Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1895 — An Expensive “Chaw." [ARTICLE]

An Expensive “Chaw."

Washington Dispatch, Jan. 11. Controller Eckels received a letter from a farmer in Ripley county, Indiana,. a few days ago, inclosing the remnant of a national bank note of the denomination of $5, which the writer desired todiave redeemed. “Jt belonged to a farmer who is a neighbor of mine,” said the writer. “On Christmas day he got drunk, and while in that condition reached into his pocket for a twist of country tobacco, to take a chew, and drew out this bill, which was in a roll in his pocket, and before he had discovered his mistake he had chewed up and swallowed a part of the bill. He is a poor man with a large family, and can’t afford to lose the money.” There was no legal objection to the redemption of the bill, and the Controller returned $5 to the writer. Do not neglect wounds <no matter how slight) from dull or rusty instruments that might produce lockjaw. They should be immediately soaked in hot brine: and the emoke from bucniiig woolen rags will also prove beneficial. ’