Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1902-09-11

worthless Except for Their
Association.
The biggest recess ever given
for > thing not really worth . penny
changed hands when Clements
Markham, the Diamond King !,
recovered bis lost watch charm.
He owned bullet which had
wounded his grandfather, Lieut..
Markham. in the Crimean War. aud
he naturally set great store BY Il.
II always hung on his watch chaln.
but one day il broke away and was
lost while he was trying 10 pass
through . great ss0wd Of sixhs-
seersxin London during the late
Queens Jubilee. He advertised in
nearly every paper Ia London next
day, Offering ESQ for the recovery Of
the bullet; and when no reply ar
rived he put the reward up 10 9lOo.
Three days later an ex-policemau
named Brooks, who now lives IN
High Barnet, found the lost charm
on st. James street, and took il 70
it's owner, who, he declared. shed
tears Of JOY on gettink The priced
bullet back. The Offer OF ei0o had
caused lot OF talk, and the finder
even then hardly believed such >
sum would be given fof an apparent
trifle. But the delighf@d owner not
only paid him at once ia n0tes, lssi
made 1t guineas instead Of pound
and told the lucky finder 10 come IL
him II ever he were in difficulties.
Gladstone once lost q pockefhook
in the streets Of York, and advar.
tised foT ii. not saying what price
would be given. Ii was Of no. l.as:s
sible use te anybody but the states
man himself, but contained budget
of notes on Homer, whom Gladstone
was translating. The pocketbook
was found by one 0rton, a
young clerk in a York bank
and he forwarded it to Hawarden
Castle. The G. o. NJ. returned "a
the finders a cheque for clio, saxipe
that the notes in the portfolio repre-.
scnted q whole years spare time.
and the reward was still below the
mark il anything. That clerk, by
way. is now a wealthy business man,
in Manchester.
IL is hard TO imagine that anyone
would set much store by bad shil-
ling, but a coin Of that kind, dated
in the year Queen Victoria came 10
the throne. was regarded as q mas
cot, priceless in value, by the late
Sir Arthur Sullivan. 1t was once
passed on the great composer for
genuine shilling, and so far from be-
ing annoyed afterward, he declared
that il was the luckiest emblem he
ever owned for Sir Arthur, like
many musicians and poets, was a
little superstitious. He carried II
about with him for ten years, and
when he lost it one day at Henly re-
gatta he was inconsolable. He Of
fered El0. f20, and finally $50 for
its recovery; and during six weeks
he declared scores of bad shillings
were attempted to be palmed of on
him as the lone and only" Final
ly, an old man named Bowring, a
retired waterman, picked IL up on
the towpath and took il to its owner
receiving the reward and the CON-
poser's grateful thanks.
A much bigger reward for thing
worth only a little more was the re-
compense of s3O0 given by Baron
Rothschild for the recovery of dog
he lost in London. The dog might
have been worth los at its best, for
it was q mixture of O good many
breeds, principally Skye terrier,
and not the kind of dog q millionaire
would be expected to have. Il be-
longed, however, to his little neph-
ew, who was inconsolable at the loss,
and whom nothing in the way Of
costly dogs could compensate for
the affectionate mongreI. Nearly
ten weeks the dog was at large !; for
it left London at once and made its
way over the country toward South
ampton. The rewards, which were
advertised in oil the leading papers,
went from f10 TO 600, which latter
is the highest ever offered for a dog
lin this country. at any rate. The
dog was found eventually near
Portsmouth by q well-to-do ship
owner, who claimed the reward.
with the request that 10 should be
divided among three hospitals
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