Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1877 — A Dreadful Burden. [ARTICLE]

A Dreadful Burden.

There is a quiet, close-fisted okl bachelor in New York city named Peter Goelet, who is estimated to be worth f10.000,000. Being very fond of milk he keeps a cow in a fine pasture near his residence, in the heart of the city,.which, including interest on the vajue of the- pasture, costs him about $2,000, a year—the milk somewhere in the immediate vicinity of eight dollars a gallon. This, they Bay, is the old fellow’s only extravagance. And as for benevolence—why, it is believed by his neighbors that if he were to catch himself in the act of bestowing as much as fifteen cents upon Sny chart;abie object whatever, he would be'so utterly astounded at his wild, reckless, ruinous prodigality that, before he regained his senses sufficiently to know what he was about, he would have himself arrested, arraigned and indicted for a fraudulent attempt to squander his estate. It is understood that a nephew of his will inherit the bulk of his fortune, and, as may readily be conceived, the constant, the consuming anxiety of that you mg man, lest his venerable and passionately-adored relative should an some way sjaatter his wildly-worshiped constitution, or fatally' injure his fondly-cherished health, and wake up some morning and find his dear, precious, idolized sell at the top of that golden stair which all must sooner or later climb, may possibly be described, but can never be adequately imagined by' mortal pen. T 6 have constantly upon your mind a ten-million-doltar uncle, of whom you are the sole heir, is no light matter, you may depend.— Louisville Courier-Journal. —An exchange remarks. “ The only jokes women like to read are those which reflect ridicule on men.” Yes. On taking up a paper, a woman invariably turns to the marriage column.— Exchange.