Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1895-06-08
PEOPLE WHO MARK MONEY.
Some OF the Queer Things That Result
From This Mania.

From This Mania.
A mania for advertising and putting
strange communications on the back Oh
the paper money of the government has
broken out. As general thing torn bills
Are used, rs that gives the man with
The mania an excuse for his work for he
uses the slip with which the pieces are
put together for this purpose. On Dill
that came into the hands of one man on
Dearborn street was slip on which was
printed. "Shuke the bottle" When he
turned it into the bank, tho receiving
man, whose quick eye caught 1t, asked
did you bring the bottle with your
On q So bill handed over bar on
Monroe street was slip on which was
this
.Touch not, taste not, handle not.
\ Dearborn street bank took in $500
bill not long ago OH the bank OF which
was pasted Il slip that had printed on 1t
the Ten Commandments.
A cashier in mercantile house on
Randolph street has bill of 81 denomi-
nation on which is Il slip, and on the
slip is written i'll woman's chlrography
an offer of marriage The writer puts 1T
thus: Il give up my last money on this
send it out into the world, hoping 1t
may return to me with good man who
will love me and take care Of me. " But
no address accompanies the offer
A bill is III frame in an express Of
fee There is hole in the bill, and Il
note explains that the hole was made by
bullet fired by train robbor The bill
was in the side pocket of an express
messenger.
A bill handed i'll at cigar store Oh
Madison street had this on the back
Don come back to mo until You can
bring Your silver brother with you.
A periodical dealer on Washington
street received a remittance by mail
The inclosed bill had been pasted up by
q newspaper clipping which contained II
cut Of the newsman. The sender does
not know the dealer, and it is not at all
likely that the former ever suspected
that the cut was that Of the man who
was TO get the money.
A physician in the Venetian building
has private mark on So bill which
he sent aAoat several years ago. 1t comes
back 70 him about twice year.
A wholesale merchant over on Adams
street was i'll China and Japan few
wears ago. He gave Japanese function
ary a So bill ms a souvenir, placing on
the same private mark About three
weeks ago it came into his possession
again He is confident that he is not
mistaken in the mark, and does not fee
complimented over the idea that his
Japanese acquaintance did not thinh
enough of him to keep the bill.
A business man of this city relate:
this: He went from Chicago to Pitts
burg on q sleeper. He paid the conductor
for his berth, giving him Il marked s.
bill. He went from Pittsbarg to Cleve
land the second day, and on the thirt
day he bought a sleeping car ticket tol
his return trip The conductor handed
him the same bill he had given to the
other conductor.
This story was told to funny man
who told this: ~ went down to Wash
ington few years ago, and just before
quitting the train l handed the porter O
the car in which had travelled 81 bii
and I have never seen 1t since.
There is a bill floating about the conn
try somewhere on the back of which i
a prescription written by reputab!
physician several years ago. 1t is
''sure cure" for the grip, and was pu
there by the doctor out Of fancy tina
it might save somebody's life.
Another one is i'll circulation, pre-
sumably, on which is written: eff thi
should fall into the hands of Reubel
Middleman, be will please communicat
his address to his brother James, Gen
eral Delivery, Boston, Mass, on or be
fore January, 1896 After that in Eng
land. He knows where.
Then the funny man got hold of on
on which he pasted slip and thel
wrote, "You are all the world to me be
cause I am stuck on you. y
A dollar note in the possession OF Il
Sale street lawyer has this writtel
across the face of it, "This bill has savec
my life three times, but l give it up. "
His life or the bill: Who knows VIVA
story that dollar bill could tell?
There is a So bill somewhere, if i
isn't destroyed, on the back of which
Endorsed the statement that the MAJ
who had it passed it a number Of time
at the Worlds fair-frst i'll purchasing
ticket, then at various times at tn
cafes, and finally, as he supposed, in Oh
Vienna And then he paid his hotel IL
part with the bill, indorsing that on i
the last time he saw it, as he supposes.
A banker on Washington street told TIL
writer that he has collection of bill
Oh which are written or painted o
drawn many strange things and pictures
His collection represents face value o
more than S200.-Chicago Tribune.
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