One Thousand Ways to Make Money by Page Fox

MISCELLANEOUS WAYS OF MAKING MONEY. Odd Ways of Making Money--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 of Peddlers--Why Pawnbrokers Get Rich. The ways of making money are as multifarious as the diversity of human industry. Some men earn a fortune, some discover it, some win it, and some marry it. Every year new schemes are developed for the earning of one’s bread. Many of them are unpromising and even startling, and yet all the great industries that to-day pour wealth into the pockets of the capitalists were once derided as the folly of unpractical dreamers. There is not one of the thousand or more methods of making a living in which there is not the possibility of a fortune. The following methods are sufficiently out of the beaten track to be novel to most people, while some of them are absolutely new and untried: