A PHOTOGRAPH OF ROMANCE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2713, 30 November 1889, Page 6 (Supplement)

A PHOTOGRAPH OF ROMANCE.

A nicuiA'-KOMANTtc incident occurred ;i few day:* aj,'o at llului'rf, thu well known Vioniiii photographer (mys thu Vienna. correspondent of tins Telegraph). An elderly gentleman, apparently a fortirjner, ■went toliavo his portrait ~ iken, but ;is he hail to wait a few minute.,-; for i-he usual preparations, an album of specimen photographs was handed to him. All at once .he empioyre-i in Ihe next room heard ,i shriek, anil, hurrying to the salon where the s.''\inger was waiting, thuy found him lying senseless on the floor. Whuii hu ca.no to himself ho explained that the allium at which he had been looking contained a photograph wliioh hu was convinced was that of his daughter, whuin he had not, seen for '2\ yc-irs. 'J'in: fo.ituies wer.: m> lilio fliose f<l his wif tli ;t hu could not be mistaken. lie Haul Ili.it unfji'tunato unHM-iioCituoi's Iv, ! «.:• i.111). l!i -I iiiiu to leave her '2\ yeai'.i • ~.-| r' ' , ■■'.i'.n"< tl) •• ' "■■ wiii-i-cjljoiiiri of his family a u:\v ycais l.ii, 1 , , but ii.u! nut been able to diniujv.T in:y tract. ~i them. Ho had lfiu« tijuim acc[uired the conviction that tlioy v/ere bul.ii dc;al. Tho phototcrapher told him that the portrait in queftioii wus ihdl <ji a. !::;iulicr of tho jjinnofortu in \ i'lin.i, In-r naiiw and address i! wa.-i ai •rant.'i-d rh;ifc tilt) sM-atsLfet, Hun. , M . • ~of New York, tihuid'i tall 0:1 her the next :lny, uad that in the tiiciintiino she »liould be warned of lii- int'MulfiiJ visit. Tint Indy turned out to be his d.iilifhter, and has already left Vienna with licr i;ii her for t , "! United StuLes. He is a weidlhy speculator, and tho Door iiinsiii-nii-tfiJM inw suddeulj* found herself heirt-s to a, forl.uuo of suueiid iniiiions ofdolla:>-. Herr M . . ~ pii.ii- to his departuie. presented Heir Hub.T willi a splendid diamond breast-obi.