The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-07-17


Tarrick, a farmer of Lesuer County
Mimi, came according to a story from
Lesuer, in a very peculiar way. Tar
rick had had years of i'll luck, which, it
appeared. eliminated a few weeks ago
in the loss of his farm by foreclosure
sale.
But he had bought about 20 years
ago a bone handled lather brush at an
auction in Chicago. 1t became too
much worn to work well, and he gave
it to his youngest child to play with
The youngster unscrewed the end OF
:. the handle and disclosed the fact that
it was hollow. Tarrick examined the
interior and found a diamond wrapped
up in a piece of silk. He took the stone
TO Lesuer, and with the proceeds of
the sale he bought back his farm.
1t is thought that the diamond had
been concealed in the handle by SNUG
giers years ago and by them forgotten
or lost. The stories of the discovery of
money between the leaves of old Bibles
the story of a disappointed legatee who
had inherited from a deceased rich
relative only an old teapot.
She was using this pot in entertain
ing her friends when she discovered
that no tea would run from it into the
cups. She made an examination and
found that the spout was wedged with
closely rolled bank notes.
An old safe according to the same
authority, was sold at auction few
years ago, and the dealer who bought
it soon again disposed of it. Before
delivering it he thought that he would
search through it's various drawers and
compartments He found a will deal
ing with property worth about $780,
600, and scrip to the value of $50, 900.
Captain w. S. Tough. who died last
week in Kansas City, was known
throughout the West for his remarkable
luck in the discovery of the trotting
stallion Smuggler.
Captain Tough was at county fair
in Eastern Kansas when an old farmer,
living near Olathe, drove into the
grounds with his pillow team hitched to
a spring wagon. Tough observed that
other could gallcp. He was a likely
looking animal and Tough bought him
out of the harness at a pillow horse price.
Within a year the horse was breaking
records and Captain Tough sold him
at $4,000. Walter Jones, boy who had
been put to work very unwillingly by
his mother in the family garden in
Humphrey County, Tenn, struck some
metallic substance with his hoe. Dig
ging around it he unearthed an iron
pot containing $1,000 in gold.
The place had belong to a miser
named Black To1and, who had been dead
several years. and the gold is sup
posed to be some of his buried wealth.
Captain Hardlike, of the sloop Bessie
W. Drone, while dredging for oysters
off Kent leland, in Chesapeake Bay,
brought up an iron pot. The Captain
cleared the mud from it and investi-
eating he found an old cross of antique
design, deliberately carved; two finger
rings of old English design; several
chains, IL gold coins, supposed to be
Spanish doubloons; SO silver coins, gold
clasps of an old Bible and a number of
small gold and silver trinkets.
For. generations people living on Kent
Island have said that the pirates of old
OF the isle, and from time to time coins
of ancient date and gold and silver ar
ficles have been found. The supposition
is that the shippers find was some for
gotten treasure of early buccaneers.
While pulling down an old house in
Richmond, Va, a few days ago, work
men discovered several loose gold pieces
and besides them a steel jar filled with
gold. This was undoubtedly some of the
treasure that was buried in different
parts of Richmond just before the eva
cuation of the city by the Confederates.
In many cases the owners were I'M
able to find their treasure, and some
died without telling where it had been
concealed. The story of a young ply
sician's good fortune comes from Eng
land. The young man soon after he had
begun practice attended an eccentric
old gentleman who spent nearly all of
his time in the garden of his residence
in one of the suburbs of London.
After the old fellows death the doc
tor secured his late residence as being
well suited for mediea, practitioner
Recalling the old gentlemen's longing
that he might not be forgotten, the doc
tor planted with his own hands a sap
ling in corner of the garden where the
s late owner had often sat.
While excavating a place for the
roots the doctor unearthed an iron box
containing 500 sovereigns, bequeathed
in writing by the dead man ITO the
SGnder." Record time was made in tear
ing up an old railroad platform at Alton.
I'll. The old platform was of planks
with half inch space between them.
The gang of men tearing it up went at
the task slowly. Suddeny they began to
show the most feverish haste, and the
planks were ripped up with greater
speed than any similar work had ever
before been done.
The foremen were surprised, and in
vestigating, made a discovery which