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Show Her Flesh "Was Her Fortune. An amusing method of securing the marriage of his five daughters has been adopted by a wealthy tradesman In Berlin. Aw suitors were not apparently Inclined to seek the hands and affections affec-tions of tho daughters, the father advertised ad-vertised that he would pay to tho accepted ac-cepted suitor of each daughter a dowry In cash proportionate to the weight of tho selected damsel Immediately after the wedding ceremony. A young lawyer law-yer was tho first who submitted himself for the father's approval, and having produced satisfactory evidence as to his respectability, he was presented to tho daughters. Ho visited them for a week, and then chose the stoutest of tho five, to whom he was yesterday married. When the ceremony was over the lady w.as weighed and registered 17 stone, the father Immediately paying over to his aon-In-law a sum of 13,000 crowns. 'Westminster Gazette. |