SEA Demacratic Wad, x * Bellefonte, Pa., December 5, 1890. o Sip— A Cabbage Romance: ‘What Some Big California Vegetables Lead To. Romance and the rose go hand-in- hand,and the dainty violet and the mod- ast lily have often opened the portals of Tove, but it has been left to California to produce the only cabbage that ever led to a real romance that wound up in a wedding. Eighteen months ago, acceording to the unquestionable statement of Gran- ville W. Alexander, » grain merchant in his city, there stood in front of the door af one of San Francisco's real estate deal- ars a cabbage from San Bernardino @ounty weighing ninety-two pounds,and said to be the largest ever rai-ed. While shis production of Ca ifornia’s greatness gas on exhibition the Oregon express fanded from England two Britons, so fresh from their native soil that they walked along the dry and dusty streets with surtouts down to their ankles and sheir trousers rolled up to meet their epats. They wera both bound for Aus- tralia. Passing along they espied the wonderful cabbage. Both men stopped short. Up went two single eye-glasses. “By Jove, old boy, but that's a doos- adly large cabbage, doncherknow.” “Doosedly large,” replied the second surprised son of Albion; and then they Both went in and inquired of the real es- tate man where it was grown. Both men were wealthy. Both men were cousins, and while unknown to them the busy hand of fate was now at agork. It only seemed to the curiosity aeekers that in deciding that life would be misspent unless they saw the land wpon which this cabbage grew, they were only obeying the idle whim of idle gentlemen in going to San Bernardino | to do so. And so they went. Englishmen as a rule are not garrulous, and these two friends were no excep- sion. Once in San Bernardino they were directed to the farm where the cabbage 1 They remained two weeks. At e end of that time one of them said to the rancher : “I want so much of your land in a -aertain section. How much is it orth 7” “Four hundred thousand dollars It was paid for. The other friend said to the rancher : “Your daughter is very beautiful, and Tlove her. [ want to make her my wife.” Two months aco there was a wedding at the ruch. There were a number of people present, friends of the family, and the groom threw aside his tac- | iturnity long enough at the supper to tell how tie enhbage had led to his hap- piness.—“an Francisco Chronicle. Wives Who Are Breadwinners. “Women who have husbands to sup- port them often take it as a mater of course, and perchance even complain that they are not supported in ease and affluence. It might be well tor such to look atanother side of the mat- ter sometimes. It has been estimated by an employe of the United States ha- zeau of |.bor that there are 27,000 anarried men in the city of New York gho are supported by their wives, less than 7,000 of whom are in menial ser- «ice. The modistes are in the majority. This includes dressmakers and milli- @wers, many of whom own property, fome being very wealthy, and all well to do. The boarding house keepers gank next in number; the professional women, who embrace doctors, lawyers, dentists, aurists, writers, teachers, mu- diciang, lecturers, designers, painters and embroiderers, come third. Then ¢here are the shopkeepers, who, it 1s said, make the best providers.— Rural New Yorker. AN ARKANSAS INVENTION,—Oppo- site Memphis, on thé Arkansas shore, and about ten miles inland, I asked the