Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-10-26
SPICE OF BANK-LlEE.
u.er Customers who Afforded Consider

queer Customers Who Afforded Consider
able Amusement to the Cashier.
Years ago Jim Simpson was depos-
tor said bank cashier. Jim used
to come in every Saturday and deposit
his receipts of the week. often two hun
dred dollars or three hundred dollars.
Well. he invariably went through the
same performance. Standing by Il desk
near the tellers window he would take
out his big pocketDook, draw out his
roll of bills. and begin counting them
over, leaving the ones, twos, fives and
tens each in a separate pile. Then he
would pick up the fives, 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.
"One day, when he had an unusually
large amount OF money spread out be-
fore him, Il 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 a bill. and
stopped down to look after it. Quick
as a 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 straighten up.
He looked around, saw the retreating
stranger, then looked at the place
where his money had been, and broke
into 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 was going on, and we had no idea
what the old man was laughing at.
never saw u person more amused than
he 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"
IAN amusing thing took place in our
bank few days ago. A laboring man
had been givon a check by well-known
contractor, and came to get his money.
| told him he must be identified. The
man started, not having the least idea
what the word meant.
Do you mean vaccinated?" he psk-
cd.
"'No, no. replied, after turning
away to laugh. Bring somebody here
thst knows you are the person named
in the check. We can't pay money to
r9ople we don't know.
The man departed and returned in
bout fifteen minutes accompanied by
as wife. He seemed greatly surprised
when | told him that her Identification
Of him would not be sufficient, and that
ne must bring somebody who was known
TO the people in the bank. After | had
wasted half-hour making explanations
the maker OF the check happened to
lrop in, and | got rid of my troublesome
visitor"
A countryman who bought Il draft to
pay a note which was about due at some
bank in a distant city, put the paper in
mis- 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 Nca0S.