A young Irishman who settled in Chicago forty years ago, and
found his first employment as driver of a baker’s wagon, has
just retired from business a millionaire. An Italian, then aged
sixteen, who reached Trenton, N. J., thirteen years ago with
barely sufficient money to set up in business as a bootblack,
now owns twenty-three houses, and announces his intention
to take up real estate. Both these passages of contemporary
biography are recorded in the same newspaper. Probably they will
attract little attention or remark. That is to be explained
by the happy circumstance that such progress from poverty is
no exceptional thing in this country, and any community could
match the stories with many that are equally striking.--Boston
_Transcript_.
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=American Prosperity=--See PROSPERITY AS AN ADVERTISEMENT.