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Show AOnLEHEX IX AMEKICA. HEunKKS ov mair eubopean families fam-ilies WORKI-NU AT IIUMWJ: OCCUrATIO.NS. The number of bogus noblem'U who have traded on tho credulity of tho wealthy American, says the .London (Xurt Journal, is absolutely incredible. ManyAtucrlcangirliof education, fortune and prominence have contracted hasty marriages with pseudo noblemen, only to discover, dis-cover, within a few mouths after their wedding, that they had allied themselves with men of blrtli even more plebeian than their own. Nobody No-body ever seems to think it worth while to make a businesslike inquiry. in-quiry. Still there are quite a cumber of men ofhlgh birth and social standing stand-ing in the old world who, having gone a "cropper," have gone to America for the purpose of retrieving retriev-ing their shattxred fortunes. Tho head waiter at tho Grand Pacific Hotel in Chicago is the Baron von J , who in Berlin some eight i ears ago was a dashing lieutenant of the Zeitben Hussars, tho patent emperor's favorite regiment. A Cou nt vou B .formerly an equerry equer-ry to one of tho German royal princes, and con of .an ex-German ambassador, was a short time ago acting as a commercial traveler travel-er lor a particular brand of w bisky; a Count von F , a member mem-ber of one of the most powerful families fam-ilies in Germany, lias been earning SI a day as driver of a tramway car; while a count of Kunfkirchen is employed as a nionty takerata low-clxvi low-clxvi variety sbuw. The brother of an Knglish baronet and heir-prcsuuiplho to his ancient baromtcy is working as n day lalor-erin lalor-erin a Florida sawmill. A well-known well-known English diplomatist has a brother who is a jorter in a icir-ihautV icir-ihautV warehouse at TallAhfevce, aud the heir to nn earldom died at New York in luverty whlls employed em-ployed in the mailing department of a la.-ge news-paier. |
