTERS. crawling on bands and knees.The Globe.
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