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THE MILLIONAIRES OF AMEEICA.

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Employer to clerk Don't know the man's address ? Well, wlite ta him and find out." One of the most delicate way of taking revenge on a neighbour is to make his boy a present of a drum. Geoerally you never value a thing adequately until after you have lost it; but this does not apply to bashfukess. Your ha' -7 is very small for its age, don't you think Yes, the poor darling was fed on con densed milk." It was very ungallant in the old bachelor who was told that a certain lady had one foot in the grave," to ask if there wasn't room for both feet." A pudent matchmaking mamma gave the following candid advice to her daughter: "Oh, marry the man you lovo, prl;< if he is as rich as Croesus!' Yes," said Fogg, "IVff'mei with many suc- cesses in life. That's the friable, you know. The things a fellow meets are alW'S^a going the other way." A German inventor bas devised a machine for deadening the sound of a piano. Next to a machine for deadening pianist this is a splendid discovery. A man who went fishing to a-private pond in a suburban town complains that he only got one bite, and that was from a dog whose master owns the pond. The wearing of false hair was introduced into England from France in 1572. The practice was introduced into the latter country from Italy, where it originated. The following notice is conspicuously posted in an office :—" Shui this door, and as soon as you have done talking on business, serve your mouth in the same way." Jinks (at Mrs Tiptop's reception)—" I'm in luck for once. I know the hostess." Blinks (intent on the good things of life)-" I'm in a greater luck I know the waiter." A physician has discovered that the older a man grows the smaller his brains becomes. This ex- plains why the young men know everything and the old men know nothing. Pa, what does a wooden wedding mean ?' Pa, looking over the paper-" It means, my son, that if the wedded party were free they wooden get married again. That's all." Bently—" I understand that the beautiful Miss Beauregard has at last accepted Poseyboy. Has her heart become softened, I wonder ?" Sattly- No, her head, I guess." Little girl (looking at a one legged man)—" Oh, mamma, where was he made 1" Mother—"Made in Heaven, my dear." Litte girl—" Why don't he go back and get finished ?" ''What is the national air of this country?' asked a foreigner of Mr Fangle. At present the national air of this country is mighty cold,"replied Fangle, as he buttoned his overcoat closer. It seems to be pretty lonely tavelliag on the road to wealth now-a days, that is, beyond the third or fourth mile stone. The start is a crowded one, but few prove stayers, and the ranks rapidly thin out. The idea that the sound of brass and iron has power to put spirits to flight prevailed in classical antiquity, froaD which it was perhaps inherited by mediaeval Christianity. This was the intention of the passing bell. "Can you tell," wrote Mabel, "what I can do to change the colour of my hair ? It is rei, and I am afraid to use dye." Get rich," wrote the editor in reply, "and the newspapers will change it to auburn or gold. "Well, sir, did you succeed in collecting that bill 1" ";N"o, sir." It's just as I expected. That Jones never pays anything. He's a perfect boor." Why, sir, I found him very polite." In what way ?" He asked me to call again." THE MILLIONAIRES OF AMEEICA. It is a singular fact that most of American mil- lionaires began their business without a dollar of money. According to the statistics of the last national census 75 per cent of the millionaires of America were poor men's sons. These are v ither startling figures, but they can be regarded as incontrovertible. Here are a few instances of men made rich through their own efforts — O. O. Mills, who amassed his 25,000,000 dollars in the Western railroads and mines, was once a clerk in a grocery store. His son-in-law, the owner of the New York Tribune, is the present Minister cf the United States to France. Cyrus W. Field, the proprietor of the Atlantic cable, was once a clerk in Art. Stewart's Store at one dollar a week. He was afterwards a suc. cessful junk dealer. C. P. Huntington, one of the railroad kings of the Pacific slope, now a resident of this city, has made his 50,000,000 dollars since he gave up his butter and egg business John D. Rockafeller, president of the Standard Oil Company, is worth 70,000,000 dollars, and has an income of 10,000,000 dollars a year. He began life a poor boy. Mr Rockafeller differs from Russell Sage in his generosity. He recently allowed his daughter to marry a poor young Baptist preacher, and gava the couple a cheque for 1,000,000 dollars as a wedding gift. Joseph Pulitzer, the owner of the New York World, which brings him an income of nearly 1,000,000 dollars a year, was a coachman in St. Louis less than 25 years ago. Charles Crocker, another Cahfomian railroad magnate, who now lives in New York, gathered together 40,000,000 dollars since he has attained manhood, and with no capital save his own brains and pluck. John W. Mackay, the Bonanaza king, was a poor miner 20 odd years ago. He is now worth from 28,000,000 dollars to 50,000,000 dollars, and is the chief owner of the Mackay and Bennett Atlantic Cable. P. T. Barnum, the king of showmen, was once a barkecher in the Metropolitan Hotel. He is worth 10,000,000 dollars, and has been a total abstainer for thirty years or more. Among the other self-made millionaires who have large business interests in New York, but made their names in other cities, are Senator Leland Stanford, of California, who is worth 40,000,000 dollars. He gave 20,000,000 to found a University in memory of his dead son.. He was once a penniless lawyer in Wisconsin and went to California, because his law library had been destroyed by fire, and he had no money to replace U Mr Marguirs George Pullman, the 20,000,000 dollar sleeping and palace car manufacturer, was once a clerk in a furniture shop. George W. Childs, owner of the Philadelphia Ledger, was an errand boy before he made up his mind to be a millionaire. He is now worth 41,000,000 dollars, and gives away half of hie income in charities. John Wannamaker, the Postmaster-General in President Harrison's Cabinet, has the largest store in the United States in Philadelphia. He is the son of brickmaker, and worked in a book store at 1 dollar 25 cents a week. Andrew Carnegie came here from Scotland without a dollar. He now pays the foreman of his Pittsburg iron mills 25,000 dollars a year, and he is worth not less than 15,000,000 dollars. Senator Philetus Sawyer, of Michigan, made his 10,000,000 dollars after be had grown to be a man. He now owns millions of acres of pine land in Michigan, and it takes 75 miles of fencing to sur- rnnnd his ranch in Texas. Mark Hopkins was a hardware merchant m Sacramento, California, when the Pacific Railroad was projected. He left his widow 40,000,000 dol- lars. f Philip Armour, the great pork-packer of Chicago, is worth 20,000.000 dollars, all made by himself. He is at his office at seven o'clock every morning, and does not leave his desk until six in the evening. These are among the most prominent living millionaires. The roll of the dead would require double the space. But enough names have been given to bear out the statement made in a previous letter that America offers its poor man an equal I chance with its rich; and if the statistics of the past afford any rule for the future, the poor boy of to-day has a better chance now to be a millionaire (t of the next generation than the son of a millionaire 1 of the past.

j CAPTAIN VERNEY'S VICTORY.

CARNARVON BOARD OF GUARDIANS.

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GRAND WELSH FESTIVAL AT LLANDUDNO.

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