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Show Where Titles Are Cheap. The chearcst country for buying a title used to bo Portugal, says London Truth. Wl.cn a man Is mado a baron or a count there, his patent recites tho service for which tho grant Is made. I was once In Portugal, and 1 had somo curiosity to discover what wero tho services for which an Englishmen Eng-lishmen of my acquaintance had been mado a Portugal baron. I therefore looked tho matter up, and I found that It was for having Introduced Into tho country a new tree. Thero used to bo another plan for becoming a baron, it appears that thero Is or was then a convent which onco had largo possessions. All Its tenants wore, by tho fact of being tenants, barons. Hut the convent had lost Its possessions with the exception of ono farm. It had an agant In Indou. For a very moderate consideration tho agent let this farm to a would-bo tenant. ten-ant. Ho thereforo became a toron; and when he resigned t'.'o farm to tho next applicant ho rctalnod tho title. |