The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-09-10
SOME PECULIAR REWARDS
Watches for valor in Battle Given fin J.,
 anese SOldiers.

watches for Valor in Battle Given to Ian.
 anese Soldiers.
 The intelligence that the Japanese government have given orders for IS 900 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 a very wealthy gentleman whose boat had upset, the latter immediately made over to him couple of e2O shares in a Johannesburg, gold mine, assurino him that they would turn out real. ly good thing" They did; for the donor months afterwards called upon his rescuer and offered to buy the two shares for Gl7O.
 A member of the metropolitan po- lice force, who once stopped 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 gra,e- ful 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- taining money; and the reward offered to the finder is not unfrequently 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 a curious case on record in which parish official was offered a very nice house, to be built from his own design, provided that he gave a biz contract to an interruptions 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 destruction; and one of these gallant fellows himself in. | formed the writer that, on one occa- sion, a big firm of shop-keepers had, under these very circumstances, offered to set himself and his wife up in nice little general" shop in a rising To- cality.
 A very extraordinary case of a pecul- | far reward was related recently by a famous surgeon who practices in one of our great hospitals One of this gentlemau's 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- tained in the following: Little more | than a year ago a barrister, who has made something of a speciality of breach of promise cases, won a case for an aggrieved maiden, the damages amounting to el,150. This was satis- factory enough. but you can imagine the legal gentleman's amusement on receiving a letter from his client few days afterwards. offering, by way of reward. herself Gs a wife and her dam ages as dowry!-Tit-Bits