Next week the Museum will be closed for renovation and repairs, and the week after it will reopen under the popular P.T.B., once more.
I will now give the true statement of facts and particulars of his connection with the Jerome Manufacturing Company--which, however, was not his first experience in clock-making.

Some time before this, he was interested in a Company located in the town of Litchfield, Connecticut, and, I believe, owned about ten thousand dollars worth of stock.

They made a very poor article which was called a marine clock, if I am rightly informed.

That Company failed, and Barnum took the stock as security for endorsing and furnishing them with cash.

I do not suppose the whole of the effects were worth transporting to Bridgeport, although estimated by him at a large amount.