Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1893 — Important, If True. [ARTICLE]

Important, If True.

A confectioner, being curious as to the weight of 600 pennies, placed them in a paper bag on a confectioner’s scales and found that they weighed three pounds five and a quarter ounces. “Briggs a good business man?” ‘I should say he was. He was born with a fortune,*you know.* “Well?" “He’s got it yet.”—New York Recorder. Truth should be tempered by expediency.