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Show THERE WAS NO STTUNQ T& ($. Bat Ho Had Abundant Reason Nevorik less to Be Suspicion. There was a bright now 50 cent pleot lying on the pavement on Jefferson av enuc, near Griswold street, when & bow backed man with a satchel cam long from tho depot. Ho saw tho cola while he was yet 20 feet away, and he made a sudden forward rush to get it The movement was almost instantly shocked, however, and he walked slowly slow-ly forward and bacied to the curbstona and stood there and gazed at tho coin yith a foxy look on his countenance. In cbout a minute a pedestrian came up, gaw the coin and reached for it and put It in his pocket Observing the attitnds of the old man at the same timo be turned and queried: "It didn't belong to yon, did it?" "Waal, I swanl" was tho reply. "What's the matter?" "This is the queerest durned town I error struck in all my life. I was coming up this street last year abont this timt when I saw a 50 cent piece lyin jess About hera I made a grab fur it, feU jn my nose and rolled all over and finally final-ly got up to find that a boy had a string on the ratsey and had pulled it inta that doorway. " "And so you were shy of this one?" "Yaas, I was shy. " "And aro half a dollar behind tin game?" "Yaas, I'm half a dollar out Say, txe you in a hurry?" "Yes great hurry." "Wall, I'll hev to find somebody olst then. I want to find a feller who'll sol down with me fur about two hours and post me up. I'm comin into Detroit onco a week now, and I want to find out what'B got strings to it and what's lyt around loose and kin be picked up." Otroit Free Press. A pupil of tho late Professor He) In holtz relates that when his master bad discovered tho velocity of nerve current by the aid of electric measurement Alexander von Humboldt remarked ti Dn Bois-Boymond, "Then nervo cur rents move only three times as fast b 4ho Orinoco," |
