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SIDNEY AND ISLANDS REVIEW, SIDNEY, B.C, FRIDAY, JULY 25, 1913

CUNIOUS BANK NOTES THAT
JUMETIMES PASS INSPECTOR

and Other
Defects and Their Results,

Extraordinary Misprints

Oecasionally imperfect or mis-
printed bank note will evade the vigil-
ance of the inspectors of the Bureau
of Wngraving and Printing. The most
extraordinary misprint that ever found
its way into circulation was a $50 Na-
Hional bank note. A clerk in a Western
hotel, in making up his accounts, found
a disecrepaney that could not be ex-
plained. He placed the pile of bills at
his’ left hand, and as he counted each
one, turned the note over and put it
on a pile at his right. He discovered

an

that when he counted from left to
right his cash balanced exactly, but
that when he counted from right to

left there was a shortage of $50. The
elerk spent more than two hours in
trying to find out what was the matter.
Finally, in desperation, he called upon
the cashier for assistance. The cashier
had no better Again and
again he counted the bills, with the
same result—one time the cash would
balance, and the next time it would
show a shortage. Finally, he examined
€ach bill—both face and back—where-
upon the mystery was explained. One
Of the bills bore the design of $50 on
the face and that of $100 on the back.
The clerk had taken the bill for $100.

Upon corresponding with the Trea-
Sury Department, they found that the
department had a record of the bill.
In 1890 one sheet of the bank notes for
a national bank in Kansas had
been reversed in the press. One plate

success.

City

LOST FORTUNES.

People Who Have “Gome Down” in the
World.

We hear a great deal of men who
have made fortunes and “got on,” but
the story of those who have lost them
is generally told in a few lines in the
newspapers, if told at all, and apropos
of a bankruptey, a suicide or a poor
law guardians’ meeting. It is an easy.
matter to lose a fortune if you have a
fortune to lose, but the story and ex-
ample may be just as dramatic and
Striking, and as as an object
as the making of one.

useful
lesson,
Not
erable
Nearly

long since there died in a mis-
Sarret in Paris an old woman
fifty years ago she was a beau-
tiful and talented soprano, with a huge
fortune of her own making and a voice
that could coin gold as easily as the
blackbird can make notes. She sang
in every capital in WBurope, and so
much of a popular idol was she that
she is said to haye netted over £30,000
in one brief London season. Then she
suddenly “dropped out’—why, no one
ever really Imew. JT or thirty years no
one, possibly her relatives and
personal friends, what had be-
come of her until news of her death in
such painful circumstances recalled
forgotten name to the

Save

knew

her almost
public.
Another case well within the recol-
lection of newspaper readers is that of
a Midland merchant who at one time
possessed an fortune. A
bank failure or some big commercial
catastrophe swept it all in an
hour, and after long years of privation

enormous

away

and struggling he was forced to apply
for admittance to the workhouse of the

bore the obverse of a $50 bill at the | Very town he had once been mayor of,

top and the obverse of a $100 bill at the

bottom. The other plate bore the re- |

verse of the two notes. As each sheet

was printed it had been laid aside to| fortune is

dry before being run through for the |
reverse printing. Inadvertently the}
pressman had turned one sheet up- |
Side down, and the result that two mis- |
printed bills came forth—one with a
$50 face and $100 back, and the other
With a $100 face and a $50 back The |
cashier of the bank had been the first
to become aware of the He
found that something was wrong, after
he had paid out the note with the $50
face and ae $100. back,

error.

by :

©1880 notes is found a trea- 5

‘ Sury seal entirely different from any |

other ever used
The key,
portant symbols of the seal, shows a
handle at the left-hand side, instead
of at the right, as on all others. The
shield is of different shape and the
Stars are larger. The two ends of the
band the are
fastened with a buckle, in no |
other instanee forms a part of the de- |
Sign of a treasury seal. This is the
issue of notes on which the pe-

by the government.

which is one of the most im-

surrounding symbols

which

only:
euliar seal was used, and collectors of
paper money include them among the
“freaks.”

Another one-dollar |
note of the Second National Bank of
Ravenna, Ohio. It lacks the signa-
tures of the president and cashier, al-
though it was circulated without chal-

curiosity is a

A one-dollar national bank note
of the First Bank of Fall
River, Mass both signa-
tures, but passed freely for some time
Still
another one-dollar note—ithat of the}
Hirst National Bank of Indianapolis— |
lacks the signature of the president. A
certain legal tender note of 1860
one very feature.

Nationa]

also lacks

before the blunder was observed.

has

face |

Its
of Webster
representation of Rolfe presenting |
Pochontas to Queen Elizabeth, At the}
bottom. of the centre is a small eagle. |
Upon turning this bill upside down the
eagle presents a faithful likeness of a
donkey's head. Whether this was in-
tended by the engraver as a joke is not

curious

bears a portrait and a

known, but the resemblance is so close
that it seems to indicate premeditation

on his part.—Youth’s Companion.

‘in something less than twelve years._

| working mason.
|

)and on which he had conferred lasting

benefits.

The story of these fallen favorites of
writ large in workhouse
records, and this last resource of the
destitute has sheltered men and women
who have had in their possession for-
tunes of hundreds of thousands of
| pounds.

A man charged with begging in a

| London suburb and sent to jail for a

month for vagrancy was found to have
run through an inheritance of £300,000

peuresentalves of great fa

al times of Edward I.
was once butcher “in Birmingham.
Another ar claiming Royal descent
was a toligate keeper near Dudley, and
the great-grandson kept
a grocer’s store on Snow near
Holborn.

We have a record of a Plantagenet
descending from a long line of kings
to earn a living as a cobbler in Shrop-
shire, and a very poor living at that,
and a natural son of Richard JIL, after
the Battle of Bosworth,
bricklayer in a little village in Kent,
and died there in a miserable state of

of Cromwell
Hill,

worked as a

poverty at the age of eighty-one. In
his “History of Birmingham’ Hutton
refers to a milkman in humble circum-
stances include Lady
Godiva of Coventry fame, and descend-
ants of men who made England’s his-
tory are to be found at the present day

whose ancestry

in almshouses and poor law institu--
tions all over the country.

One of the most striking examples
of the vicissitudes of fortune is that of
a member of the Bracebridge family,
immense estates in War-
wickshire of the Stuart.
He was a peddler in the districts over
which his ancestors were lords of the
Hugh Miller tells an amusing
story in one of his works of a laborer
who used to serve him when he was a
This man claimed to
His claim
the men with whom
and it was a
thing with them, on requiring
seryice, to shout, “John, Year] Crau-
ford, bring us another hod of lime!”—
London Tit-Bits.

who owned

in the days

manor.

be entitled to an earldom.
was admitted by
he worked, at any rate,

usual

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