Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1889 — A Curious Discovery. [ARTICLE]

A Curious Discovery.

A curious discovery connected with the recent disastrous fire at Spokane Falls, Montana Territory, is reported by a local paper. A safe becoming cracked by the intense heat, the books inside were charred and baked to a blackened crisp, though they remained intact. Not a figure could be read. One of the bookkeepers, while turning over the leaves, noticed that where his finger, which was wet, touched the page the figures became legible. He procured a paint brush, dipped it in water and dampened the whole page, and was gratified to see all the figures dimly outlined. Two bookkeepers than went to work, and by wetting the pages and carefully turning the leaves succeeded in a few days in transferring all the accounts to" a new set of books. “Well, my dear, what did you think of Dr. Verbose’s sermon this morning V” “Why, I was very much surprised. I never knew before that the apparently simple text he chose was so hard to explain.”