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Show rYANDERINQ DOLLAR. An ISxeelteot Kismplo of How 1 a Monfty Travels. H Thirty years ago It waa common for H school boys, whon hard pushed for a v H called composition, to writo an imsftc.ry autobiography of somo cvcry-dy objoci a H coin, tor example, or a knife. Homo ot tc fiction thus Invoiitcd was undoubU'i'. H strange onough, but not much, of It o. '.J H havo been stranger than tho adventure :-i H n gold piece as narrated for fsct by or, ot H ourcxenanges It appears that ay H woman In New Jars7 had a gold a- nr H (hat eho especially valued frr tht, sat) ;' at H monogram Inicrlbcd upon H Tlio coin was attacked V a bmcelol - H chain. Ono evening in February, aft H sleigh ride. Its owner ramoi it, dnr. H broken chain showed piMnly bow II bst nppenred. Bearcli was at once mwln, without avail. Finally an advertise- 1 H mottbeeyo of n loafer about tain J- H said that be had found the dollar tolor - H step of tho sleigh the m.-ning otM -. . ride, and had spont It for whltky . 1 H Tho friend of tho young lady Mfx H toflndthokaepsako It pesslhlo Thf - H tondor rcmemberoil rrciingiL'o ee bad paid It to a butchi r , ho rrcoll'jcus , - , H loglt to adroverlnTroiitoa. - H Thonddross of tho drover vrfticurv. H and a lattor written ta lilm, roquetcr tv H ply at onco. It soon came, and cohtalni-d H the Information that t bad purokawd it H ticket to Phfladclphh nith tha taewjj en H tbo vory day tho bu' hoi gavo It t hit, ndlbnt tho ticket m,ent mado ita? 'rv H mark atiout tho mor niara ' ' H Tbo search vti 1 ' nued Tho tmul remembered tlm do'isr. and sakl that, be H laid ltBtldoftr n few hours, but tb.t It H was forwarded to I'mlBaelphia wllb, the H dnlly aeceuTits Tho receiver ot ttif Ne H ' -ty reui;ta at Philadilpbin way next il.-,lml with Tba bt-suhful mvr)- H - in ml been notk 1, but tto mocirj-tvl H inwn lepusi'ed in tt" bank ,1) H inili - n notnaiuolorddd wtlh. IKij B tf. Hon ) bcu 1 sllnd 0 tbo Initial -1 H iiKia-kof , i.o,iar by en ef Ihocltfks, H si In. hut i.evvl htm to place It hide H 1 four uniis Unfortunately, la tht H niii ii.hi of iimcieik, artntlimaa dctrtB H si hi 1 d'wl i'o ars In gold, prp' H 1, tc 1 c.hi:f, .i- trip, bad been furalshod iri'h iuuanvvrt,ud the little pleco W, H in tune cs,Vieii mixed -iith thtt bun H snd 6iua viMtward. Th gBavtezan's H iumu was turn shod, tnrt a '.olMr itj tvst H lo B Tha rotualndsr of thn tpr nc tnd cam H mr parsed without tidings Flutl y, htrr. M over, a ooniir.ui lonitou rta ecoivei from H iliMgonilnmnn siuting that t.s letterof In H qulrv 1 ad just niched htm, a hnceantcl H sfiiio mlstak in tho adilrest, But tbtt h H nil had tho Hollar la hi peetiBs. Die H tfiiUs't bwo tlio same im those of it ycuag fri"iil of his, and be had kept ton oeia cm ,'H lha' iv c'liiV. jH Ou rei-eivlae the prepor directlsu t saBBBBxaxaaxI nmipily returned 1 he eld dollar fO per- tlaBBBBBBBBBi wi Uy tosrohiil for, tho eunoiiB Lltui r : w none wandcrlugs afford an excA)lluV sample of how fast money irsvr-ls . |