Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1884 — Slightly Embarrassed. [ARTICLE]

Slightly Embarrassed.

A New Yorker who was in Virginia City last summer received a call one day from a sharp-eyed, wiry little chap, who said he had a few Government bonds to dispose of, and would make a very reasonable discount for cash. “But, my man, the bank will buy them. ” “I guess not.” “Why?” “Because the cashier would be down on me the minit I showed up. ” “I can’t understand why.” “Stranger, you don’t tumble worth a cent, and it becomes necessary for me to explain that these bonds have been gradually acquired by stopping stage coaches and asking passengers to sfyell out. It so happens that the cashier of our leading bank is one of the gentlemen who has shelled, and I reckon he’d remember the bonds even if he had forgotten my phizl” The New Yorker refused to invest, even at 50 cents on the dollar.— Wall Street News.