He Gave Her Away

As everybody knows, Richard j ner, the great composer, married the j voted wife of Hans von Bulow. The story goes that the latter one day came to Waguer, tor whom he had the ! est possible admiration, and said : "Master, I wish to make you a little present. I have noticed your preierence for my wife. Take her. She is yours. I am proud to think that I have something Ibat you will consider wortby of anee. ' ' And so a divorce was procured and the marriage took place. Later, when Von Bulow was in this country, he laughiDgly said to a well known woman of this city, "You know,