| Show t WEALTH IN CIGAR STUBS r ewh of a collector 0 abe the etory told by mr jonathan pinchbeck at north london police court the other day is to remarkable as fully to deserve the prominence that has bean given it in abe press says london truth sir pinchbeck among other striking statements asserts eliat from january 1870 to january 1893 he picked up on his way to and from work in the neighborhood of clapton ends which he valued at lie estimates the distance covered in these flatly walks at miles rf even allowing him a walk on sundays this would mean that for seventeen years he picked up very nearly cigar anda per day in the of less than a two mile walk would not have taken him much over an hour further in seventeen aars ho collected tobacco to the value af pf 1800 which means a return of about per annum or over 40 shillings per week for an hours work per day if this can be done in the neighborhood of clapton the returns would be vastly greater in the west end where cigar ends are presumably more plentiful the vicar of all souls clapton has written to the papers to guarantee that mr pinchbeck is a deserving man if the vicar can also guarantee that he is a truthful one a new and lucrative industry has been discovered a |
