Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1883 — Hew a Georgian Made $3,000. [ARTICLE]

Hew a Georgian Made $3,000.

There lives a man in this town who claims to be the boss swapper. Ten ,years ago he bought a pocket-knife for $2. He swapped this for a pistol; he. swapped the pistol for a shotgnu, the gnn for a eow, the eow for a horse, and Sold tiie horse, for SSOO. He invested tlie SSOO for the first five years and drew out- $2,000. He lias had the $2,000 ont at interest for five- years at 10 jxr cent., and he new has the result of his knife trade —$B,oooa Canyere Weekly. . t , , I, _ . , ! ! ■ - | nn An iron fence is being built along the banks at Niagara Falls. This will head off suicides, as no nym witli tight trousers, or a woman with a hoopakirt can <dimb t a fWSSe.—-Boa (on PoeL