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Show A SOUTH AMERICAN DIAMOND I WEDDING --SHARON PAUPERIZED. PAUPER-IZED. - A Brazil correspondent of an Albany, Al-bany, N.Y., paper gives a description descrip-tion of the wedding in Brazil of the daughter of De Souza Cabral, the diamond prince and billionaire of Rio Janeiro, with a Kentuckian named Throckmorton, who is a six mi), lionaire. According to this veracious reporter, Cabral estimates his pile at $50,000 000,000. With such a for-; for-; tune at his comnmnd tlio Rnlifminn could easily get up a wedding regardless regard-less of expense, and ho has done it. Here are a few of the items: 1,000 sandal wood boxes, with lock and key of solid gold, to contain the written parchment invitations, costing $150 eaoh; 200 music boxes, at $1,000 each; music for the occasion written by Liszt, $25, 000; the adornment of the wedding room, $10,000,000; the bill of flowers, $50,000; camel's hair shawls for a carpet between the drawn room and drawing room car, $.308,500; Mme. Cabral's gifts to the bride were a solid gold dinner set of 2S0 pieces costing 1,000,0001,000 yards of and evening costumes iSFegp-tificate iSFegp-tificate of deposit on the Bank of England for 1.000,000. Her lather presented the bride with a magnificent town and country house in all the leading capitals of the world and the more famous watering places, all thoroughly furnished; also a fine' Steamship with Bailors under contract for ten years service; one dozen milk white Arabian horses, and a necklace consisting ot thirty ot the largest and purest diamonds in the world, u'jon eaoh of which a fantastic face was cut. This necklace coat Cabral $116,-000,980.88. $116,-000,980.88. After this magnificence the description of the bride's dress seems almost tame. We are told that her dreas was of point lace, flounced, or rather garlanded, to the waist with Btringsof seed pearls, with the voluminous vo-luminous train edged with a filigree of gold thickly set with diamonds. Her neck was oircled by her father's wonderful offering, besides which there were diamonds banded on her hair and in bracelets on her wrists. She was certainly the most blazing beauty the Bohemian ever gazed upon. up-on. In order to cap the climax, a dozen Sevres vaies of the 8 ze of an American peach basket were filled with gold coin, from which the hack-men hack-men were invited to help themselves, for their services, which they did in the most liberal manner. After reading this discripfion, Sharon and the other Nevada millionaire mil-lionaire paupers will aink into humble hum-ble insignificance. |
