| Show UNIQUE THINGS MONEY CAN BUY an advertisement appeared la in a newspaper offering 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 age would you sell a finger for that some people at any rate are quite willing to do so s proved by the tact fact that within the next few days the advertiser had no fewer than 27 replies it appears that in america there la Is a regular tariff for tills this sort of thing A thousand dollars was recently offered for an ear to be grafted 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 sit sa credito creato be touched bi a cane j each prince had a whipping boy who was paid quite a good wage to to act as proxy and take the beatings which the princes ill conduct had merited this sort of thing still persists er in tunis where ne nc one rah enough to afford a substitute would dream of going to prison if proxy imprisonment were possible in it fingland angland ona one wonders what the pride price would be for doing six months hard I 1 there Is a tory that the great sir francis drake in a pt fit of rage 0 on 11 e cut off the head of a cabin boy and that the mother of the boy set a curse upon the drake family saying iino no male child will be born lit in the drake family until a nie member niber of the family lives in the dungeons of Shar deloes the home boine of the Dr drakes alces for seven years or a stranger for 14 years the present head of the family mr edward drake has four daughters but no sons and it is a fact that the squire recently receive a letter from a stranger offering to do time in these dungeons for 14 years the price demanded lias has not been made public belgrade has a newspaper the list the editors of which had so often been imprisoned for political offenses cs that at last the owner issued the following ralso ment whoever wishes a snug berth in t this Is cold weather can call at cur office for the post of responsible tor or at za 2 a day we will see that he Is 9 supplied p p 1 d with 1 t good a food during ssu ian S agoo I 1 n g ats 1 1 stay t a y in the th 0 state t prison p r I 1 s 0 n next morning a crowl crowd of nearly ZO 50 men was waiting outside the office all eager to be imprisoned at 12 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 bac in turn got married after losin losing 9 seven girls in two years the firm I 1 in n desperation advertised for an ugly cashler cashier the salary offered was 30 16 a week within three lays days they had no fewer than applicants for the post one more proof of how money talks london mall |
