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Show A Fine looking- Couple. Mr. Marion Crawford is an exceedingly exceeding-ly handsome young man, and is as perfect per-fect physically, with his six feet of manliness, man-liness, as a Greek, statue. By incessant physical culture he has doveloped each muscle to perfection, and he has distinguished dis-tinguished himself as a brilliant fencer. His wife is as perfect in her way, and one of tho most beautiful of American women. She has a 'statuesque figure that is lithe and graceful as a reed. Those who know Gen. Berdan remember remem-ber liis wonderful gray eyes and his superb physique, both of which are femininely fem-ininely duplicated in his daughter. When Gen. Berdan went to Turkey, after superintending the construction of his musket invention in Russia, be was accompanied by his daughter. It was there that Marion Crawford met the lady he was fortunate to wiu for a wife. Miss Berdan created a sensation in official offi-cial society in Constantinople by hep beauty and grace of manner. It was there that the wedding took place which united two of the handsomest natives of the United States. Mr. Crawford is a nephew of Miss Julia Ward Howe. Pittsburg Dispatch. |