RECOVERY OF BANK NOTES.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12421, 10 December 1908, Page 4

RECOVERY OF BANK NOTES.

Ten lOOOfr bank notfs, representing thf saviuga of a womaa who lived at Nanterre, near Paris, were hidden by her in an old envelope, which wag placsl in a draper. In a moment <rf forgetfulness, tile envelope (the "Chronicle " says) found its way into a dustbin. In the morning the rag-pickers turned out the bin, but tossed aside the tattered envelope without iospeotion. Some oarters happened to pass that way. They picked up the now mud-splasbed pieces of naper,one remarking to the other :" Perhaps there ib a fortune inside." Tney drew out the notes. "This is some fool'a pleasantry," they said ; so, by way of revenging themselves on tbe unknown joker,, and. not .believing the notes were genuine they tore them to pieces and threw them aside. Two market women oarae along shortly afterwards. With'- the shrewdness of their class, they; recognised the scattered pieoea of paper and gathered them up aDd took them to the Commissary of Police. There they were placed together, and it was found that none was missing. Two hours later the notes bo nufiouelj' discovered were restored to their owner.