Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1905 — Still Solvent. [ARTICLE]

Still Solvent.

The departing American who stood on the dock at Liverpool and announced, “If there’s any man, woman or child In the British Isles or on the continent of Europe that hasn’t received a fee, let me know it now,” w'ns not alone in his consciousness of being “done.” The Washington Post tells of a gentleman who Avent to pay his bill at a fashionable Florida hotel, and received a statement Avhich showed him to be indebted to the bouse to the extent of a hundred and twenty-four dollars. He had been there hut four days, and the estimate seemed to him a little extreme. Ilow’ever, he did not flinch. Taking out a huge roll of bills, he extended it to the cashier and said, “Guess again. I’ve got more money than that.”