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Show Paid for Bride by the Pound. In tho village of - Kolked. in Hungary, Hun-gary, It has since time Immemorial been customary for the bridegroom to give the bride's parents some compensation com-pensation before the wedding. The other day a peasant farmer named Kotvoes and the parents of his pretty young betrothed could not come' to terms as to the amount, and so they agreed to make the mayor arbitrator. That good man, a cattlo dealer, valued the bride at 60 cents a pound. As she weighed 86 pounds x tho happy bridegroom bride-groom had . to pay only $51.60, and thought himself lucky to get a wife so cheap. |