OCR Text |
Show A California millionaire whose daughter will shortly marry a French count ia to pay the groom one hundred hun-dred thousand dollars cash down, before be-fore the ceremony-takes place, that being the price demanded by the can-descending can-descending foreigner for consenting to share his title with an American born young woman. The ' figure seemB high; but the investment may not prove to bo such a bad speculation specula-tion after all. A gnoil many of the6Q European counts turn out to bo very clever cooka or stylish hairdressers, and should the ambitious papa's mine incontinently neter nut nr Iia out swamped at the Btock board, a first class foreign artist in victuals or hair will be found mighty handy to have about the house. Such fellows command com-mand fabulous salaries in San Francisco Fran-cisco when times are AlibIi, aud they are always able to make a pretty good living when they are willing to set about it. They are a little too much given to beating tbeir wives, however, when the day of adversity couipb, ti make desirable sons-in-law aa a general gen-eral rule. |