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Show PEICE LIST OP WIVES. Hi Persia women "marry out" on contract, con-tract, returnable to their parents in "good order and condition" when the contract is up. The purchase price is, like your room rent, payable In advance. ad-vance. But Persia is not the country where wives are bought. Here Is a partial list of the world's market: Kafflrianl, South Africa, price of wife, two to ten cows; Ungada, South Africa, Af-rica, box of cartridges and six needles; Karak. pair of old shoes; Tartary, Asia, her weight in butter; Tirmo, pound of Ivory or Jackknife; Kamschat-ka, Kamschat-ka, Asia, from one to ten reindeers; Mlshenls, Asia, from one hog to ten oxen; Ceylon. Asia, box of matches; Navajo, New Mexico, upward of twelve horses; . Unyoro, South America, merchandise mer-chandise on the Installment plan; Uper-nivlk, Uper-nivlk, Greenland, knife, whetstone or file. New York Herald. |