How Some Men Become Rich

We make the following extract from the recent lecture of the celebrated biographer, 3YIr. .Tainos Parton, on "Kinga of Business." The house of Isaac Rich & Co., of Boston, is now the leading house in the tish truda of that city, and has a reputation for fair and honorable dealing coextensive with the continent : Isaac Bich, who left a million and three-quarters a year or two ago to found a college in Boston, began business thus : At 18 he oame from Cape Cod to Boston with $3 or $4 in his possession, and Iooked about for something to do, rising early, walking far, observing closely, reflecting much. Soon he had an idea : He bought three bushels of oysters, hired a wheel-barrow, found a pice of board, bought six small plates, six iron forks, a three-cent peppor-box, and one or two other things. He was at the oyster-boat, buying his oysters, at 3 o'clock in the morning, wheeled them three miles, set up his board near a market and began business. He sold out his oysters as fast as he could open tbem at a good proñt. He repeated this experiment morning after morning until he had saved f 130, with wliich he bought a horse and wagon, and had fíve cents left. " How are you going to board your horse ?" asked a stable keeper, who witnessed this audacious transaction. " I am going to board him at your stable." " But you're a minor," replied this aoute Yankee. "And, mind, 1 can't trust you more than a week." The next morning the lad who had established a good credit with oystermen, bought thirteen mshels of remarkably fine oysters, which ie Bold in the course of the day at a proit of $17. So he was able to pay for hia ïorse's board. And right there in the ame market he continued to deal in oysers and fish for forty years, became king f that business, and ended by founding college ; thus affording a new illustraon of Prof. Agassiz's theory that the onsumption of fish is serviceable to the rain. -