. 4 Scottish student, supposed to be deficient in judgment, was asked by a professor, in the course of his «xamination, how he would discover a fool.-“By the questions he would ask, ’ was the prompt and suggestive reply. Heavy Losses. “Yes, these are awful times, ’ said a broker, as he stood on his steps talking to a friend. “ I’ve been investing and inventing for a year back—a pile of money, I can assure you—and I find I have been losing If I’ve lest a shilling, I’ve lost more than a hundred thousand pounds.”—“No!”— “ Certain,” continued the broker; “ and what makes me worse is that fully a hundred and fifty pounds of it was my own.”
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Evening Star, Issue 4124, 16 May 1876, Page 3
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114Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 Evening Star, Issue 4124, 16 May 1876, Page 3
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