Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-02-16
The Graveyard. Secondhand
Desk, Jewel Case and Aus
trian Bond RRckets.
Simple But Sure MOdus Opsrandi.

er, who receives her Sympatnetlc
advances with grateful fervor and
leaves the cemetery with her. As
they stroll away the young stranger
introduces herself as the Countess
Montrond. She belongs in the Cote
d0r, and visits Paris to pray at the
newly erected tomb of her husband.
This remarkable coincidence of tastes
in one so exalted charms the widow
Hoeeher, of course. She is the more
enchanted by the afability of the
gracious Countess, and when that lady
informs her that she has TO pay for
her husbands tombstone that after
noon, and is
SHORT OF MONEY,
for which she has written to her agent
in the country, the honest widow OBJ
serves that she has some 200 francs
lying about loose, which she will be
delighted to place at her service. The
Countess reciprocates the generous
prefer, and invites the widow to call
on her next day at the Hotel du Bon
Lafontaine, Rue de Grenelle, to dine
and get her accommodation back. So
they part, embracing, and, at last
accounts, the widow Hoocher was still
looking for the Hotel du Bon Lafon
tame. Can any one help her out?
A second hand dealer at Belleville
possessed among his stock a battered
old desk, which for months stood at
his door vainly appealing for purchase.
Finally. it was acquired at a small sum
bya polite young man, who seemed to
be a student. The day after it was
sent home, the student came to the
dealer in great agitation. In cleaning
the desk out he had discovered a
secret drawer, and in it package Of
railway stock certificates and govern
ment bonds, worth over $4,000 francs.
He desired to know of whom the desk
had been purchased, so that he might
return the treasure to the proper
owner. The dealer did not remember
where he had got the desk. Besides,
even if he did, why return the treas
ure trove? The loser had, clearly, not
missed it, or it would have been sought
before to-day. Let them share it, and
no man the wiser or the worse off. The
young man, at first
REYoLTED AT THIS PROPOSITION;
then he listened and narmitted him.
self to be persuaded. The papers
should be sold by the dealer, who had
a friend who dabbled in such things.
Meanwhile, would the dealer let the
lucky finder have some money to take
his girl to the theater on ? He would,
and did. $500 francs was the amount,
and the securities turned out to be
excellent counterfeits.
Two well dressed persons fall into a
dispute in a wine shop in the rue
Montmartre, with regard to their re-
spective muscularity. II will wager
you i've hundred francs to a quart Of
champagne | can throw you, cries
one Done" exelaims the other.
and our host shall hold the stakes.
Bonifsce assents, and orders q
couple Of magnums on ice. The dis
putants put the money up. One ha.
thousand franc note, the other five
hundred francs in bills. The one
TAKES THE SMALL BILLS
and leaves the 1000 franc note in The
landlords hand.
1T will all belong to one Of Us.
they say" They wrestle, but fail to
throw one another. Then they get
tired, declare the wager of, and call
for the wine on their Joint account
Take it out Of the note, and we will
divide the balance" they say; so the
landlord changes the bogus $500. give,
them Sl96 good money. and takes an
oath next morning to kill the first mar
who asks him to hold stakes for him
again.
A lady and gentleman, apparently
foreigners, of the best style, enter q
jewelers. at the Louvre. They crit,
cally examine rings, bracelets, anc
the like, conyerging with animation
in English. Finally they make a Sc
lection Of 1000 francs, and it put up il
box, which the lady places in her
reticule. The gentleman produces
his wallet and flds himself nearly
half the money short Never mind
lie is going to his bankers and they
will call on their way back to thcil
hotel. Meanwhile NJ. Biblebot car
keep the box ready for them. NJ
Biblebot keeps it forty-eight hours
and then finds that it is another box
with fragment of brick in its cottor
batting bowels instead Of gems o
price. The sharpers had purchase,
something from him the day before
discovered how he put things up, an,
what manner Of paper and card h
used, and lol the result. A silly look
ing young person, with the air of
German countryman, calls on a none
changer Of
FIsHY REPUTATION
in the Boulevard des Italiens. II
has an Austrian railroad bond h
wishes to sell. The money change
does not buy bonds, but the stupi,
stranger does not understand thii
, While a colloquy is in progress ente
! two strangers. They seize the youn
! countryman in their capacity as de
. tectives. He is a robber. Here /
! one Of a number Of bonds which h
! has stolen in the hands Of the fnan
cial person. Ergo, the financial pel
! son knows something Of the theft II
: expOstulates; they argue for half a
J hour, and meanwhile the place is i
!, confusion. Finally they permitth
I, selves to be convinced, and take the
prisoner away. They also take SON