A College Wedding

Last Wednesday nigh't there was concluded in tlie M. E. church anotlier of thoso matrimonial alliances that are constantly tending to draw the uations of tliis eavth togetlier in ever closer bonds of Jove and sympathy. The parties were Dr. Alfred Schafer, of Jïrunswick, North Gerinany, and Miss Mary, E. McPherson, late of Washington, D. C. The wedding was unique in the: high, scienüflc and literary attáinmenta of l)oth bride and groom, Dr. Sc-hafer lieing Instructor in Embryology and Histology at Harvard, and Miss Maiy liaving taken lier M. A. degree from Columbia Ünivereity, Washington, in '95. ïlie church had been beautifully decorated with wild and garden flowers and plants. Arches of evergreens interspersed with margurites spanned the main aisles, and a hixuriant mass of palms and ferns quite hid the pulpit from view. Above the pulpit, over the railing of the choir loft, were very appropriately intertwined the fiags of the United States and Gennany. At 8 :80 the bridal party appeared, as the organ peeled forth the blissful Btrains of the wedding march from Lohengrin. Tlie bride and groom were preceded by the ushers, Misses Ella Bennett, Alice Rothman, Ada Stevens, Stella Westcott, Katharine Puncheon and Anna McOmber, and two little goldenhaired flower girls, Hazel and Genevieve Stimson. The bride was elaborately and tastefnlly arrayed in pearl satín, with the conventiunal chaplet of orange blossoms and white, vapory veil. The Maid of Honor was Miss Evalin A. Cobb, of Pittsfleld, .Mass., a former college friend of the bride. Her beautiful costume of pink brocaded silk foimed a pleasing contrast to the gentier shades in the bridal gown. Mr. Arthur M. Sweet, of l'rovidence, R. I., officiated as groomsman. The Rev. Dr. Camdeu M. Cobern, pastor of the Ist M. E. church, performed the ceremony in English with great impressiveness, after whidi the Eev. John Neumann, pastor of Bethlehein Lutheran churcli, addressed themarried pair in Germán, his remarks containing a very happy allusion to the words : " Immota fides," and " ISTec áspera terrent," inscribed upon the family escutcheon of the Dukes of Brunswick. A beautiful and imusual feature of the service was the presentation of the ring from the bride to the groom, a distinctively Germán custom. The bridal party then retired to the parlors of the churcli, where they received the congratulations and farewells of tlieir friends. The bride comes from good old Scotch aucestry. Her father, the Hou. Marcus L. MftPherson, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, was one of the pioneers of tliat state, settling there in 1849. He served two terins as state senator in Iowa, and was one of the delegates who helped noniiuate Abraham Lincoln at the famous wigwam convention in Chicago. He held prominent positions during the war, uiter which he was appointed U. S. district attorney for the western district of Iowa, hut died before the expiration of his term. As was reinarked above the bride's educatioii has been exceptionally exteusive. Slie took her A. B. degree at Wellesley in 1893, spent a year in Zrich, Switzerland, in medical studies, and took lier M. A. degree from Columbia University in 1895. For the aast year she has been attending lectures in the University of Michigan, and working upon the translatiou of a medical treatise, which is now passing through the press. Dr. Schafer is the only son of Cari Schafer, late Hofrath to the Duke of Brunswick, a position which he had occupied for fifty years. After receiving bis doctor's degree in Munich in 1890, he was appointed assistant professor at Koenigsberg, and was then employed in the Anatomical Institute of Zurich, Switzerland. He is now an instructor in embryology and histology in the medical school of Harvard. Dr. and Mrs. Scliafer left for the east by the 10:12 train. They intend stopping at Niágara and other places of interest, and will then sail for Germany, to visit the honored Hofrath, in the ancient city of Brunswick. tfr. Many Of "bhO boys of other days" are in Ann Arbor this week, in honor ■of the 25th aamiversary of President AmgelTs .bolding of the Univereitireiras. The oíd tcnvn has outgrown tlroir expectations in almost every Instaince and the places they'once knew are mot to be foond. Even tlie professao-TB ihave so clitanged that but ; ew facee remain Who were known hen they were in college. Tcv inany it is a ead experience, to: others. it is a marvel. There is a --ery deep feeling in this city in regard tö tho raising of salaries of city officials at this time. Had the salary of the city treasurer been placed Tvhere it belobged there would liaTe been little criticism, but to raise officials -whoso places could be supplied and wéll supplied, too, over ïinj orer again at tlie old salary was not 'the thiaig ft o do these haxd time?, everyomj is grooning under tlie pressure of slack trado and small profltB. Tlie council should be caxeful, ïor the peoplo aro In no pleasant mood over tliis act of theirs. These are dx times for extravagance. There -vill be a reckoning at the polls lor it. Mrs. Kíi i-liara Conrath, widow oí the late Chías. Conrath, of Geelde ji.vc, dicd Saturday at the residence of her daushter on Church fit., aged 73 j-l'.i in :i nioiillis. Funeral services were held Monday from the residence. There hvas not a large crowd' present at Han-is Hall i-atunl'ay nigti lut it was fne of the fine.st littleen■bertainments glTn in the city In a long f i me, and the object was Buch a ■vTOirthy eme 1 1 1 .- ■ t it is to be regretted1 Hiat bo liuli' wafi realized from it. Ber. i:!m i Dennen will hola 6ervices in the FoteteiB school house next Suinday nt three o'clock p. m. Mr. Demifii hafi recently graduated irom the Episcopal Theolog-ical School in Cambridge, M;uss., and is now one of he clergy of St. Stephen's cliurch, Boston. He is here for a. brief vacation. He graduated irom the IJ. of M. thrce ycnrs ago. Whlle'a student here he had charge of St. Andrew'te MísBlon .Sundaj" School at Fosters. The Boaird of Eeview whicli held its sesstons last ■sveek, aggregated 388 years, and its com'bined weiglifc "va 1,323 pounds. The average age was 48 yeai-s, aind average weight 165 lbs. The two youiigest men were J. A. Boyle arad J. M. Feiner, each! 35; th6 oldest P. 'OHeara 65. Mr. O'Hea-rn ivas the heaviest, 200 lbs.; and strange to say Joim Tt. Jliner was the light welght of the boiard, 135 lbs., but jota's hcad will wedgh wltb any of them. C. H. Van lyne, the senior Jit. student -uiio gave the Courier r,ome ■rory infcerpBtipg letters last year, about lus trip a-ivheel through Europe, ivas married on Friday evening last, to Miss Belle Joslyn, ut Chesani-ng. The couple sail for Europe to-da.y, and wlll .spend their honeymoon in a novel way. Gouig to tlie head -waters of the 5lue Danube, probably in Switzerland, they wlll take a canoe and iloat down thai historie and beautiful stream to the Black Sea. Mr. Van Tyne expect to find time to g-ive Che COurier another series of letters about Avhat he seos on tlie journey. The windöws are full of íire crackers and o-t her deadly material for celebratiug- tiie glorious Fourth. The boys will liare them, consequently the enterprising morcliant puts hinieelf ia lüié to' eaxn an 'uoneti penny. It is Imteirestlng to see the íiappy smile oí the average city pbysician, as be gazos thro-ugh the wiiuknv and sees the elegant out-lay oí material for making future surgical -.vork a necessity. Tiie fond morher sees the fire crackers with a shudder, and for once wislies all her Txiys were eirls. Áxíd then she thlnks tliat with the advent &í the new womau al] tíhiis will be cihanged, and that jeritaps by next the girle will dmand to'y pistols and fire crackers, instead of dolls and cheiving gum. On Monday July 6th, a handsome train of M. C. R. R. Coaches and' "Wagner Palace parlor cars will leave Detroit station at 12:30 noon, íor Buffalo, for tflie accommodation of teacüiers jid thir friends, tO' the National Teatíhers' Association Meeting. It will reaoli Niágara Falls about 5:30 and Buffalo 7:00 p. in. same evening. For special parties west of Detroit, extra coaches will be arranged for in connectïon withl thüs train, th,at willgive the teachers an opportunity of taking breakfast at hottne amd Buppgf at Buffalo,