| Show LIKED CONTACT WITH GOLD peculiar vagaries that ha have haj J Affect affected eo men possessed of sudden and great wealth A parisian journalist who had bad spec in railway shares won francs as the result of a lucky zu ven ture drawing it jr in gold he proceeded to a hotel emptied the bags of gold in the bed and went to sleep seep liter ally in the sands of pactolus the man was fo 60 crazed by his good tor for tune that he found indescribable pleasure in reveling in a golden bath PagAn int the violinist when be received the proceeds of his concerts he insisted upon being paid in gold used to wash his bands in sovereigns A french novelist Sor lle wrate a book called the ble memoirs of the devil it was successful the pub lishers fishers paid him for the first volume in n gold the author carried ared the gold to lo his bis bedroom pou pota sd d it nto into a foot bath and enjoyed for naif in an hour the excitement excite men of moving his feet to and fro in a bati of gold coins smoking meanwhile the biggest of havanas A chicago merchant me great wealth believing certain symptoms indicated that he would become insane consulted a specialist and under his bis advice became an inmate of a private asylum for twelve years there his recreation ion was piling up gold coins and then knocking aern em over at times limes he be washed his hands in gold eagles and half engl eagles acs ics at the end of 0 the long seclusion be returned to his business and in twelve months confirmed the thoroughness of his ry rr by amassing |
