Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1878 — One Way of Becoming Wealthy, [ARTICLE]

One Way of Becoming Wealthy,

John Rhodes, of Hounslow, England, dressed as a tramp, denied himself the necessaries of life, and took to the road. He lately died, and his fortune was found to be over £IOO,OOO. The man bequeathed it to various metropolitan charities. A similar instance of eccentricity occurred in Marseilles. The object of the miser was to build an aqueduct to convey water into the city free, and it was done. During the life of the Frenchman he was ridiculed, despised, and, like Stephen of old, came near being stoned on account of his rags and his meanness.

Charles Napier, an English scientist, prescribed a vegetable diet as a cure for intemperance. The relinquishment of meat for six or seven months, he asserts, will destroy a desire for alcohol in the most aggravated cases.