Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1882 — Mr. Vanderbilt’s Joke. [ARTICLE]

Mr. Vanderbilt’s Joke.

[London Times.) A number of friends invited Mr. Vanderbilt to take dinner at the League House, and when the champagne had been reached and the party had come to that state of jollity which begets familiar pleasantry, Mr. Vanderbilt offered to bet any or all the gentleman present that they could not guess within five dollars of the price of the suit of clothes he had on. Of course there were plenty of takers. Most of the gentlemen out of politeness and for other obvious reasons named a high figure, from $75 to $125. “Well,” said Mr. Vanderbilt, leisurely, after the bets had all been made, “I guess I’ll take this pool. My suit cost me precisely $25.” The party laughed this unexpected denouement, and Mr, Vanderbilt’s economical tailor was heartily toasted. All this goes to show that Mr. Vanderbilt is a man of cheerful disposition and fond enough of fun to lay down some of the cares of buisness and enjoy himself as a man of his means should. . It broke the fisher all up. He was fishing and a fish-warden stood and watched him and a.man came along and said to that warden : “ It’s out of season to catch fish. Why don’t you arrtet that man ? ” And the warden rephed : “ True, it’s against the law to eaten fish, but there’s no law against a man’s holding a pole with a cord attached dangling in the water. That’s all he hw done, or is likely to dot" * «