One of the chief living capitalists of Great Britain began his career with a fund somewhat less than thirty shillings; with less than thirty shillings he bought a machine, familiar to us in these days as a potato-cart, but then a novelty in this metropolis.
question of 20.., and all that may be bought there with, but a question of 20.. and the vast sum to which, by scientific plutoculture, it may be raised.  One of the chief living capitalists of Great Britain began his career with a fund somewhat less than thirty shillings; with less than thirty shillings he bought a machine, familiar to us in these days as a potato-cart, but then a novelty in this metropolis.  Starting as the proprietor of the first baked potato cart ever seen in London, this itinerant vendor of a not repulsive esculent, by the end of one calendar month, had, oves and beyond paying his way, quad rupled his original capital.