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Show An Ingenious Miser,. A miser recently died in Faris, and his ways of living were certainly novel in the extreme. ex-treme. He boasted that his breakfast never c.'St him more than a half penny, and that it always consisted of bread and butter, or biead and fruits. This was his economical plan. Every morning he bought a sou roll of bread. With this he went to one of the markets, mar-kets, and if it was winter, he bean by tasting the country-woman's butter. A bit of this was put in his mouth with a bit ot bread previously depo.-ited. Somehow the butter was always had, or had some flavor that he did not like. Not to be rude, he swallowed it, but made no purchase. In summer he fared more luxuriously, especially in the time of cherries, the strawberries, the plums and the giapes. "Have you got cherries to-day?" "Yes." "'How do you sell then. ?" "Six sous a pound." "Can I taste them?" "Certain'y." He then takes two or three cherries, eats them witn a mouthful mouth-ful of bread, and says. ' Heu ! heu 1 they are a little sour," and so he passes on to the next stall. Before he got half way down he used to breakfast perfectly. Of course the women who sold fruit aud butter at the various markets soon began to know him, and, amu-ed by his eccentricities they seldom sel-dom refused to let him taste their goods. He was then 75 years old. and worth 500,000 francs, having never bte ik lasted on dry bread or at a cost exceediug a half penny. |