FORGED NOTES IN RUSSIA.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1909, 7 April 1880, Page 3

FORGED NOTES IN RUSSIA.

The Lsrdon " Telegraph " tells the following characteristic anecdote : —Some days ago a tendar-hearted stranger, of well to-do exterior, pageing by the broad stone steps of Warsaw Cathedral, perceived a woman crouched at their foot, weeping loudly and wringing her hands in deep tribulation. Touched by her evident distress, he stopped and asked what was the matter. " Kind, gracious sir," replied the sobbing woman, "I am the most unfortunate creature in the world. I want to get my baby christened, but the pope demands two roubles, and I have not a single copeck." "Is that all t " observed the pitiful stranger ; " take this five-rouble note, go straight to the pope, pay him his christening fee, and bring me out the three roubles change." With joyful promptitude the recipient of his bounty entered the churcb, ■whence she presently emerged with three silver roubles, which she handed over to her benefactor, expressing her heartfelt gratitude for hia timely succour, and her surprise at his apparently disinterested kindness. "My good woman," answered the philanthropist with a beaming smile, " your astonishment is uncalled for. You Bee, lam one of those people who cannot bear to contemplate the irahappinesa of their fellow-creatures. I must always see joyous faoes around me. Besides, everybody concerned in this transaction has profited by ib. The Pope haa got his fee ; your child will be christened ; your mind is at ease ; and I have derived three good silver roubles from a benevolent action and—a bad five-rouble note!"