New-York tribune., 1905-06-11
RONANCES OF BANKNOTES
Tales of the Peculiar Bills Issued by
the Bank of England.

| An elderly couple living in Paris have recently
| mat with q sad misfortune. Inside a diapidated
| old hatbox which the most experienced burglar
might have ignored. they had placed their entire
| fortune-a sheaf of banknotes amounting 10 over
| 5000
Periodically either the husband wife opened the
box and counted the notes to that their wealth
still intact.
Imagine their surprise when on going to 1t the
| other day, not q single note to be found-only
q little heap of dust.
Rats had entered the box and devoured every
scrap of tho precious paper.
More fortunate old Belgian peasant
woman. although at first she was thrown into just
as hopeless despair She had laid on the grass a
and then set about her work in the fields, accom-
To her horror she suddenly caught sight of the
goat munching something that looked like her
ExaInination proved her surmise to be true The
goat had been browsing on her banknotes-
chewed paper rvGns removed from its % stomach It
n d H b but tt the Gd ban af Gsf Re
giur1 which. after verifying the facts and proving
issued by them. 'p paid ad the the Woman S the f
On one occasion the Bank Of England ar ID h had & pre-
It was Is note which had M been given en- BY g,,,
The as sdT 10 has d pac Io it in he pocket
her dress and promptly forgot it till the same
wa Wsshias st starching and ironing had not i'm i'm
cd th ere
fcient to See that It had been banknote. and the
More than once the Bank of England has paid
twice for one note. On one occasion II ioS' IA
It happened that one of directors. desirous Of
pos for he an amoan
Ing home he placed on the manrelPece, @ Wnen, @ oo n
mediatey doing so. he was caIeo rom th ne ronn,
few moments later he came into the d,esn feo
sn but ass the n0ts & ha fSe9e
doubt but that the valuable piece S OF paper APE oe
ton for no one had entered the room
His colleagues at the bank. believing this story.
fhse the frst ntn Il { fouDd, should be returned.
Thirty years afterward, When Ihe W uiI go. M O.
been dead considerable time stranger presenfSe fs
bank could not avoid its obligation. ana MAO MAO
eftepwsrS that a builder had bought the bankers
house and IN the course of the demohtlon nao T
covered the note hidden in creVice OF the chi'i-
How a banknote once saved a mans lie is
most romantic story. , ,, ,,..rs
ago Bank of England note-now in possession OF
a famous collector-was paid into Liverpool iner-
On coming into the hands of the cashier he
found while examining 1t TO discover its genu1e ge1t
upon it. The note had been in circulation d Ior
years. and it was only ~ dnt OF t ex1ra0ra 5vers
finally deciphered ara .x,. ,+.
This was the message It bore: IF this note
hill near Carlisle he will learn thereby that his
brother is languishing prisoner In Alg1eTs-
Mr. Dean was communicated with, anu ne dp-
neaJed to the government to endeavor to obtain
his brothers release from captivity: .. .h
PINE Minister and the joint Foreign Secretaries.
after the most arduous and determined Inquiries,
learned that the unhappy prsone+ wtG fnnsd in his
own blood had been slave to the Dey OF Aislers
for about eleven years -.,.oa.5 &, ran
soing Mr. Dean from the Dey but but the RGSoE s
while after his freedom--CPearson's Weekly