Morning journal and courier., 1890-08-19
IN WONDERFUL LUCK.

IN WONDERFUL LUCK.
 valuabIes MiracuIousIy Found-For- tunes Lying Under Foot and Strangely Restored 10 Their own CTS.
 The paymaster of large railroad com. went out on one occasion with thirty thou sand dollars to pay of its employees. The money was carried under his arm, wrapped up in an old newspaper. He stopped at a little wayside eating house for dinner, and on going away, in fit of absent-minded- ness, left the money lying on chair. He had not gone many miles from the place before he missed it, and his dismay on dis covering its loss can we'll be imagined. Almost despairing of recovering the pack age left in so public a place, he hurried back, and, with trembling voice, asked the woman in charge if she had seen the par eel. ''There's bit of paper on the chair beyant," said she; perhaps that's it, /" which it proved to be, and the gentleman returned a happier and a wiser man.
 Another man in the same city lost roll of bills amounting to ten thousand dol
  paper. He told friend of his loss, and the friend made him describe all the ground he had been over since he had the money. The last place mentioned was the postoffice The night was wet overhead and slushy under foot. They visited the postoffice, and going to the spot where the man had been standing, they found two or three bits of torn newspaper. It was the same. They looked further and at last found the lost treasure. It had been kicked in turn by every one who came into the office, and when found was united and completely soaked with water. It was all there, however, and the friends returned to their hotel and spent several hours in cleaning and drying it. The gentleman was so grateful for the sensible advice which had saved him from serious loss that he took out his friend and bought | him the handsomest gold watch chain that he could find in the city.
 A still more remarkable incident is rela- | ted of the finding of one hundred and thirty thousand dollars, lost by M. Pages
 in the Northern railway station in Paris some ten years ago. As one Ezelot, g comrades through the station, they noticed l on the floor small package wrapped in 8
 newspaper. They kicked it along before 1 them for some distance, and when Ezelot | was getting into the train, 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 having perceived the little pleasantly. Arriving at Neuilly, where his parents lived, Ezelot's mother,
 emptying the forage bag, discovered the
 bundle, but, thinking it roll of old news 1 papers, put it on a table in the kitchen. | There it remained for four or five days | till married sister, calling in and seeing the package, was moved by an unwonted curiosity. Opening it she discovered doc | uments representing twenty six thousand l pounds the loss of which NJ. Pages had
 advertised throughout Europe. The sol
 dier and his parents, however, had not
 seen the advertisement, and, not knowing
 what else to do, had recourse to the maire
 That functionary, communicating with
 Paris, speedily brought down NJ. Pages
 who, gladly paying the promised reward
 of one thousand pounds, went off witf
 his oddly recovered treasure. It would b'
 an interesting supplement to the narrative
 if we could have q record of the feeling
 of the soldier who thrust this unexpected
 good fortune upon Ezelot when he hear
 the sequel to his little joke.
 Among singular recoveries of lost valu
 ables one of the oldest occurred in Provi
 dence, R. l., some years ago. One day
 gentleman in one of the largest stores O
 that city tried on pair of fieece-line' l gloves which did not suit him: so h
 bought another pair. A few days after h
 missed gold ring from the third finger O
 the left hand, but had no idea how long
 had been gone. He searched the house
 and weht into the store where he had pun chased the gloves and other places to SC if anything had been seen of it, but il
 vain. Months rolled on, until anothe . winter came, and the gentleman once nor } visited the clothing store in search c feece-lined gloves. The first pair he trie on he found too short at the wrists. I , taking off the left-hand glove he found . ring in one of the fingers. While slowl | disentangling it from the fieecy lining 3 said to the salesman: 'sHere sis a rin. s | whose shall it be-mine, as I have foun
 it, or yours, because it is found in yor F estabIishmentf' The weighty questio g was decided in the gentleman's favo when suddenly his lost ring came into h q mind, and he said: ''Who knows but tn is the very ring lost year agoP IT
 answer was: .'That cannot be, as l q t not think we have pair of gloves on han t that we had last year at this time" Sloy s ly the ring was drawn out, and, indeed, - was the same, with the owners initials el
 
 l1 gloves had not been sent to some small
 store in the country, as was freque: , practice, if not sold the previous seasC @ on the spot.
 h A still more wonderful ring story is to
 in an English periodical. A gentlems
 was walking along the shore of HastinI
 when he discovered that valuable Til
 which he wore had slipped of. Althous , diligent search was made no trace of could be found. A year afterwards :, deed, it Is even said on the very annive 't sary-the gentleman again visited the spC '' and while strolling along the shore a ifs
 erman near him stopped down, picked | + something and ran after him, ssyin IT ssDid you drop thisfr at the same tir n holding up the identical ring lost twel
 months before.
 n Some of the most curious losses and I 10 coyeries of which we have any record a g related in regard to famous jewel
 Among these the De Sancy diamond mi I be mentioned as possessing particular a singular history The first known own To of this gem was Charles the Bold, Duke b. Burgundy, who is said to have worn it a. his helmet It was lost in the battle
 which its owner was killed, but was pick ,o up by a Swiss soldier, who sold it to .ee priest for forin. The priest, as ignora m m,r as the soldier of its real value, imagin ,,i nt that he had made good bargain when - sold it to the King of Portugal for fiol
 and half. The profit of the king, ho
 ever, was somewhat larger than that of { II !I, unworldly priest, for he received not l. l lli than one hundred thousand crowns for .1 from the wealthy Harley de Sancy, l in whose family it remained for several gei as rations. Finally one of his descendan
 wishing to pawn it in order to lend He III. some money, sent it to Jew brol re by the hand of a servant in whom he gle the utmost confidence. The servant ne ow returned. and the broker declared that nd man had never made his appearance W
 the diamond. In spite of this assert pc the confidence of De Sancy in the hone