Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-06-27

Boston Evening Transcript.
UNIQUE WEDDING GIFTS
From the Washington Times.
Among novel marriage portions. that
with which Herr Duchatschek. a native
sf k~oniggratz, lowered his daughter
must find place. says the New York
Herald. Her weight in silver WAS the
promised dowry, 30 on the wedding
morn. before proceeding to church. h
fore the assembled guests. The scales
registered sixty-two kilograms. a
weight which brought the lucky bride
Il sack OF 1850 silver coins.
Similar instances of a brides dowry
being In direct ratio to her corporeal
back n citizen of Huntington, Conn.
who possessed a daughter OF the alb
normal weight of 400 pounds, agreed
to bestow p her a portion of IS
for every pound she weighed. This
offer brought forward a bold sutton In
the person of a Mr.. Marang. who gal
lantly led his weighty and we'll dow
cred bride to the altar. In Peru. too.
the brides dowry consists of her own
weight, not in gold or in silver, but
in-Sugar.
Weight, too. influenced Mr.. Bait. a
4SsA9 ASAt LAG
he informed his daughter that. as he
admired big men. her dowry should be
graduated by the excess of her nus
bands bodily weight above her own
this excess to- be calculated i'm gold.
The day previous to the wedding the
parties went to scale, and that the
husband was a man after his father
in-law's heart can be ssumed from
the fact that he received with her more
than 100000.
Girls Pluck Is Rewarded.
An old Lancashire (EnEland) paper
gives an amusing account of a small
farmer who agreed to give his daughter
for a marriage portion as many
guineas as she could walk miles In a
day. The feat came off I'm the neigh
borhood of Manchester. and the sturdy
lass ramped more than seventy miles.
When, however, time for settlement
arrived 1t vas discovered that the ia
Their was not worth as many shillinRs
as he should have paid guineas, where
upon a subscription was opened by the
ne~ighboring gentry. who admired the
girls pluck, and an amount was COL
lected that amply compensated her for
her exertiOn.
A wealthy London solicitor whosa
daughter had received an va
education promised on her becoming
engaged to give her fifty times the
amount she could earn in a year by
her W evertions. Although she found
that her extensively acquired accom-
plishments were more or less Of q drua
on the market. h managed to gfve
music and drawing lessons to earn suf-
f1cient to entitle her to receive on her
marriage the handsome sum of $4,000.
Another father, who had but sinai
faith in his prospective son-in-law's In.
dustry, agreed to give his daughter ON
her marriage an amount correspondents
to that which he bridegroom should
make in the course OF twelve months
He had. however, counted without his
host. for h young man, CHANGING to
obtain some good stock exchange infor-
nation, tabled q sum that the othap
could only cover on his daughters
sweetheart agreeing to advance the
deficit.
On receiving a very handsome tin
from a customer q waiter at q fash
ionable london restaurant begged to
thank the giver In his daughters name.
and, upon being asked for an explana.
ton. said that he had agreed to be-
stow upon her az a wedding portion An
amount equivalent to the tips he should
subsequently making inquiries he wa
Tod by the waiter hat his daughters
dot had worked out at more than S70A
very original Vas h idea OF q bar.
Der who. on his daughter becoming en-.
gagged to his assistant. determined Il
eeulat her dowry by her sweetheart's
ability. A certain sum was accordinr.
Nv set aside. from which q fine was de.
Quoted every time the fianEe CHANGED ia
cut a customer when welding = ra.or
This had the desired effect Of puttina
him upon HIS mettle, and his reputafion
a. an easy shaver soon 10 tncreasedthe
shops clientele that on his dauRhterss-
marriage Figaro's extra takings NOR
than compensated for the money re
was called pom to disburse.