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Show . AN EXTRAVAGANT YOUNG MAN. He Celebrate His Wedding With a Dinner t ISO a Plate. Philadelphia, Nov. 8. Harrison Caner, who recently, on attaining his majority, came into a fortune of over a million dollars, bequeathed by his father, a blacking manufacturer, was married to Miss Emily Thomas Cotket. Mr. Caner gave a bachelor's dinner at the Bellevue Friday evening that, for sutnptuousness and expense, completely over-shadowed any prepared in Philadelphia Phila-delphia before. Including the host there were ten gentleman present, and the cost of the dinner was about $1,500 or $150 a covor. .Rising to an apex in the center of the table was a circular mass of pink and white chrysanthemums. chrysanthe-mums. This was banked with a heavy wreath of the most delicate pink orchids, among which were thickly entwined exquisite maiden-hair ferns. Outside of this wreath was still another, massive mas-sive in proportions. This second wreath was entirely composed of white lilies of the valley the first seen in the city this season, thousands and thousands of them. There was still a third wreath bordering the others, composed of immense im-mense velvety pansies, clustered together, to-gether, and here and there through the rich, gorgeous blossoms shone the soft light of diminutive French lamps. The crowning trinph was achieved by placing plac-ing en tho table at irregular intervals , a few small silver candelabra. Between these, and twining about them, were lavish quantities of maiden hair fern, while scattered through the latter lay luscious black Hamburg grapes. The various services of china used were the famous Crowned Head, the pink Limoges, the Berlin Shells, the Sevres, the Royal Worcester and Cafe le Turque cups. |