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Show and this Includes practically the' respectable re-spectable male population of Germany to write to him in order to be put into communication with American heiresses with fortunes up to four millions. All la to be private, photographs are to be interchanged, inter-changed, and the whole thing is strictly "honorable." The untitled heiress has been so much on the hunt for nobles that the transactions trans-actions have, as it were, passed into the market, and the fortunes of rich young ladies are quoted upon the matrimonial exchange. There is nothing new in the situation. Since the days when the world thought only of marrying and giving in marriage until the flood came there has always been a marriage market; but it has been left to our own days to make the thing into a matter of advertisement and quotations. It is the low water mark of the vulgarization of the institution of matrimony; and, rightly or wrongly, the proceeding has lately identified itself particularly par-ticularly with American women of fortune. for-tune. Nobody can mistake the tendency of the last ten years in the matrimonial market. It has been an openly avowed barter of money for titles; and it has perhaps per-haps done more than anything else to vulgarize the marriage ceremony. London Lon-don Globe. Great Dlen'i Ear. The ears of great philosophers and statesmen have been noticed to be large and sloping. Mr. Gladstone's ear has a curved, hanging lobe, lies closo to the head and has a sloping position. The Marquis of Salisbury's ear is massive mas-sive aud well proportioned, aud has also a sloping position. 1 ear of the great Napoleon was rather aall, well formed, with curved lobe. Pall Mall Gazette, IleirrMM In the Market. It is charactcriitic of the present day that a German paper should contain ac advertisement itfering to supply rich American women to needy Germans of position. The advertisement may be and probably is a mere swindle; but that such a thing should be advertised is in itself ! significant. The advertiser appeals to Gauuuma havijnir iit:ac ct cr.'l uOaiuocs |