On A Cherry Stone

uesa iserg-er, the actor and newspaper man, has a picture in caligraphy that has a remarkable history. It is in size 30x42 inche.s, and is the work of Joseph Loew the most noted counterfeiter that the Austrian government ever knew. When an application is made for a pardon in Austria the red tape policy of that country compels the applicant to address the emperor with all his titles. Emperor Ferdinand had about forty titles. Loew engraved all of these ñames, together with his petition for a pardon, on a cherry stone. The letters were so fine that it required the aid of a povverful microscope to decipher them. One day when the emperor visited the prison Loew in person presented a cherry stone to the emperor and told him what it eontained. The emperor made an examination, and was so amazed Ut the work that ha grave him an unconditional pardon. Not only did he pardon him, but gave him a position as a detective to trail down counterfeiters. Loew was a well-informed man in all the arts and rascalities of counterfeiters, and in less than two years after his pardon he ran to the earth almost every counterieiter in Austria, and died a few years ag-o eovered with detective honors. The picture, although made fifty years ago, is in a remarkable state of preservation.