Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1884 — Not a Cold Day in Wall Street. [ARTICLE]

Not a Cold Day in Wall Street.

Demetrius, the son of Aro, accosted Croesus, the well-known Wall street speculator, one fine morning, as follows: “There be pratings here and there, O Croesus, that the recent disasters in financial circles have jeopardized your fortune. Tell me, if so be, I may deny these rumors.” “Young man,” quoth the Lydian millionaire, “how blows the wind today?” “ Tis southerly,” replied the son of Aro. “And the thermometer—how stands it up against your drug-stcre window ?” asked the famous specnlator. “I do bethink me, ” answered Demetrius, “it showeth 106 degrees in the shade. ” “’Tis well,” said Crops as, with a bitter “Know then, O Bon of Aro, that when the wind is southerly and the thermometer points to the upper side of zero, the conditions are unfavorable to Croesus’ getting left.”— Chicago News.