Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 146, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1910 — Only Jar of Its Kind. [ARTICLE]

Only Jar of Its Kind.

Horace Walpole told a ltvely story of an old porcelain vender who had an exceedingly rare and valuable jar on which he set an almost fabulous price. One hot summer a slight volcanic shock, such as the British occasionally experience, jogged his house about his ears and split his porcelain vase. To an ordinary mind the accident would have been calamitous, but the china seller rose superior to fortune. He doubled the price of the article Immediately and advertised ft as “the only, jar in the world which had been cracked by an earthquake.”. Nothing very slow about that. Whether he got his money is not added, but certainly he deserved it.