Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1859 — The Vagary of an Insanc Man. [ARTICLE]

The Vagary of an Insanc Man.

I re is a man in an asylum in one of the neighb ring States w Ito b-ge’ameinsane io consequence of a f.,ilm-e in business, He explains the c m-e of his incarceration us follows:— ■■ I -:mh r because of a mere in st.'ote Im i:u : a .s. I w s engagi/t! during the winter i:i m iking m .squitoes’ wings, which I expected to sell in the summer. I had ten thousand o! them on h im! when the season opened, mii nijlor'-.imite'v I had forgotten to make tiiem in pairs 1 I’.iey were all lefthand w :tigs, and 1 consequently lost the sale oi them, and was compelled to suspend payment!” He relates this story wiltli'a gravity and e irnestm.-ss which tes'ifi sto the sincerity ol his own belief in the explanation.