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Show Since the financial reaction and depression of ;873, some of the methods adopted by our countrymen country-men to make a little money have been remarkable aud peculiir. An enterprising genius in Rochester baa hit upon the plan of watching the ileath noticeB in the newspapers, and sending a circular to the "uearet relatives" of the deceased. Hi circular runs thus: "My triend: Learning that death baa recently rrMvoved one whom yon wieh to re member, I take thia method of inform ing you that I am publishing a mumorial whioh makes a very ap- i propriate crntueut for a bereaved hoaie." The memorial iathenelubo- i rately described, with the assnr-mi e that it cannot fail to give entire cans-faction. cans-faction. In order that the bereavid may run no ti-k in sending the money, tbe Kochettlerite makes what be styles thia "unparalleled t ffer" (mifspelling the adjective) that he will forward thd memorial on receipt ot 10 cents, on condition that its full price, 50 centH, be promptly mailed if it be approved; an bypotba-is which he can scarcely entertain even for a moment. The total cost of the memc-nai memc-nai must be at the moat from 1 to 2 cents, ao that the sympathetic gpniua is r;ure to nutKe Bomething without ti.e aecjiul remittance, ot which, of course, he han no expectation. |