Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-29
v:a,1caster fnteIIigerlrer.
WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 90. 1881.
BUBBLES OF 1926.

BUBBLES OF 1926.
[Mr. Wm Duane, OF Philadelphia, sends us
the following verses, published In Loh"oh
newspaper in the year 1875. Railways are no
longer consider visionary and the HungerIord
market has existed for many years.-EDs IN
TELLIGExcKRl
Run, neighbours run, you're just in time to
=, ali the famous bubbles that amuse John
Bull,
Run take a peep on Change for anxious
crowds beset us there,
Each trying which can make himself the
greatest gull.
No sooner are they puffd than an universal
wish there IL
For shares In mines, insurances. In ioreigh
loans and fisheries:
No matter where the project lies, so violent
the mania,.
In Africa, New Providence, Peru or Penn
sylvania!
Run, neighbours, run, you're just In time to get
share
In ALI the famous bubbles that amuse John
Few folks for news very anxious at this crisis
For marriages. and deaths. and births, no
thirst exists
All take the papers in, to find out what the
prices arc
OF share. in this or that. upon the brokers'
lists
The Doctor leaves his patient-thc pedagoSuc
his Lexicon,
For mines in Real Monte or those OF Angie
Mexican:
Fen Chill bonds don't cool the rage, nor those
still more romantic. Sir,
For new canals to join the Seas Pacific ana
Atlantic, Sir.
Run. neighbours, run. &c.
At home we have new projects 100, lor uraih'
ing surplus capital,
And honest Master Johnny OF his cash 10
chOuse;
Tho ro.her day Judge Abbott gave 4 rather
sharpish slap ut all,
And EIdon launched his thunder from the
upper House.
Investment banks to lend a lift to people VINO
are un,lone-
pro,osals for Assurance-therc's no end OF
that in London:
And one amongst the number. who In rariia
memt now press their bills
For lcndin. cash Mt eight per cent. on coats
and inexpressibles.
Run, neighbours, run, SC.
No more with her bright pals the milkman':
rosy daughter works,
A company must serve yOa now with mlIR
and cream;
Perhaps they've some cOnneXion with the u"
vcr,isins water-works,
That promise to supply you from :he iimpi'
stream.
Another body corporate would fain some
cIi wet
By selling fish at IIungerfOrd and knocking
up old Billingsgate
Another takes your linen when it's dirty tt
the suds, Sir,
And brings it home i'm carriages with fonr alc'
bits of blood sir.
Run, neighbours run. &c.
When Greenwich coaches go by steam oI
roads of iron railing, Sir,
How plc;sant it will be to see a dozen in
line;
And ships of heavy burden over hills and val
lcys sailing, Sir,
Snail cross from BristOl's channel to tn
Tweed or Tyne.
And Dame Speculation, IT she ever fully hatl
her ends,
Will give us docks ut Bermondsey, st. $:
viour's and St. Catharinc's,
While side-lOng bridges over mui shall fill tn
folks with wonder, Sir,
And lamplight tunnels, all day long, convc
the cockncys under, Sir,
Run, neighbours, run, &c.
A tunnel underneath the sea, from Calai
straight to Dover, Sir,
That qualmish folk may cross by land from
shore to shore,
With sluic.s made to drown the French, /
e'er they should come over, Sir,
l<,rr OF
thought q mOastrOus bore.
Amongst the many scheming folks, take i
he's no ninny, Sir,
WHO bargains with the Ashantees TO fish th'
coast of q Guine,, Sir,
For secretly tits known that another brillian
view he has
OF lighting up the famous town OF Timbucto
with oil gas.
Run, neighbours, run. SC.