Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-07-14
LOSERSWH0 HADLUCK
REMARKABLE INSTANCES OF THE RBCOY
BRY OF YALUABLBS.
Fortunes Lying UnderfoOt and Strangely Re
stored 10 Their 0wnsS-Ths Kohinoor
Mislaid and Picked Up by An
Ignorant Native Servant
S Louis Globs-Democrot

S. Louis Globs- DsmOcrot.
The paymsster of large railroad COM
pany, having its headquarters in Boston,
went out on one occasion with $50, 900 to
pay off its employees. The money was car
ried under his arm, wrapped up in an old
newspaper. He stopped st little wayside
clearinghouse for dinner, and on going
away, in fit of observation-disclosures left the
money lying on chair. He had not gone
many miles from the place before he miss
ed it, and his dismay on discovering his
loss can well be imagined. Almost de-
spairing of recovering the package left in
so public place, he hurried back and
with trembling voice asked the woman
in charge If she had seen the parcel
Theirs bit Of paper on the chair
beyart," said she, perhaps that's ii, ="
which it proved to be, and the gentleman
returned a happier ana wiser man.
Another man in the same city lost roll
| of bills amounting to SIC, 000, which also
was wrapped up IN q newspaper. He told
. friend OF his loss, and the friend made
him describe ali the ground he bad been
over since he had the money. The last
place mentioned was the post0fice The
night was wet over head and slusby under
fooI. They visited the pOstOfice,
and, going to the spot where
the man had been standing, they
found two or three bits of tOrn DeWspa-
psr. 1t was the same They looked
iurthar. and at last found the lost treasure
Ii had been kicked in turn by everyone
who came into the office, and when found
was united and completely soaked with
water. 1t was all there, however, and the
friends returned to the hotel and spent
several hours in cleaning and Crying IL
The gentleman was so grsteful for the sem
sible s6yice which he'd saved him from Sc
riSus loss that he took out his friend and
bought him the haudsOmes1 gold watch
chain hat he could find IN the city.
A still more remarkable incident Is re-
lated Of the finding Of $50, 600, i0st by NJ.
Pages in the Northern Railway station in
Paris some ten years SGD. AS one Ezelot,
2 French soldier, was walking with two
comrades though the station, they noticed
on the floor a small package wrapped in a
newspaper. They kicked it along before
them for some distance, and when Ezelot
was getting into the tram, going home on
short leave, one of his comrades, picking
up the package, thrust it into
the canvas forage bag slung at
his side, Ezelot going on his
way without perceiying the little pleas
antry. Arriving al Neuilly, where his
parents lived, Ezelot's mother, emptying
the forage bag, discovered the bundle, but
thinking it roll of old newspapers, put
it on a table in the kitchen. There it re-
manned for four or five days, till mar
ried sister, calling in and seeing the pack
age, was moved by an unwonted curiosity.
| Opening it, she discovered documents rep
rescnting the e26, 600, the loss which NJ.
/ Pages mad advertised throughout Europe.
/ The soldier and his parents however, had
not seen the advertisement, and not knOw-
ing what else to DO, had recourse to She
/ Maire. That functiOnary communicating
with Paris, speedily brought down N.
| Page, who, glsdly paying the promised re-
ward OF 81 900, went off with his oddly
/ recovered treasure. Il would be 81 inter
ssting supplement to the narrative If VS.
could have 3 record of the feeling of the
/ soldiers who thrust this unexpected good
/ fortune upon Ez9lot when he heard the BE-
quel 10 hls little joke.
Among singular reccyeries Of lest valus-
\ blel one of the oldest occurred IN Provl-
dence, r. 7, some years ago. One day q
gentleman in one Of the largest stores Of
/ that city tried on q pair Of heeco-linsd
gloves which did not sDig bim, so he
/ bought another pair. few days after lie
missed q gold Iiog from the third finger
of the lett hand, bat mad no idea how long
/ is had bsec gone. He searched the house,
and went into the store where he
/ bad purchased the gloves, and other
places, to see if anything had been
seen of It. but in vain. Months rolled on,
until another winter came, and the gentle
man once more visited the clothing store
in search of tleece-linsd gloves. The fret
pair he tried on he found loo shor, at the
wrists. In taking off the left hand glove
| ne found a ring n one of the fogers.
While slowly disentangling it from the
hsacy lining he said TO The salesman:
Here is q ring; whose shall it be-mine,
as l have found 1t, or yours, because 1t Is
/ found in your hlshment?" The
welghty question was decided IN the gen
tleman's favor, when suddenly his lost
ring came into his Inind, and he said:
"Who knows but that is the very ring I
/ lost a year ago?" The answer was: THAT
cannot be, as l DO not thjnk we have
PAIR OF gloves on hand that we had last
wear at this time Slowly the ring was
drawn out, and, indeed, II was the same,
with the owners initials engraved upon
/ it, The wonder was that the gloves had
rot been sent to some smaller store in the
country, as was frequent practice, il not
sold the previous season on the spot
4 still more wonderful ring story is told
in an English periodical. a gentleman
was walking along the shore OF Hastings
when be discovered that a valuable ring
which he wore had slipped off Although
diligent search was made no trace OF it
could be found A year stterward-in
deed, it is even said on the very anniver-
sary the gentleman again visited the spot,
and while strolling along the shore
fisherman near him stopped down, picked
up something, and rsn after him, saying;
Did yen drop this?' at the same time
holding up the identical ring lost twelve
months before.
S,me of the most curious losses and re-
coveries of which we have any record are
related in regard to the lannon's jewels.
AmOrg these the De Sancy diamond may
be mentioned as possessing particularly
singular history. The frst known owner
of this gem was Charles the Bold, Duke OF
Burgundy, who is said to have worn it IN
his helmet. 1t was lost In the battle in
which its owner was killed, hut WAS
picked mp by SWISS soldier, who gold 1t
20 priest Tor form. The priest, as ig-
norant as the soldier of its rare valu.,
imagined that he had made a