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Show UNIQUE THINGS MONEY CAN BUY An advertisement appeared In a newspaper offering "100 for a shapely finger of a healthy woman for grafting purposes." he owner of the finger was not to be more than forty-five years of age. 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 Amerki there Is a regular tariff for this sort of thing. A thousand dollars was recently re-cently offered for an ear tu oe g.aft-ed g.aft-ed on to the son of a 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 had a "whipping boy," who was paid quite a good wage t' act as proxy and take the beatings which the prince's ill-conduct had merited. This sort of thing still persists per-sists in Tunis, where n- 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 ? tory that the great Pir Francis Drake, iu a fit of rage, or ; 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 stranger for 14 years." The present head of the family, Mr. Edward Drake, has four daughters, daugh-ters, but no sons, and .1 is a fact that the squire recently receive' a letter from a stranger offering to "d time" in hese dungeons for 14 y?ars. 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 " -u-tise-ment: "Whoever wishes a snug berth In this cold v.eather can call at Cur office for the post of responsible ed' tor at 2 a day. We will see that he is supplied with good food during dur-ing his stay in the state prison." Next morning a crovl of nearly BO 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 uot 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 cashier." The salary offered was $30 (6) a week. Within three days they had no fewer than 230 applicants for the post. One more proof of how money talks. London MaiL |
