Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1884 — Some Little Satisfaction. [ARTICLE]

Some Little Satisfaction.

A speculator who bad dropped $60,000 in Wall street, inside of throe months, was asked by an acquaintance if he wasn’t sorry that he had invested his money in speculation. “Well, no,” he answered. “If I hadn’t .done so I should have always felt that I might have doubled my money in speculation.” “Wereyou badly reduced?” “So badly that my watch has gone to the pawn-shop.” “It is too bad—too bad!” “Well, I dunno about that. On the one hand I’ve lost my last dollar and poverty stares me in the face, while on the other I have the satisfaction of Snowing that my family is not acquiring habits of extravagance.