A Lady going out for the day locked everything up carefully, and for the grocer’s benefit left a card on the back door.
“All out. Don’t leave anything,” it read.
On her return she found her house ransacked and all her choicest possessions gone. To the card on the door was added, “Thanks. We haven’t left much.”
“Edward Everett Hale,” said a lawyer, “was one of the guests at a millionaire’s dinner.
“The millionaire was a free spender, but he wanted full credit for every dollar put out.
“And as the dinner progressed, he told his guests what the more expensive dishes had cost.
“‘This terrapin,’ he would say, ‘was shipped direct from Baltimore. A Baltimore cook came on to prepare it. The dish actually cost one dollar a teaspoonful.’
“So he talked of the fresh peas, the hot-house asparagus, the Covent Garden peaches, and the other courses. He dwelt especially on the expense of the large and beautiful grapes, each bunch a foot long, each grape bigger than a plum. He told down to a penny what he had figured it out that the grapes had cost him apiece.