It is not so very painful to lose a fortune as it is to hear what your
neighbors will say about it afterwards.
When the prodigal son comes home they no longer kill the fatted calf
for him. They just turn the animal into a vaccine farm and give him
the profits.
A new serial yarn by Besant and Rice is entitled, All Sorts and
Conditions of Men. The plot is probably worked out in the caucus room
of a delegates convention.
“Man Reading,” a picture by Meissonier, has been sold for $10,000. It
was cheap as dirt. The man reading was an editor with a contribution
written on both sides of the paper, and spontaneously interlined
besides.
Our agricultural contemporary, the Herald, has a learned and highly
interesting article on “Our Codfish Culture.” We trust it may be
followed by another, equally able, on “Our Goat Fisheries.” Both are
subjects of intense and universal concern.