Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1883 — Brilliant Financial Stroke. [ARTICLE]

Brilliant Financial Stroke.

A gentleman riding along the road near Del Valle saw a shiftless looking fellow seated on the top rail of a fence whittling, and he said to him: “See here, my friend, you ought to be at wotk, not sitting there on the fence whittling.” “I made $5 here yesterday, and I reckon that pays. ” “Made $5 whittling on a fence. I would like to know' how you did it. ” “Why, you see, Cap, if I hadn’t been here I’d have gone to Austin and got drunk. Then they would have fined me $5, so I consider that I am just that much ahead, don’t you ?” “Yes, yes, you are right,” said the man; “you keep right on at that rate and you will be a Jay Gould before you know it.” —Texas Siftings. On the ostrich farm near Anaheim, Cal., ostrich chicks are being hatched at the rate of one a day. When they first come out of the shell they are nearly the size of a half-grown duck. They eat ravenously, and grow very rapidly.