The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-06-19
TWO COPPER CENTS.
How They Found Each Other After Many
Years.

We were minted the same day, in
1885. One of Us bought paper al
most, rs soon as we left the mint The
other went into a rich young fellows
pocket "for luck, he said. The young
fellow was on his way to Europe. The
cent that bought the paper bought a
cents worth of milk for the newsboy's s
mother Then the grocer paid it out
to an eXpressman. with some silver. 1t
got in with its betters. and was uncom-
Portable until it got into Il bar-room
till" After that it led Il lowly life.
For years the owner of the bar-room
kept it on the table when he played cards
with his customers. He said it was his
''lucky penny"
One night, late, middle-aged man
came in begging. Without thinking,
its owner for fifteen years tossed it to
the beggar with an oath. That was all
he got there. The cent went into his
pocket. He was poor. From that time
he began to grow rich. The cent got
credit for his good luck. Though un-
fortunate itself, it had always brought
luck to others. 1t never left its last
owner. / saw him grow from poor
to rich man, and from middle-aged
to an old miser. The more he got the
more he wanted. There was nothing
short of murder he would not do for
money. He robbed his best friends,
and they never knew it. He passed for
a good man. He was the greatest,
the most magnificent hypocrite that
lived. This is what he used to whis-
per to his smooth, shining, and lucky
penny.
Well, the other penny stuck to the
young fellow on his way through Eu-
rope. When he came back. after hap
Ply years of wandering, he had velvet
case made for the lucky cent. The
first day it left his pocket for the case
he was killed in a runaway. His things
went to this one and that, and the cent
was Shot at in a shooting gallery for a
number of years. No bullet ever
struck it. Everybody knew that, and
everybody wanted it. So ii was finally
sold for So and lost by the gambler
who bought it. and found by the miser,
and it went into the latter's pocket
and found its twin after fifty-five
years. Two nights ago the miser
choked to death on piece of hard
bread. They came and placed him in
a coffin. They could not close his hor.
rible eyes until they thought of two
copper cents.
SO. here we are, in our coffin. divided
by nose, holding down the lids of
dead mans Chatter.
Il Fragrant, Rose-Colored Oil.
A Bowling Green (Ky.) correspon-
dent of the Philadelphia Times says:
"a well of mineral oil was discovered
near here yesterday by Ebenezer Cath
cart. owner of truck garden, while
boring for water. 1t is so clear as to
be nearly transparent of Il beautiful
pale pink color, and while entirely
odorless when cold, if heated highly
emits n most delicious odor. resembling
somewhat altar of roses. though more
delicate and subtle. An experiment
was tried with a small quantity to test
it bhrning properties. when it was
found to burn slowly but steadily, Civ
inc soft, clear, lambent flame, she'd
ding a faint rose-colored light, and fill
ing the air with Il penetrating fra
GRANGE. When the oil was consumed,
at the bottom of the vessel was found a
deposit of a number of hard. minute
particles, looking like grains of fine
stoue-colored sand, which exploded on
being placed in water, with incredible
violence when the size of the particles
is taken into consideration. The oil
and its precipitate are now being care
fully analyzed and experimental with
by the chemists here. whose opinion as
to their properties is being anxiously
waited for, for the beauty of the light
the oil gives. its delicious perfume,
and the highly explosive quality OF
the preeipitate left all seem to point
10 discovery of immense value to the
scientific if not to the commercial
world.n