The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1895-03-21
FAMOUS MISERS.

FAMOUS MISERS.
Observable, the rich Paris banker, a
few days before his death, refused to
allow his servant to buy meat for
broth. True, l should like the SOUP"
said the dying miser, "but l have no
appetite for the meat. What is to be-
come of that? 1t will be sad waste"
An English miser used to go about
dressed SO shabbily as to annoy his &C.
quaintances. At last he was persuaded
to buy an old hat 'better as new"
from Jew. He paid shilling for it,
and the next day sold the hat for
eighteen pence. The same miser never
took snuff to titilate his nostrils, but
he did take pinch out of every snuff
box proffered him, which he carefully
placed in his own box. When it was
filled he bartered its contents for far
thing rush-light.
Lord Chancellor Hardwick was nick
named Judge Gripus," on account of
his avarice, though he was learned
lawyer and an excellent judge. When
visited on his estate by country gentle
men, who came to pay their respects to
the Lord High Chancellor, he compelled
them to send thetir horses to an inn,
half mile distant, that he might be
saved the expense of batting them. Yet
he was then worth 100000, but
dreaded to part with shilling.
! Marlborough tho oroot cOl1ior of hi
age who left between 81, 800, 900 anG
100000 at his death, would no
hesitate to any meanness to save a six
pence.
Sir William Smyth, parsimonou
English squire with immense posses
sions, became blind at seventy by thu
!, formation of cataracts over his eyes
j He made a bargain with a London oc
ulist to couch both eyes, agreeing t.
, pay sixty guineas if his sight was re
stored in the least. The operation wa
SO successful that the patient coul
read without glasses. But no soone
J did he SEE than he began to grieve a
t the thought of paying the promised fee
t Grief and avarice made him cheat. H
l pretended that he could see nothin
S distinctly and submitted to wearin
g bandages for month longer than tn
/ usual time. When the month expire
g he still insisted that he had only
: glimmering of light, and the oculi
9 compromised by accepting twent
e guineas instead of sixty. Yet at tn;
time the baronet had $4,000 in h
J.. house.
f A miser, whose parsimony and bus
ness abilities had amassed for him Ell
ormous wealth, was requested to len
+ to his Government a sum of none,
a He refused, as the interest offered w;
is not high as he demanded, giving as h
a reason that he had met with seve
,s losses, which had reduced him to po
Is erty. Fearing that his excuse might
,s discovered to be falsehood, he dug
cave in his cellar, and in it hid h
:, money. A trapdoor with spring loc
! and ladder gave him access to h
i gold, which he daily visited. At la
y, ~ the miser disappeared. Search W
Us made, but he could not be found. Il
- house was sold, and workmen began
~, repair it. One day they came upon
~, ~ door in the cellar with the key in t
- lock outside.
y, They opened the door, descended t
N ladder, and by the light of lante
~ discovered the skeleton of the de
miser, surrounded by bags and boz
is of gold and silver. He had gone il
ne his cave, the door had blown to, t
OF lock could only be opened by the k
er which ne had left outside, and t
40 miser had persisted amid his mon
10 bags.
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