A RICH PASSENGER WITH NO MONEY.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 112, 30 August 1876, Page 2

A RICH PASSENGER WITH NO MONEY.

There is a story told of Baron Rothschild, of Paris, the richest man of his class in the world, which shows that it is not only " money makes the mare go " (or horses either, for that matter), but (( ready money,'" "unlimited credit" to the contrary, notwithstanding. On a very wet and disagreeable day, the Baron took Parisian omnibus, on his way to the bourse, or exchange, near which the " nabob of finance" alighted, and w# going away without paying. The driver stopped him, and demanded his fare. Rothschild felt in his pockets, but he had not a "red cent" in change. The driver was very wroth. " Well, what did you get in for if you could not pay? You must have known that you had no money." "I am Baron Rothschild!" exclaimed the great capitalist, "and here is mj card." "Never heard of you before," said the driver, '' and I don't want to hear of } r ° tt again. But I want my fare—and I must have it." The great banker was in haste. "I have only an order for a million," h e said. " Give me change," and he proffered a coupon for 50.000 francs. The conductor stared, and the pa ß ' sengers set up a horse-laugh. f) Just then an "Agent de 'Change' came by, and Baron Rothschild borrowed of him the six sous. The driver was now seized with a kino of remorseful respect, and turning to the money king, he said, '' If you want ten francs, sir, I don't mind lending them to you on my own account."