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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. As suitors were not apparently Inclined to seek the hands and affections affec-tions of the daughters, the father advertised ad-vertised that he would pay to the accepted ac-cepted suitor of each daughter a dowry In cash proportionate to the weight of the selected damsel Immediately after the wedding ceremony. A young lawyer law-yer was the first who submitted himself for the father's approval, and having produced satisfactory evidence as to his respectability, he was presented to the daughters. He visited them for a week, and then chose the stoutest of the five, to whom he was yesterday married. When the ceremony was over the lady was weighed and registered 17 stone, the father immediately paying over to his son-in-law a sum of 13,000 crowns. Westminster Gazette. |