Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1879 — Pigtails at the Bank. [ARTICLE]

Pigtails at the Bank.

Two Chinese laundrymen in Cincinnati were in good luck the other day, and a bank teller was in correspondingly bad luck. The Celestials took $259 in bills and silver to the bank to get it exchanged for more convenient gold. The teller counted out the money, and the Chinamen gobbled the yellow pile and left the bank in a hurry, without counting it. Soon the unlucky teller found that he had paid them S4OO, nearly twice as much as they were entitled to. He hunted up the lucky Celestials, but they would not disgorge. In fact, they made light of the matter, and laughed at the teller and the officers. They understood very well that they had done nothing criminal with which they could be charged. They had simply taken what the bank officer had given them and got away with it. The teller tried his best to get the innocents arrested and squeezed, but without avail. There was nothing to charge them with, so he charged himself with the amount of his blunder on the bank books. He is now of the opinion that the Chinese are a curse to this country and wants them driven out. — St. Louis Bepublican.

Dr. McCosh, of Princeton College, is a good debt-raiser. During his administration $2,500,000 has been given to that institution, and now the last $120,000 of its debt is lifted by friends who wisely stipulate that the college mustn’t hereafter live beyond its income. A Nebraska City woman not only listened at a key-hole, but fired through it at a man whose talk offended her.