The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-08-11
SPICE oE sAhk.LlEE.
Queer Customers who Afforded Consider
able Amusement to the Cashier.

queer CustOmers VINO AHOrueu Consiuet-
able Amusement to the Cashier.
years ago Jim Simpson was depos-
itor," said bank cashier. "Jim used
TO come in every Saturday and deposit
his receipts Of the week, often two hum
dred dollars or three hundred dollars.
Well, he invariably went through the
same performance. Standing by desk
near the tellcr's window he would take
out his big pocketbook, draw out his
roll of bills, and begin counting them
over, leaving the ones, twos, fives and
tens each in u separate pile. Then he
would pick up the fivcs, lay them cross
wise OF the tens, count them again, put
the twos across, go through the same
process until he satisfied himself that
his count was correct. 1t often took
him fifteen or twenty minutes to get his
money arranged in shape for deposit
ing.
"Onc day, when he had an unusually
large amount OF money spread out be-
fore him, q stranger entered the bank,
walked up to Jim without saying a
word, nudged the old man with his ell
bow, and pointed to the floor under the
desk. The old fellow supposed, of
course. that he had dropped bill. and
stopped down to look after it. Quick
as flash the other man swept the pile
of bills off the desk, crammed them into
his pocket, and was out in the street
before Jim had time to straightcn up.
He looked around, saw the retreating
stranger, then looked at the place
where his money had been, and broke
into II loud and hearty laugh. "Well,
I'll be darned!" said he, and then laughed
more noisily than ever.
"None of us in the bank had noticed
what the old man was laughing at. l
never saw person more amused than
ne appeared to be. Repeating over and
over that he was willing to be hanged
he haw-hawed till the walls fairly
echoed. 1t was some time before he
recovered his gravity sufficiently to ex-
plain what had occurred. He was
greatly struck with the ridiculous ma
| ture of the trick that had been played
upon him that he seemed to regard it
as more than an equivalent for the
money he had lost
can amusing thing took place in our
| bank a few days ago. A laboring man
had been given a check by a well-known
contractor, and came to get his money.
| l told him he must be identified. The
man started, not having the least idea
what the word meant.
"'Do you mean vaccinated?' he ask
| ed.
"'No, no. / replied, after turning
away to laugh. Bring somebody here
that knows you are the person named
In the check. We can't pay money to
people we don't know
"rhe man departed and returned in
about fifteen minutes accompanied by
his wife. He seemed greatly surprised
when told him that her Identification
of him would not be sufficient. and that
he must bring somebody who was known
to the people in the bank. After had
wasted a half-hour making explanations
the maker of the check happened to
drop in, and got rid of my troublesome
visitor"
A countryman who bought draft to
pay note which was about due at some
bank in distant city, put the paper in
his pocket, imagined it to be receipt,
and only dreamed of his mistake when
he received notice that his note was
about to be protested. - Chicago Neaos.