Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1892 — They Spoke the Truth. [ARTICLE]

They Spoke the Truth.

In the O’Donnelly papers of sixty years ago Dr. Maginn tells a story of a citizen of London which characterizes admirably those pompous utterers- of truisms, says the American Hebrew. The doctor was sitting one day in a coffee house in the Strand when an elderly gentleman came in, bowed to him, sat down opposite, and after looking over the Times, in which he found a column of business failures, exclaimed: “Forty failures! Well, I have noticed In my sixty years’ experience that any man who lives, beyond his income is sure jo fail at last.” “True, very true,” said Maginn, “and I have noticed during my thirty years’ experience that any man who walks out in the Strand on a rainy day, without an umbrella, is sure to get wet.” “Most true,” said the elderly gentleman; “I like to listen to sensible conversation. ”