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Show Miser Durand's Fortu- A rather remarkable misery rand has just departed this lit' town of Rodez. He was 86 and according to the French es fortune he was a triple mill magot being worth in cash ' 120,000, or 3,000,000 francs, used to go about the town like cant so much so that the pF: offered him alms, but were p' for their proffered generosity. J known to have had but one suit made clothes during his long ? residence in Rodez, but on theda: he went to draw his dividend local bank he usually donned a S intended to be ceremonww. seemed to be a comproniiM blouse and a sack. . The miser lived alone in a JjS the doors of which were do and occupied himself with m clothes and. boots, cooking, linen and counting up his nioi; last task being his daily deliM cipal pastime. Durand has left and the bulk of his bullion to fish monger-the widow Nover sometimes visited him. To hu tives, some of whom are in miser has not left a penny. 14 London Telegraph. |