The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-10-12
NOTABLE MISERS.
Contemplate Excuses and Mean Devices
Originated by Wealthy Money Worship

Contemplate Excuses and Mean Devices
Originated by Wealthy Money Worship
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Observable. the rich Paris banker, .
few DAYS before MS death, refused to
allow his servants TO buy meat for
broth. True, should like the SOUP"
said the dying miser. but l have no
appetite for the meat. What is to be-
come of that? 1t will be q sad waste"
An English miser used to go about
dressed so shabbily as to annoy his ac-
quaintanccs. At last. he was per-
suaded to buy an old hat, ''better as
new" from jew. He paid a shilling
for it. and the next day sold the hat for
eighteen pence. This same miser
never took snuff to titillate his nOstrils,
but ne did take a pinch out of every
snuff-bOX prOffered him, which he care
fully placed in his own box. When 1T
was filled he bartered its contents for
farthing rush-light.
Lord Chancellor Hardwick was
nicknamed Judge Gripus,' on &C
count of his avarice. though he was
learned LAWYER and an excellent Judge.
When visited OH his estate by country
gentlemen who came to pay their re-
Spacts To the Lord high Chancellor, he
compelled them TO send their horses to
an inn. half 3 mile distant. that he
might be saved the expense of baitlng
them He WAS then worth four million
dollars. but dreaded to part with 3
shilling.
Marlborough. the great soldier of his
age. who left between seven and eight
million dollars ut his death. would not
hesitate at any meanneSs to save
siXpense.
Sir William Smith. parsimOnious
English squire. with immense posses
sions. became blind ut seventy by the
formation of cataracts over his eyes
He made bargain with a London Oc-
ulist to couch both eyes. agree
inc to paw sixty guineas If his sight
was restored in the least. The operation
was SO successful that the patient could
read without glasses. But no sooner did
he see than he began TO grieve at the
thought of paying the promised fee.
Grief and ayarice made him 3 cheat
He pretended that he could see moth
ing distinctly. and submitted to wear
ing the bandages for month longer
| than the usual time. When the month
expired he still insisted that he had
only 3 glimmering of light, and the
oculist compromised by accepting
twenty guineas. instead of sixty. Yet
at that time he had thirty thousand
dollars in his house.
A miser, whose parsimOny and busi-
ness abilities had amassed for him
enormous wealth, was requested 70
lend TO his Government q sum OF
money. He refused, as the interest
offered was not as high as he demanded,
giving as a reason that he had met with
severe losses which had reduced him e
poverty. Fearing that his excuse
might be discovered to be falsehooC
he dug a cave in his cellar and in II
hid his money. A trap-door, with {
spring-lock and q ladder, gave him &C
cess to his gold, which he daily visited
At last the miser disappeared. Search
was made, but he could not be found
His house was sold and workmen begar
to repair it. One day they came upoI
q door in the cellar, with the key II
the lock outside. They opened the
door, descended the ladder, and By
the light of lantern discovered the
skeleton of the dead miser, surrounded
by bags and boxes of gold and silver
He had gone into his cave, the
door. had blown to. the lock could only
be opened by the key which he had lief
outside, and the miser had persisted
amid his money-bags.-YoutA's Com
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