Show UNIQUE THINGS MONEY CAN BUY an advertisement appeared in a newspaper offering 1100 for a shapely finger of a healthy woman for grafting purposes the owner of the finger was not to be more than forty live five years of age ae would you sell a finger for 1100 1100 that some people at any rate are quite willing to do so BO a proved by the fact that within the next few days the advertiser had bad no fewer than 27 replies it appears that in there Is a regular tariff fo for r this sort bort of thing A thousand dollars was recently offered for an ear to be gaft ed on to the son of a wealthy man while human skin for grafting gra lfting fetches on an average 10 per square inch in old days the bodies of royal princes were supposed to be too sacred to be touched bi a cane J each prince had bad a whipping boy who was paid quite a good wage t act as proxy and take the beatings which the princes ill conduct condet had merited this sort of thing still persists in tunis where nr one rl ri h enough to afford a substitute world dream of to prison it if proxy imprisonment were possible in england one wonders what the price would be for doing six months hard bard I 1 there Is p tory that the great sir francis drake in a ft fit of rage on 3 cut oft 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 Shar deloes the home of the drakes Dri likes for seven years or a str stranger auger tor for 14 years yeam the present pres ent head of the farralla farr alln mr edward drake has four daughters but no sons and i Is a fact that the squire recently beecho reecho 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 list the editors of which had bad so often been imprisoned for political offenses that at last the owner issued the following etise ment whoever wishes a snug berth in this cold weather can call at tur cur office for the post of 0 responsible ed tor at 12 2 a day we will see that he Is supplied with good food during his stay in the state prison next morning a crow croci of nearly 60 men was waiting outside the office all eager to be imprisoned at az 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 ene in turn got married after losing seven girls in two years the firm in desper atlin advertised tor for an ugly cashier the salary offered was 30 10 0 C a week within three days they had bad no fewer than applicants for the post one more proof of how money talks london mall |