A QUICKWITTED IRISHMAN.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3177, 25 April 1879, Page 2

A QUICKWITTED IRISHMAN.

A lecturer recently alluded to the My in which transporting to another land brings out the finer qualities, the shrewd* ness, -and: the; e,pteri»rise:^)f f theirij|ht recounted the following anec'doW"*'l .remember the great conflagration at Sacramento city, Cal., by which" the entire business portion of,the city was laid in ashes. Well, when: the great fire was at its maximum fury, an Irishman named M'Nulty, who owned some of the heaviest business establishments in ■the'cityifired for a few momenta on the work of destrne* tion, and then j instead of folding his hands and weeping over the disaster, he went to the nearest livery stable, hired a fleet* , Hooted horse, rode like John Gilpin during the remainder of the night, and (before daylight next morning had purchased every foot of lumber and every'sawmill at Grass Valley and Nevada city. There is possibly no human being oo earth' woitd think of running off by the light of hit burning property in order to literally make his fortune out of the disaster except an Irishman emigrated to America. The result wa» that he almost >immediately " realised out of the ■aleof#s;Ji*olfi<MwSM> fold as much money as he had lost by the great fire." ; , _____