CHAPTER LVI.

STOCK EXCHANGE CELEBRITIES. HOW WALL STREET BANKERS’ NERVES ARE TRIED.—FINE HUMOR, JOCULAR DISPOSITIONS, AND SCHOLARLY TASTE OF OPERATORS.—GEORGE GOULD AS A FUTURE FINANCIAL POWER.—AMERICAN NOBILITY COMPARED WITH EUROPEAN ARISTOCRACY.—HOW THE IRISH CAN ASSIST TO PURGE GREAT BRITAIN OF HER BILIOUS INCUBUS OF NOBILITY.—THE NATURAL NOBILITY OF OUR OWN COUNTRY, AND THEIR DESTINY. Among the well-known members of the Stock Exchange not elsewhere mentioned are James D. Smith, who is now in his second t…