The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1892-08-13
VERY FUNNY.
A joke That Did Not Yield the AntIci-
pated Amusement.

pated Amusement.
Practical jokes are never quite so
thoroughly satisfactory as when they
react upon the perpetrator. A gentle
man who is noted for his tondress for
pleasantly attempted the other day to
have little amusement at the expense
of his wife. He was passing along
the street, when toy in window at
tracted his attention. The more he ex-
amined it the more he became con-
vinced that it possessed great posi-
bilities in the way of mystifying his
friends and thus entertaining himself.
He purchased one and started home in
great glee.
The toy was contrivauce with two
rollers and n crank like clothes
wrlngcr. 1t was very appropriately
called a magic money-maker, for if a
piece of paper were put between the
rollers and the crank turned, there
would come out on the other side new
crisp blll--one dollar, five dollars, ten
dollars, in short a bill of any denomi-
nation within the limit of the opera.
tors financial condition.
The secret was simple enough. Both
rollers were hollow, and into one sew
eral bills were carefully rolled The
turning of the crank rolled the piece of
paper into one cylinder, and at Che
same time one of the enclosed bills was
rolled out of the other. The secret as
supposed to be known only to the opar-
ator. ...
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To insert a plain piece of white or
brown paper between the rollers and to
take out of the other side a tcn-dollar
bill was, of course, a mysterious and in
teresting performance, and the gentle
man promised himself considerable
amusement.
He secured several new tcn-dollar
bills, and after practicing the trick once
or twice went home.
What have you got there?' asked
his wife.
Ssh" he exclaimed, raising his hand
warningly, Don't say u word; I'll tell
you all about it after while It's a
new invention I've got hold of, and our
fortune is made.''
He put the little machine carefully on
the table and asked her to cut him a
piece of paper of the size of a dollar
bill, which she did.
Now" he said, 81 suppose you would
like nice crisp ten-dollar bill, wouldn't
you?'
"Why," she replied. touched by such
spontaneous and unusual generosity,
81 dare say l could find plenty of uses
for new ten-dollar bill, or even an old
one.''
VERY well, my dear, you shall have
one.' And starting between the roll
ers the piece of paper she had cut him
he turned the crank, and out from the
other side rolled a beautiful crisp green
back, which he passed to her, saying:
II think you will concede, my dear.
that this is the quickest way of making
money You ever saw"
She stood for moment speechless
with astonishment. Then she ex.
claim: ''Why, what in the world are
you doing? Don't you know you'll be
arrested for countcrfeiting? Stop it,
and throw that thing right away"
Il dare say" continued her husband,
outwardiy calm, but inwardly shaken
with laughter, "you could use another
ten. You can have it just as well as
not. 1t only takes minute" An cut
ting another piece from the newspaper
he rolled it in, and rolled out second
bill.
II tell you, George" exclaimed the
now thoroughly excited woman, ''you
shall not do this. Scmebodyll certainly
find it out, and you'll be arrested. I'll
destroy these counterfeits just as fast
as you make them!" And before her
humorous husband knew what she was
dong, she caught up the two bills and
tore them into twenty pieces.
The unfortunate joker spent his leis.
ure time for the next week in pastinp
the fragments together Youths Com
paniOn