APPENDIX. We subjoin a desk displaying the common wage or wages in 100 of the main occupations. In most instances the figures have been compiled from authorities experiences, however the place no experiences may very well be obtained an estimate has been made by taking the common receipts from sure districts. In the latter cases, […]

ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE FORTUNE – CHAPTER XXXV. HIGHLY PAYING OCCUPATIONS. Some Golden Plums–What Electrical Experts Get–The Confidential Man–Rapid Rise of an Advertising Agent–Editors in Clover–Railroad Presidents Come High–A $25,000 Engineer–The Paying Berths in Medicine–Some Astonishing Lawyers’ Fees–What Vanderbilt Paid a Steamboat Man. There are some positions during which huge salaries are paid. They

ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE FORTUNE – CHAPTER XXXIII. FORTUNE IN ODDS AND ENDS. How a Family Saved $100 on a Salary of $700. Economy is kind of as massive an element as trade within the gaining of a fortune. With folks residing on small incomes, it’s usually the one aspect that determines whether or

ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE FORTUNE – CHAPTER XXXII. FORTUNE IN SPARE TIME. Fortunes in Spare Moments–Millions Missed for Want of Economy of Time–Stories of Famous Men. Lost! someplace between dawn and sundown, two golden hours, every set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is obtainable, for they’re gone perpetually. 962. FIVE MINUTES A DAY

ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE FORTUNE – CHAPTER XXXI. WHERE TO INVEST MONEY. What Shall I Do with My Money?–Enormous Profits in Trust Companies–The Most Costly Bell within the World–The Bell Telephone–Edward Bellamy’s Vision–The Best Paying Stocks–$11 per Day in a Lodging House–How a Young Man Made $10,000–How to Start with Nothing and Be Worth

ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE FORTUNE – CHAPTER XXX. FORTUNE IN SPECULATION. True Stories which can be Stranger than Fiction–Fortune’s Great Army–The Rise of Jay Gould–The Meteoric Career of James Fisk–Ferdinand Ward, the Napoleon of Finance–How Vanderbilt Made a Million in a Day–A Man who was Devoured by each Bulls and Bears–Some Rules for Timid

ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE FORTUNE – CHAPTER XXIX. MISCELLANEOUS WAYS OF MAKING FORTUNE. Odd Ways of Making Fortune–Millions for Cents–How to Live Without Paying Rent–X-Rays and X-Bills–Fortunes in Old Iron–Newspapers, Like Wine, Increase in Price With Age–High Price for a Wig–900 per cent. Profit in Old Books–What the “Old Furniture Man” Makes–The Five-cent Millionaire–Profits

ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE FORTUNE – CHAPTER XXVIII. FORTUNE IN WASTE MATERIAL. The American People Waste More Fortunes than Other Nations Make–The Shoreditch Experiment in England–The Tonner System of Germany–Millions in Ashes–Coal Fortunes Waiting to be Picked Up–Astonishing Possibilities in Irrigation–Tons of Tin Thrown Away Every Day–$5,000,000 Lost in Sulphur Every Year–A Fortune Waiting

ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE FORTUNE – CHAPTER XXVI. FORTUNE IN THE FOREST. Unappreciated and Unappropriated Wealth in Trees–$5,000,000 Burned in Florida Forests–Reckless Waste of Timber–An Opportunity to Gain Prosperityin Paper Cane–Chances in Cedar–Small Spools Help to Wind Great Fortunes–How Some People Throw Away $50,000 a Year. There is likely extra fortune within the forests

ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE FORTUNE – CHAPTER XXVII. FORTUNE IN THE SEA. The Magician who Makes Gold Swim–$30,000,000 in a Shoal of Cod–200 per cent. Profits in Salmon–How French Sardines are Made in Maine–Vast Fortune in Bivalves–John Bull, Brother Jonathan, and the Seal Fisheries–Chasing a Greenland Whale–Old Salts who Have Made their “Pile”–Why Salt