Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1893 — Big Bank Notes. [ARTICLE]

Big Bank Notes.

It is said that two notes fer one hundred thousand pounds each and two for fifty thousand pounds each were once engraved and issued. A butcher who had amassed an immense fortune as an a'my contractor in war-time went with ooe of the fifty thousand pound notes to a private banker, asking for a loan of five thousand pounds, and wished to deposit the large note as security with the bank, stating that it had been in his possession for several years. The jum asked for was of course handed over at once; but the financier took occasion to Lint to the holder the folly of which he was guilty in hoarding such a sum and so sacrificing the interest. “That is all very true and sound sense, sir,” replied the man; “but I likes the look o’ the critter so very well that I have got t’other one of the same at home.” A wealthy but eccentric gentleman in London ouce framed a bank postbill for thirty thousand pounds and exhibited it in his study. At his death, which occurred five years later, the extraordinary picture was promptly taken down from the wall and cashed by his heirs. It is said that several years ago, at a nobleman’s house in the neighborhood of the Marble Arch, a dispute arose about a certain passage which was declared to be scriotural. A learned dean who was present denying that there was any such text in the sacred volume, a Bible was called for. After quite a search a dusty old Bible which had lain upon a shelf since the death of the peer’s mother was produced. When the volume was opened, a book-marker was found in it which upon examination proved to be a bank post-bill for forty thousand pounds. Why it had been placed there was never discovered. Perhaps the lady had thought it a good means of inducing her son to search the Scriptures.