A LUCKY BOTTLE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 7, 8 January 1914, Page 7

A LUCKY BOTTLE.

LITTLE GIRL WRITES A MESSAGE [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] Times—Sydney Sun Special Cables London, December 30.

The wealthy proprietor ot an American magazine recently visited Europe in company with his little daughter. I On their return she wrote her name and address and put the paper I into a bottle, which she threw overboard in midocean. | Subsequently the Rev. James O’Hannay, canon of St. Patrick’s, Dublin, who is better known as “George A. Birmingham,” the novelist. visited New Tork, and met the (editor of the magazine, who told him It hat the message had been picked up jby a peasant on the west coast of Ireland. I The finder of the message had written to the little gird that he was poor, and had a large family, and ended dry asking for help, j Canon O’Hannay was able to verity the man’s statements, and on Christ- | mf?s morning the-peasant, who is still j unaware of his good fortune, will receive a substantial gift of money from the girl’s father.