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Show A MISER WITH MILLIONS. Ltaraad, of Rodaz, Who Had Aloaa aad Lavart tha Ollak ol Gold, Paris Dispatch to London Dally Tolegraph. A ralhcr remarkable miser named Durand has just departed this life in town of Kodei. lie was 86 years old, and according to the French estimate of fortune he was a tripple millionaire, his raagot being worth in cash and paper IiaO.OOO or a,O0li,(IO0. Durand used to go about town liko a mendicant so much so that people often offered him alms, but were grinned at for their proffered generosity. Tie was known to have had but one suit of tailor made clothes during his long years of residence resi-dence in Kodcz.but on tho days when ho went to draw his dividends at the local bank ho generally donned a garment intended to bo ceremonious, which seemed to bo a compromise between a blouse and a sack, Tho miser lived alono in a big house, the doors of which were doubly locked, and occupied himself him-self with mending his clothes and boots, cooking, washing his linen and counting count-ing up liis money ibis last task being his daily delight aud principal pastime. Donaid" has left his house ami tho bulk of his hullion to a female fishmonger tho willow Noverand who sometimes visited him. To his own relatives, some of whom arc in poverty, tho miser has not left a penny. |