TWELVE THOUSAND POUNDS IN A FILTER.
Last December (writes a Paris correspondent) the State came into a ' large fortune which was left it by an old man named Meyer, who said in . his will that he had no relatives. 1 When the inventory of Meyer's goods and chattels was bein<* made a stone * filter was thrown aside because broken 3 and unfit for any use, but the other ] day, when it was being carried away ] as rubbish, a bundle of papers fell out. i On examination they were found to ( be debentures and other stock, pay- i able to bearer, and at the present rate 1 of $e stock ma^et WQrth #2,009, ?
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Bush Advocate, Volume I, Issue 8, 24 May 1888, Page 2
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