Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1899 — Without Ceremony. [ARTICLE]

Without Ceremony.

More or less ceremony usually accompanies the laying of a corner-stone, but the Chicago Tribune records an instance where one was laid quite simply. Two men were talking of the fortune of a third. “Yes,” said one, “he made his first lucky strike in eggs. He bought ten thousand dozen at a low figure, put them In cold storage, and sold them at a profit of more than 200 per cent. That was the corner-stone of his enormous fortune.” “Ah,” said the other, “then the hens laid It!"