In the course of business we often come across very queer specimens of writing and eccentricities in signatures. A New York Insurance Company's Vice-President has a signature, as it appears on the policies issued by his company, which is fourteen inches one way and nine inches the other. In our illustration the signature at the top on the left is that of F. S. Watte, teller of an Iowa bank. Immediately under this name is that of John Mohr, Jr., cashier of a bank in Indiana. Under Mohr's signature is that of Tom Randolph, president of a bank in Texas. Directly under Randolph's signature we find a cross-etching which represents the treasurer of a manufacturing company in Connecticut - Hugh Harbison. It ranks high as a curiosity in penmanship. The writing at the upper right-hand corner is that of Carmon Parse, cashier of a bank in New Jersey. The writing in the lower right-hand corner filled the entire page of a letter sheet. The name is that of Jas.V.D.Westfall.

These specimens are interesting, but after all the best form of signature, and the one most difficult to forge, is that written in a plain business style, such as "John Johnston" in the illustration.

Some Curious Signatures.

Business men and bankers are as thoroughly familiar with the signatures of other business men as they are with their faces.