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Show - -?T" ' wa waraaauewaa a aiwi tumvym waaaaaalaryfc n fcwai rVANDEniNO DOLLAR. An Ctcellont lUnmpln nf How aTast t Mout-jr Travels. Thirty years ngo It was common for school-boys, whan hard pushed for a so cnlled composition, tn Wrilo nil Imaginary autobiography nf some erry day object, a coin, for oxninple, or n l.nife Bomo of thn fiction thus invented was undoubtedly stningornnugh, but not Inuilt of It coulil havo boon stranger than the adventures of ' .1 gold piece ns 11.11 rated for fact by ono of j ouroxrlifliigns i aiqiears that a young 1 woman In New J01 sey had n gold dollar that sho especially valued f r tho sako ot a litoiioRnilii Inscrlbvd upon IU Tho coin was attacheil to a bracolct by a oliHln. Oiinntetiiug in l-ebruaiy, after n sleigh rule, Its owner missed it, nnd tho broken clmln sIhiwchI plainly how It had dis npiicared Hearcb was ht onco made, but wllhout avail Flnidly nil ndvertlsement ini'tlliorjp of a loafer nbout town, who said th it he had found thn dollar bolow tho Mops of tho sleigh Iho morning after tho 1 itlo, and hud spent It for whisky at a saloon Tho f 1 lends nf tho voung lady determined tollnd Hie koerjsnko if possible Tho bartender bar-tender lemcnibcie I receiving the coin, but hod paid It in n bull In r. who recollected paying pay-ing It to a drmei 111 Tre-ntnu The address of Ihn drover wns secured, and letter wniton tnhlni, requesting n 10-plyutonre 10-plyutonre It soon mine, and contained the Information that ho had purchased a ticket to l'iiltudclphlR with tho money on tho very dsy tin butcher guvo it to him, and that tho ticket ngeut mado somo ro-mark ro-mark about the monogram. 'Iho search was continued. The agnnt remembered thn dnllai,uud said that ho laid it aside lor n few hours, but that It was forwarded to Philadelphia with tho dally accounts The icceltcr of tho New Jersey trceipts nt Philadelphia was next corresponded with 'Iho beautiful monogram mono-gram bud In fit imtii etl, but tho money had been deposited in tho bank The cushliT was eommunlcntod with. His ntlontlon had been cullod tn thn Initials ou the b .ck of the dollar by ono of the clerks, nnd he had Instructed hltn toplnco ltnsldo for it few weeks. Unfortunately, In tho Bbsenco of Iho clerk, n gcutlcmnn desiring several bundled dollars In gold, prcparu- I lory to n Cullfoi nla tl Ip, had beer, furnished ' with tho amount, nnd tho llttlo plcco bad, in some way, been mixed Willi that sum and gono west wind. Tho goutlctnnti's nnmo was futii.sh.od, nnd u letter was sent I tn him. The temnlmlcr of tho spring nnd sum mer passed without tidings Finally, liow- 1 ever, 11 communication wus reiclvcd from 1 thogeullemun staling thnt tho letter of In- qiiliyhnd just inachod bltii, oil necotlutnf 1 some mistake 111 tho oddroas, but thut ho Mill had the dollar lu his ionsnssliiii. Thu ' Initials were tln samn us tlinsn nf it Jodtig friend of his, noil he had l.opt Dim colli on I thut uecomil. On receiving Ihn punter direction he 1 omptly returned tb gnld dollar mi pei-stently pei-stently searched for, tbn cunutis blstnrv whoso wanderings iiilnnl an excellent xampleot how fast innney tratvls. |