Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1883 — He Was a Speculator. [ARTICLE]

He Was a Speculator.

“So you are a prominent business man of Chicago, are you?” aiked a Bloomington man of an all-day-long looking chap. “Yes, sir, I do a great deal of business in my line.” “Pray, sir, what line is that?” “Speculate on the Board of Trade?” “Oh. no, I prefer to be roblmd in a; legitimate way. I speculate on how I can mortgage my countenance for something to gild the silver lining of a very cheeky maD.” The man went away rejoicing.— Bloomington Eye. A cabeeuiaestimate place the losses by fire in this country for eight years at $593,447,609, or $74,180,691 per year. The sum annually paid for insurance is reckoned at $4? ,022,679. It is not enough to have reason; it is spoilt, it is dishonored, by sustaining a brusqqe and haughty manner,— Fene, lon,