Marriages

About persons out of every 1000 marry every year in England. Of each 1000 men who do marry. 139 have been married before, while out of each 1000 women who marry, only 98 are Martin eau, widows. The average age for men to inatry is 27 ‘7. and for women 25 5 years More than half the total number of women between the ages of i«; and 45 are unmarried the betting on a woman getting married is 52 to too; between the ages of 20 and 25, 18 to 100 MARX, between 25 and 30. 15$ to 100 between 30 and 35. 3! to 100 between 35 and 40. and 2i to 100 between 40 and 45. After 60 it is id. to £1. Married women, on the average, live twovears longer than unmarried, and they average 4 children apiece, most being born in February and fewest in Tune. About 5 per cent, MARY have —ist, no children at all. Marriage anniversaries are 20th, china;; 25th, silver;; 30th, cotton;; 35th. linen; 40th. woollen; 45th. silk; 50th, gold; 75th. diamond. Among the aristocracy 44 per cent, are selfish enough and ignorant enough to marry their cousins, which scientifically—is a crime, and brings its own reward “to the 3rd and 4th generation.” In London such criminal folly is discountenanced, the per cent, being only i£. (Sec DECEASED WIFE’S SISTER above.) Men who marry before they are 20 generally marry women of 23 men of 25 generally marry women of 24; men of; immense age generally marry mere children, as they are themselves in second childhood. The mortality among bachelors between 30 and 45 is very heavy, 27 per cent.; amongst married men of pose ages it is only 18. The word * spinster ’ owes Mascagni, its use to the fact that jn olden days the law wisely did not allow any woman to marry until she had * spun ’ a complete set of bed-linen. Morganatic marriages arc a German Institution, by which a per- son or magnificent birth can condescend to marry an inferior without lo of dignity to himself, or of honour to her, but from which he can subsequently free himself if he wishes to marry some one in his own exalted position. Marriage myrtle for members of the Royal Family comes from the Queen’s private garden at Osborne. FREDERICK, the English novelist and naval officer, was bom in 1792. In 1806 he was appointed midshipman on the ** Imp^rieuse ” (commanded by the celebrated Cochrane, afterwards Lord Duntlonald). In 1830 he retired, having begun his literary career by publishing “ Frank Mildmay" in 1829. Some of his works are “Peter Simple,” “Midshipman Easy," “ Master man Ready," “Poor Jack,” etc. He was the author also of a code of signals for the Merchant Service. He died in 1848. His daughter, Florence Marryat, is a well known writer. The, war-song of the French Republic, is generally believed to have been composed in 1792 (certainly the words were) by Rouget de l'lsle, an officer in a garrison at Strasburg, when some volunteers left for the war against Austria and Pru ia. It was then called “ War-Song of the Army of the Rhine,’’ but is called the Marseillaise because Marseilles volunteers first sang it in Paris. MOOR was fought in 1644 between the royal forces under Prince Rupert and the parliamentary forces under Fairfax and Cromwell, who won the day. the Roman writer of epigrams, was born in Spain in A. D. 43. He went to Rome in Nero's reign, and Domitian made him a tribune. He died in Spain in 104 A.D. His celebrity is founded on his 14 books of epigrams depicting life at Rome. Sir Theodore, the man of letters, was born in 1816. He has written translations of the “ Poems and Ballads of Goethe," dramas by H. Hertz and Oehlensclilager, “The Odes of Horace," “ Dante s Vita Nuova,” etc., and wrote the “ Life of The Prince Consort,” for which the Queen supplied the materials. He became rector of St. Andrews University in 1880, the year he was knighted. Harriet, the English authore (of French Huguenot descent), was born in 1802. She wrote “ Illustrations of Taxation and Poor Laws and Paupers,’’)" Society in America," “Deer brook" (a novel), “Eastern Life, Past and Present," a condensation of “ Comte’s Positive Philosophy,” and *' History of England," etc. She died in 1876. Dr. James, the great moralist and theologian, was bom in 1805, a brother of * Harriet Martin eau.’ He was Principal of Manchester New College from 1860 to 1885, during which time he wrote most of his lucid, graceful, and spiritual works. Karl, the German socialist, was born in 1818, and studied law and philosophy at Berlin. He edited the “ Rheinische Zeitung," and then in Paris, the “ German-French Annual, and a newspaper, "Forward.” He fled to Bru els in 1848, becoming head of the Central Committee of Socialists. He wrote “ Das Kapital," and died in 1883. Stuart, Queen of Scots, was born in 1542 at Linlithgow Palace, and in 1548 was sent to a French convent. In 1558 she married the Dauphin, and after his death in 1561 she returned to Scotland, allowed her half-brother, the Earl of Moray (a Protestaut) to be first minister, dismi ing most of her French courtiers, who were Rom artists, as she was. All that was wise, she was popular, and her court a brilliant one, but she was very foolish* to marry either Lord Darnley, who was weak, or the Earl of Both well, who was a scoundrel. In 1568 she had to put herself under Elizabeth’s protection, and the latter showed her little sympathy. She managed her love affairs capitally, and Mary managed most of hers very foolishly. She was beheaded in 1597. She wrotc some poems. Pietro, the composer of the popular “Cavallcria Rusticana,” or “Rustic Chivalry,’ was born in 1863. The opera was written for a prize competition, and has been performed in almost every language in Europe,