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Nasby in Exile

Chapter 8 SOME NOTES AS TO THE INVESTMENT OF ENGLISH CAPITAL, AND ALSO BRITISH PATENT MEDICINES.

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rs and bogus schemers get their claws into English moneybags, is something astounding. Perhaps it is because the nation has so much money that it don't know what to do with

and seeking investment, and the man who has just enough money at three per cent. to live upon very closely, is always anxious to increase his income by making it six. Every man who has just money enough to drink beer, has an insatia

nized for developing something in all parts of the world, and these

that there are a good many of these gentry who are as impecunious as anybody else, and who would do a piece of roguery for enough to live upon comfortably upon the continent, a

rtisements of projected companies. The first is for the "Acquiring and

e in it. Then comes the bankers-nothing in London is complete without a banker-then solicitors, then brokers. Afte

eet," and so on. Then comes a very complete table showing the profit that has been made mining in Venezuela, and after this a statement from "Mr. George Atwood, A. M. Inst., C. E., F. G. S., etc., etc.,"-it would not be complete without all these initials, even to the

lars each. You are asked to pay the moderate sum of sixty-two cents on application, wh

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shows that twenty per cent. has been made in Venezuela. Why should not the man convert some of his beggarly three per cents. into cash and take a shy at it, as Wall street would say, and set up his carriage on the profits? True, he don't know one of the Sir

he purpose of catching just such gudgeons as he is, knowing, for they know human nature, that

e world so well supplied with fish as London, in fact the supply is far beyond the demand, and there is no city which has cheaper sea food. There being innumerable private firms in the business, and there being fish markets everywhere, it would be supposed that a man of fair intelligenc

kinds of mines in England, Spain, Algeria, India, and everywhere under the sun, companies proposing to buy vast tracts of land in

chewed off at the heel, and whose coats bear unmistakable evidence of having passed through the renovator's hands a great many times, and would again if their proprietors only had the one-and-nine pence necessary, or had another to wear whi

nce, and one introduces himself, cla

ing here?" is yo

ear. I came over to place

you get

Five hundred thousand dollars is a good sum, and then I retain a half interest in it. It will make me all the money I shall ever want. By the way have you met any of the nobil

e next day he will be waiting for you, and he will volunteer to go about with you in so persistent a way that you cannot refuse without being brutally blunt, and after taking you to all s

s you part with him, he will t

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been here so long that I have exhausted my ready money, and my remittances did not come by the last steamer,

ittle pocket-m

American Exchange

er give

e gets down to five shillings you give it

ugh, and he will find some credulous Englishman who will bite at the naked hook, and put his name and influenc

oubtless started a private school, if she was qualified for it, or made use of her one accomplishment, painting, music or what not, to earn a miserable existence. The poor clerk who was saving to purchase a home of his own, went back to his lodgings and put his nose freshly up

here are children born every day, a certain percentage of them with sharp teeth, and the rest with fat. The teeth find the fat, the shark finds the gudgeon invariably. That's his business. When I read these prospectuses I find myself getting up a great deal of respect for the old barons who, when they wanted money, seized a

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them a simple taking of what they wanted without circumlocution. It was high

and draft in the army all these fellows. And the regiments composed of them should lead every forlorn hope, charge every battery, and do all the da

ewit? I used to think it an overdrawn picture, but it

face everywhere. The walls fairly shine with the advertisements of remedies for every disease known to the faculty, and when that supply runs out the ingen

r every animal that man has subjugated and brought subservient to his will. There are certificates from Lords, and Dukes, and Honorables, as to the efficiency of Hobson's Vermifuge, though with these it is a

every remedy ends w

's remedies are respectfully requested to particularly observe the label on the bottles. The name of "Hobson" is printed on the steel engrav

f the shopman, who, knowing that the remedy is only three days old, and that there are no imitations, a

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ty dressed, and walking the streets with the physical perfection of a prize fighter, and underneath, "After taking Gobson's Elixir." Transparencies at night flash forth the miraculous virtues of "Hopkins' Saline Draught," and there isn't an inch of dead wall anywhere that has not its burden of announcements. Long proce

e boards were a little uncomfortable in the Summer,

on which it rests, which is to ply up and down the beautiful Thames, bearing upon either side the announcement of a liver pill. The proprietor gives him ten thousand dollars for the use of it

which ours are not, always. The English shoemaker who turns doctor, employs the best literary talent at command to write his announcements, and he pays more liberally than the magazines do

general health, and the Englishman is about the heartiest eater on the globe. He is more than hearty-he verges very closely upon the gluttonous. Consequently he needs medicines, and the manufacturers adapt themselves to the market. There are more than a thousand "after din

is not in the best repute. Many brewers have been knighted, but no patent medicine man. In the matter of ennoblin

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Nasby in Exile
Nasby in Exile
“Nasby in Exile by David R. Locke”
1 Chapter 1 THE DEPARTURE, VOYAGE, AND LANDING.2 Chapter 2 LONDON, AND THINGS PERTAINING.3 Chapter 3 THE DERBY RACES, WITH SOME OTHER THINGS.4 Chapter 4 WHAT THE LONDONERS QUENCH THEIR THIRST WITH.5 Chapter 5 HOW LONDON IS AMUSED.6 Chapter 6 MADAME TUSSAUD.7 Chapter 7 THE LONDON LAWYER.8 Chapter 8 SOME NOTES AS TO THE INVESTMENT OF ENGLISH CAPITAL, AND ALSO BRITISH PATENT MEDICINES.9 Chapter 9 PETTICOAT LANE.10 Chapter 10 THE TOWER.11 Chapter 11 TWO ENGLISH NUISANCES-DRESS AND TIPS.12 Chapter 12 PORTSMOUTH.13 Chapter 13 WESTMINSTER ABBEY.14 Chapter 14 SOME ACCOUNT OF AN AMERICAN SHOWMAN, WITH A LITTLE INSIGHT INTO THE SHOW BUSINESS.15 Chapter 15 RICHMOND.16 Chapter 16 FROM LONDON TO PARIS.17 Chapter 17 A SCATTERING VIEW OF PARIS.18 Chapter 18 SOMETHING ABOUT PARIS AND THE PARISIANS.19 Chapter 19 THE PARISIAN GAMIN.20 Chapter 20 HOW PARIS AMUSES ITSELF.21 Chapter 21 THE LOUVRE.22 Chapter 22 THE PALAIS-ROYAL.23 Chapter 23 FRENCH DRINKING.24 Chapter 24 PARISIAN LIVING.25 Chapter 25 IRELAND.26 Chapter 26 BANTRY.27 Chapter 27 AN IRISH MASS MEETING.28 Chapter 28 SOME LITTLE HISTORY.29 Chapter 29 ENGLAND, IRELAND, SCOTLAND-ROYALTY AND NOBILITY.30 Chapter 30 PARIS TO GENEVA31 Chapter 31 SWITZERLAND-SOMETHING MORE ABOUT GENEVA AND THE SWISS OF THAT ILK-THE LAKE AND RIVER.32 Chapter 32 CHILLON AND OTHER POINTS.33 Chapter 33 FROM GENEVA OVER THE ALPS.34 Chapter 34 OVER THE ALPS-THE PASS TêTE NOIRE.35 Chapter 35 GOING UP THE MOUNTAIN.36 Chapter 36 IN SWITZERLAND.37 Chapter 37 LAKE THUN AND BEYOND.38 Chapter 38 LUCERNE AND THE RIGI.39 Chapter 39 ZURICH AND STRASBURG.40 Chapter 40 BADEN-BADEN AND THINGS THEREIN.41 Chapter 41 HEIDELBERG.42 Chapter 42 AN INLAND GERMAN CITY-MANNHEIM.43 Chapter 43 FROM MANNHEIM TO FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAINE.44 Chapter 44 DOWN THE RHINE.45 Chapter 45 COLOGNE, ITS CATHEDRAL AND OTHER THINGS.