The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-06-01
ODD MESSAGE ON MONEY.
Bunker Tells OF Whimsical Inscrip-
tion On Bills He Has Seen.

Banker Tells OF Whimsical Inscrip-
ton On Bills He Has Seen.
New York Sun.
All men who have money are not
spendthrifts, said a Nassau bank
e. who has been handling all sorts
Of money for 40 years. I'm proof
Of this, l have data taken from
many bills showing that somebody
held them long enough to indulge
in odd and funny comments.
1T began this way: When | was
Il receiving teller a deposition han
Ell in some money. On one of the
bills was written this in red ink,
Shake the bottle. remember
that | asked the depositor if he had
the bottle with him. After that I
got in the habit of looking carefully
at the back Of bills to see if they
had any curious Endorsement. In
the course of a few years | had a
collection.
Il received $500 bill one day
that had the Ten Commandments
pasted on its back. Another bill
handed i'll by a depositor who is in
the liquor business had on it's back
q slip that had the following print
ed on il, Touch not, taste not. han-
die net
Il found n So bill one lay that
had written on the back, in wo-
mans chirography, an offer OF mar
riage. The offer read, L send this
out into the world hoping that it
may return to me with "a good man
VINO will love me and take care of
me- The writer neglected to write
tne lame and address.
Il have $5 bill framed as Il
souvenir. The bill has a hole in it,
the edges slightly scorched. A note
below the hole explains that the
hole was made by bullet fired by
a train robber. The money was in
the pocketbook of an express mes
senger. He gave it to one of our
depcsitors who gave it to me for
my collection.
AN importer of this city was in
Japan ten years ago. In some
transaction over there he gave n
Japanese financier a $40 bill on
which he placed his monogram, in
such small characters that they can
only be seen with the aid of a
microscope. Only few weeks ago
the bill came into the importers
possess Oh through .notnc. ianh.
"A y" e. ago went L. Chicago
and gave the sleeping car conduct
or a So bill which | had previously
marked. Ten days after, in return
ing, another conductor i'll making
change handed me the same bill. |
Told this to a friend of mine, who
said that he gave the porter of a
sleeping car 81 bill and that he
had never seen il since. That was
was one of the funny incidents con-
nected with my mania
''If it hast been destroyed, there
Is bill floating around the coun-
try somewhere that has a physicians 8
prescription, a sure cure for grip
written across tie back OF it. |
have had that bill pass through my
hands.
Il had bill one time that con-
tanned this: If this should fall into
the hands of Joshua Grubb, he
will please communicate his address
to his brother, Robert Grubb, Gen
eral Delivery, Bosom, Mass, before
January 10, 1900. After that in
England, he knows where
One Of the funny Endorsements
that l recall was this on a dollar
bill: You are all the world to me. ;
Another that came my way had this
4 am awfully stuck on YOU
Il have friend in another bank
Who has a collection of bills on
which are drawn in various colors
pictures of animals, houses and
strange figures and devices. The
collection has face value of over
$500. One of the bills has an ex-
cellent picture of his little girl. He
does not know any artist and will
probably never know who made the
picture. In fact he is not sure the
picture was intended to represent
his daughter, and that makes it all
the stranger to him. He has that
bill framed and it hangs in his Ii
brary."