People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1896 — DIRECT PROOF. [ARTICLE]

DIRECT PROOF.

Chicago Most Be the El Dorado of Departed Americana. Any one who has doubts about reincarnation should take a look at tho Chicago city direotory. It may surprise the general publio to learn that Riohard Wagner, who died several years ago in Bairenth, 1b still doing business in this city as a lawyer, a painter, a clerk and a laborer. Sir Franoia Bacon, who is said to have written Mr. Shakespeare’s plays, is now employed by the Illinois Central road as an architect, while Shakespeare himself is running a restaurant on South Halsted street. Ulysses S. Grant is now engaged in ringing up railway nickels here, while Garfield is making harnesses for a living. Tennyson is now managing a feed store on the West Side. On the South Side he is a olerk, a cabinet maker, a laborer, a lather and a finisher. Dante, the inferno man, is now in the plastering business on North Rookwell street. William Cnllen Bryant is working at the oarpenter’s trade on Carroll avenue. George Washington is doing business here at nine different locations. Thomas Jefferson, who fathered the Democratic party, which seems to have got lost this year, is a house painter on the North Side. Andrew Jaokson has taken to preaching, to bookkeeping and to driving a oab, while Robert E. Lee is a porter in a hotel and also attends the Ohioago university. It may be a matter of contemporary interest also to note that William J. Bryan is running a grocery on Cottage Grove avenue, while William MoKinley is clerking in the Rookery building, runs an engine at 44 Crosby street and lives at 19 Soott street —Frank 8. Pixley in Chioago Times-Herald.