Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1881 — A Tough Story About Chittenden. [ARTICLE]

A Tough Story About Chittenden.

Simon B. Chittenden, the Brooklyn .millionaire, could tell you a good comet story. He had- a dry-goods store in Hartfqyd, and vas a Millerite. When the comet came he imagined the end of the world was coming, too, and so he opened his store and gave his goods away to anybody who would yalk in and take them. He smiled serenely as a lady walked off with a piece of lace, and cried: “Oh, vanity!” when another lady walked off with a piece of silk velvet. He noticed that nis free customer? chose the most expensive ar-

tides; but, having no use for them in the next world, he laughed and let them So. The appointed day came, but not re end of the world, and Chittenden found himself with a stock reduced to a few cheap calicoes*,‘and the whole town grinning at him. This was more than he could stand, so he gave away the calicoes also and fled to New York, where he and his foolishness were then unknown. It was a lucky move for him, however, for in a ffiw years he was worth his millions.— New York Star.