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Show Commercial Exactness. A retired merchant o. an Eastern city relates the following Incident as Illustrating tlio strictly methodical stylo of doing business which distinguished distin-guished thearly merchants. Having occasion to Settle, an account with an eminent and honored firm he was seat by the Arm which employed him to de liver a note on demnnd for $1,600. The word "dollars" 'was abbreviated oo that It read dolls. The dignified bead of the houso received the document, and adjusting his spectacles, read II and handed It back to the messenger, saying, "Young man, wo don't want sixteen hundred dolls In our business. Take It hack and have It made dollars, and I will. accept It." Philadelphia la-qulror. |