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Show Weighing the Mayor. A mayor, particularly an English mayor, Is traditionally a man of weight and substance, but there is only one municipality that Insists that his honor get on the public scales and prove It Of tho thousands of quaint and curious customs kurvlving In "the old country" this Is, perhaps, one of the most odd. The mayor of High Wycombe has to be weighed on November 9 of each year Inauguration day and this custom cus-tom haa been observed for about six centuries. The mayor-elect walks at the head of a procession consisting of the councillors, the beadle and the mace bearer. He Is clad lu cocked hat, silk stockings, blue coat and knoe breeches. Upon reaching the town hall, the mayor la placed upon the scale, by the bead constable, and a record of his avoirdupois Is solemnly made In a book kept for this purpose. Harper's Weekly |