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Show cashier." The salary offered was $30 (G) a week. Within three days they had no fewer than 250 applicants for the post. One more proof of how money talks. London Mail. UNIQUE THINGS MONEY CAN BUY An advertisement aj peared In a newspaper offering "100 for a shapely finger of a healthy woman for grafting purposes." The owner of the finger was not to be more than forty-five years of ace. Would you sell a finger for 100? That some people at any rate, are quite willing to do so s proved by the fact that within the next few days the advertiser had no fewer than 27 replies. It appears that in America there is a regular tariff for this sort of thing. A thousand dollars was recently re-cently offered for an ear to be g.aft-ed g.aft-ed on to the son of n wealthy man, while human skin for grafting fetches, on an average, 10 per square inch. In old days the bodies of royal princes were supposed to be too sacred sa-cred to be touched bj a cane, j each prince bad a "whipping boy," who was paid quite a good wage to act as proxy and take the beatings which the prince's ill-coud.-.'c't had merited. This sort of thing still persists per-sists In Tunis, where nr one ri h enough to afford a substitute world dream of going to prison. If proxy imprisonment were possible possi-ble in England one wonders what the price would be for doing "six months' hard" 1 There is r tory that the great Fir Francis Drake, In a ft of rage, on 3 cut off the head of a cabin-boy and that the mother of the boy set a curse upon the Drake family, saying: "No male child will be born in the Drake family until a member of the family lives in the dungeons of Shardeloes, the home of the Drakes, for seven years, or a strauger for 14 years." The present head of the family, Mr. Edward Drake, has four daughters, daugh-ters, but no sons, and t is a fact that the squire recently- receiver" a letter from a stranger offering to "d . time" in these dungeons for 14 years. - The price demanded has not been made public. Belgrade has a newspaper, the Varodny List, the editors of which had so often been imprisoned for political offenses that at last the owner issued the following : -rtise-ment : "Whoever wishes a snug berth In this cold weather can call at ur office fr the post of responsible edi tor at 2 a clay. We will see that he Is supplied with good food during dur-ing his stay in the state prison." Next morning a crowd of nearly 50 men was waiting outside the office, of-fice, all eager to be imprisoned at 2 a day. You might hardly imagine that any woman would agree to call herself ugly. Yet listen. A firm of florists in St. Louis, Mo., could not keep a pretty girl as cashier because eac in turn got married. After losing seven girls in two years, the firm, in desperation, advertised for an "ugly |
