Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-09-12
SOME PECULIAR REWARDS.

Watches for vaIor in Battle Given to Jap
anese Soldiers.
The intelligence that the japanese
government have given orders for 49,
600 half-guinea Geneva watches where
with to reward their valiant warriors,
reminds us that gratitude has frequent
ly taken some very curious concrete
forms We were conversing the other
day with one of the Royal Humane So
ciety's men in Hyde park. and he told
us that on one occasion, when he had
dragged out of the Serpentine very
wealthy gentleman whose boat had
upset, the latter Immediately made
over to him couple of $50 shares in
johannesburg gold mine, assuring
him that they would turn out a real
1y good thing They did; for the
donor months afterwards called upon
his rescuer and offered to buy the two
shares for 917O.
A member of the metropolitan po-
lice force, who once stopped a runaway
horse attached to smart dog-cart in
George street, Portman square, was
actually presented on the spot with
the vehicle, horse and all, by the CRATE
full proprietor, who was seated in the
dog-cart with his wife.
We often see, in the agony columns
of the daily papers, an advertisement.
proclaimiug the loss of a purse con-
tanning money; and the reward offered
to the finder is not unfrequent1y all
the money in the purse-provided the
finder returns the purse itself, with
which certain tender associations are
probably connected. We saw once in
the Daily Telegraph an advertise
ment setting forth the loss of a very
valuable diamond necklace; and on
the finder bringing it to a certain
aristocratic house in Charges street,
Piccadilly, he would be allowed to re-
tain the largest stone.
There is 4 curious case record in
which parish official was offered a very
| nice house, to be built from his own
design, provided that he gave big
| contract to an INSCRIPTIONS builder,
| who had rendered for it.
Members of the metropolitan fire
brigade are constantly receiving offers
| of more or less extraordinary rewards
| from those whose houses or shops have
| been saved from distinctions; and one
| of these gallant fellows himself in
| formed the writer that on one occa-
| sion, a big firm of shop-lzeepers had,
| under these very circumstances, offered
to set himself and his wife up in a nice
| little general shop in rising To-
| ca1ity.
| A very extraordinary case of pecul-
| ldT T0WdIu was TeldLco recently ny d
| famous surgeon who practices in one
| of our great hospitals One of this.
gentlemans patients in the hospital
| ward had been run over in the street,
| and was in great danger of losing his
| life through blood poisoning. Under
the surgeons provisions. however, a.
| successful amputation of the leg below
| the knee was made, and the grateful
patient Immediately offered the limb.
| to the surgeon.
But perhaps the most unique case on
record of a peculiar reward is con-
tanned in the following: Little more
| than a year ago barrister. who has
made something of a speciality of
| breach of promise cases, won case for
| an aggrieved maiden, the damages
amounting to Ell, $50. This was salts
factory enough. but you can imagine
the legal gentleman's amusement Oh
| receiving a letter from his client a few
| days afterwards. Offering, by way of
| reward. herself as wife and her dam
| ages as dowryi-Tit-Bits-