Show A Diminutive Millionaire Jacob Seligman is the smallest millionaIre million-aIre in the world He is hardly more than 4 feet high and he strikes you comically as having just stepped out of a museum collection Pardon me but he wont be offended Nobody gets more fun out of his size or rather want of size than ho does himself Even when people who intend to make him feel good remark that if he were standing on his money he would boas bo-as big as the lute lamented Irish giant ho smiles and says My littleness is what whatj made me my money And so it did truly In a degree at least In fact he realized the market value of his diminutive size so thoroughly that he bad it copyrighted years ago In the collection of quaint and curious trade marks at Washington you can find his Little Jake He is reputed to be worth about 15000 000 He came from Germany when a boy i end went out to Michigan twentynine years ngo without n dollar He grew iff with the country and managed to seize a pretty big slice of it while the process was taking place He owns a railroad private bank the greater part of a National bank and only he knows what nil besides He is giving himself entirely this sort of thing nowadays It was in a mercantile pursuit however that ho got his big start He ran eleven clothing stores at once in Saginaw It was in that business that his own trademark trade-mark Little Jake did him so much goodCor Philadelphia Press f |