The New Orleans Picayune tells the following story concerning one of the philanthropists of that city in bygone days:— “It happened once that a wandering Oriental missionary visited our city with a view of obtaining subscriptions to erect a Christian chapel in Jerusalem. The subscription paper contained an appeal to all good Christians, setting forth the persecutions of the Christians by the Jews, and making serious charges against the latter. “This paper was presented to a very prominent and liberal bank president of this city, who was also an elder deacon in one of our Christian churches. This gentleman, on reading the preamble of the paper, remarked that Mr. Judah Touro was the most liberal and philanthropic rich man in the city, and that the missionary had better take the paper to him first, and he would promise to contribute half as much as Mr. Touro would subscribe. “Now, Mr. Touro was a very earnest Israelite, who was not likely to be much pleased with the charges against his own faith and people contained in the paper to which he was invited to affix his signature. “Accordingly, when it was presented to him, the good old man read carefully this no doubt exaggerated picture of the misconduct of his own brethren, and then inquired in his mild way of the Christian: ‘Who sent you to me for this purpose?’ ‘It was Mr. P.;’ he said you were the most charitable gentleman in the city, and that he could only promise to subscribe half as much as you.” “‘He made that promise, did he?’” “‘Yes, sir!’ most emphatically.” “Then the old Israelite without guile took down his check-book and slowly and deliberately filled up a check for fifteen hundred dollars, which he gave to the missionary on condition that his name should not appear on the subscription-paper, and that he would repair immediately to his friend P. and exact of him the fulfillment of his promise to subscribe half that sum. We believe that the missionary faithfully performed his engagement, and the facetious Christian elder was thus compelled to make the largest contribution he ever made for a Christian mission. “This was another example of ‘the Jew’s revenge,’ and the only manifestation ever given, through his long life, of the existence of this passion in the breast of the noblest of New Orleans philanthropists.”—Sel.