STRANGE UTILIZATION OF ADVERSITY.
The French are discussing a question m London. A Frenchman m Loiuon, from thb frequent pawning of his watch, learned that pawnbrokers test the watch by touching an acid to the knob. Fe inherited 15,000 franco and immediately went to Geneva, where ho ordered 200 watches, tho cases of copper, heavily gilt, and the knobs of pure gold , They c-OBt him 40. franca each. lie went to London and m a few days pawned the 200 watches. The pawnbrokers tested the knoba and advanced him 7U francs on each, a &am of 30 francs over the cost. Then he walked about the streets and dropped the pawn tickets here and there, and the persons who found them, all being dishonest, went next day and redeemed the watches. Thus the pawnbrokers ,OBt nothing and tho dishonest finders of the tickets paid 70 irancs for 40 franc watches. As oaly the dishonest persons who found the tickets were victimized, the French moraliste are uncertain whether to condemn the shrewd operator as a swindler.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1674, 28 September 1887, Page 3
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175STRANGE UTILIZATION OF ADVERSITY. Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1674, 28 September 1887, Page 3
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