Judge — January 28, 1888 — page 11: what you’re looking at

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GREAT LUCK. Good Fortune that Came by Chasce and Business Sagacity. One cannot help being struck with the impor- tant part the element of chance plays in the his- ry of most men who acquire great fortunes. rly illustrated in the career of ims, a California six millionaire. 1 Kentucky to the Pacific slope in led in Virginia city. As attorney fora mining ce ny, he acquired a.ciaim against it for $1,500 for services, and when the company failed he bid in its mine for the amount of his el Tle moved to San Francisco, years rolled on, and the transaction had passed from his mind, when lw was one approached by a representative of Flood, Mackay & O'Brien, who offered him $101,000 for his long forgotten mine. MW not a greenhorn and heat once refused the offer, as he did successive offers of $250,000 100. But when a meniber of the great see him with proffers of negotiation ted and the interview resulted .000, piece of luck, but the luck was supple y keen business sagacity. In April, 1887, Charles, Spragu an orange grower at Chaseville, Fla., laying in bed, Suilering the * nts of the cuned.” with we of the kidneys, with which he lad been He had been under th an but kept grow- | y as he says, “even If had become inamimate” a ual nee happened in and advised the trial it was a proprietory medi- COOLING. Int the testimonials of its efficacy were 80 De Gean (very enthusiastically winding up)—" And believe me, my angelic Kol, that Romeo ne'er loved his Juliet as convineing, that, as a business man, he could || passionately adore thee. Tam thy devoted slave. Say, O fair sister of Venus,that thou wilt bemine and this bleeding not doubt the wisdom of trying it. ‘The result | beart of Cupid's dart bruised wilt th, 1887, he wrote: “From the Matoxx (interrupting)—Ob, Mr, De Gush, the right end of your mustache is out of curl” [commenced to improve, and have red my dealth.” ns owes his large fortune and Mr. : »wes his life to chance, supplemented by gool business judgment. It is no doubt true that fortune knocks at least once at the door of every it is not every man, it seems, who has xl judgment'to grasp opportunity by the THE GERMAN POLICEMAN ON PROVERBS. an Policeman takes no stock in prov- says that these so-called “truths in popular form” are inost of them falsehoods. In all pr-dability the truth is that he cannot under- stam ; use they are idiomatic or purely figurative. What is the use of trying to get one who does not cle: stand t ish tongue to appre tenices as “A bird inthe hand. is worth t the hush, or “A light heart lifts heavy I * Dot's all humbue y x to lift a heffy load mit is a Chon L. Sullivan vs he, *** beauty is only shkin deep.’ | uf dem broverbs vich effery- | tin his mout. [vas so mat [could t peen shmaller as myself. Fifer sing Lsaw a bictare uf Mr. Holman uf In-| diana tdi he inwended dot broverb. if such beauty vos more as shkin| MW him.°—Thé German Polieenuen exjpsition where the Sohmer pianos | brought into competition with others del Claret—Old and Mellow. intage Co., 21 Park Place, New York. | THE CELEBRATED PIANOS ARE AT PRESENT THE MOST POPULAR ; AND PREFERRED by LEADING ARTISTS | WAREROOMS ; 149 151, 153 155 EAST 14TH STREET N. Y. SOEFIMEE 2 Co., ’ LADELPHIA, PA., 1119 Chestnut St, L. 209 SASA LATIOL TVIV HOA ATIOM AL NI LSGdVAHO ANY LSad AHL SI dVOS SaVvad SOAPMAKERS BY SEALED APPOINTMENT To HRH the PRINCE of WALES. IT PRODUCES HEALTHFUL SKIN, GOOD COMPLEXION AND SOFF, WHITE, BEAUTIFUL HANDS comicbooks.com