A Lucky Purchase

The Manchester Courier says that jnst before the Zulu war there was in Mauritius a stamp collector who was a friund of the local postrnaster. One day he learned that there was to be a clearance of old stock and obtained permisión to buy it all as waste. It occnrred to him that he inight do the samo at other small colonial postoffices and acquire stamps without difficulty. One of bis Mauritius stamps he sold not long ago for $4,250, and, acoording to the Manchester Courier, he has already liiado between 100,000 and $150,000 by his investment. That man or woman who is daiiy ministering to the highest needs of hia and her fellow mortals is au angel in numan form.