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Show Fiddler's Lucky Find. Twenty-five years ago City Assessor F. I. Moore of Lansing traded off an old watch for an indifferent looking fiddle, but in spite of its 111 looks Moore managed to scrape considerable consolation out of it. Having sawed it a quarter of a century it beit.g thus "quarter-sawed" the venerable fiddle was in need of repairs, in the making of which Moore discovered, with staring star-ing eyes, while great veins stood out on his moist forehead, that the Instrument Instru-ment was a Slelner, manufactured in Germany in 17(17. Ily the inscription, which was stamped on the innar side, giving origin and dale, the Landing assessor as-sessor finds himself possessed of a piece of property worth probably $1,-000, $1,-000, and we trust he will place it on the tax roll at that figuro.--Detroit Tribune. |