BOGUS NOBLEMEN.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 2181, 8 July 1890, Page 4

BOGUS NOBLEMEN.

The numbei'3 of bogus noblemen who ha\e traded on the credulity of the wealthy American is something incredible. Many American girls of education, fortune, and social prominence have contracted hasty mvirria^es with psfeudo noblemen, only to discover within a few months after their marriage that they had allied themselves with men of a birth even more plebeian than their own. Nobody seems to think it worth while to make a business-liko inquiry. Still, there are quite a number of men of high birth and social standing in the whole world, who having gone a ' cropper,' have gone to America for the purpose of retrieving their shattered fortunes. In the head waiter of the Grand Pacific Hotel, in Chicago, is Baron von J , who in Berlin some eight years ago was a dashing lieutenent of the Zeithen Hussars, the present German Emperor's favourite regiment. A Count von B , formerly an equerry to one of the German Royal Princes, and son of an ex-Ger-man Ambassador, was a short time ago acting as a commercial traveller for a particular brand of whisky; a Count von F , a member of one of the most powerful families in Germany, has been earning a dollar a day as driver of a tramcar - } while a Count; of Funikirchen is employed as moneytaker at a low-class variety show. The brother of an English baronet and heirpresumptive to his ancient baronetcy, 14 working as a day laborer in a Florida saw mill. A well-known English diplomatist has a brother who is a porter in a merchants warehouse at Talla* bassee, andl the heir of an earldom died.

at Now York in poverty while employed iv the mailing department of a large newspaper. — ' Court Journal.'