New-York tribune., 1901-06-08
THE NEW INDUSTRY.

I'll shout to my believers
That | am surely 1t
But II they're slow with money
l cannot work bit.
It's nice to be a prophet
To say you have the power
Increases every hour.
I'll a srnirk a $ pleasant
And Iet my bushy whiskers
Play goo goo with the wind.
And pierce the future year.
And peer down the vista,
Then I and 'Iijah Dowie
When all is done and said
VIII show YOU how prophets
Have gone and prohted
There is a gambling house in Philadelphia which
employs automatic church organ instead OF
lookout man The scheme" says The Record.
has worked beautifully and neither the neigh
bors nor the fly cops Of the district onto the
game. When the organ is started you might think
in passing the house that a prayer meeting or re-
vivaI service in progress behind the closed
blinds. for it plays nothing but hymns. All the
evening it switches from Nearer. My God. 70
Thee TO Rock of Ages. and then 10 From Green
lands Icy Mountains And all the time the chips
rattling and the kitty is growing fat. Think
OF raiding Joint where an organ was playing
Nearer. My God. 10 Thee"
Ascum-what YOU down upon the English
Cassldy-why shouIdnt. 1? Look at the stories
Ascum-Yes. but they tell stories about the Irish,
too. which YOU say are lies.
CassiGy-Aye, but all the lies they tell about the
English are true.-Philadelphia Press
"A certain lady and her family" says Sir
Mountstuart Grant-Dun in his Diary hired
place in Scotland which was haunted by the ghost
OF woman who was to be seen constantly at
night wandering through the rooms and passages
When the family arrived the lady much struck
with the place, and said. 4 must have been here
before. for l know this place well-only there
ought 20 be two rooms here. and there is only one
The agent replied that within few weeks the
owner had caused partition 10 be taken down
and made the two rooms into one. sim the lady
puzzled az her knowledge Of the place till she
remembered that IL house she used 10 go to
In her dreams. Well some time passed and the
agent up AT the house again. when the lady
complained that one part OF the CoqtraCt had not
been fulfilled. They had hired a house and ghost
for the summer. and no ghost had she seen. The
agent replied 'Oc course. not because you are the
ghost: we recognized you the moment we saw
YOU"
Minnie-So you are really going TO marry Fred?
ioTeds a ns tell you yo" were the only woman he ever
Esther-No ne told me that was the only
woman he never told that to-tBoston Transcript
The Coreans are lnveterate smokers of green to-
bacco. which they IN pipes with tiny bowls
and stems two or three feet long They stick their
pipes down the back OF the neck when not using
them. There Is deal of drinking too though
they have many proverbs against it-''IIeaven and
earth are too small for a drunken man" White
whiskey makes red face There is no bottom
20 the appetite for drink"
Yes. said the Rev. Mr. Goodman II am sorry
to say that there is a vast difference between nv
brother and myself Two years ago we visited the
holy Land and the River Jordan. Naturally. when
/ came upon 10 was lost in such a profound and
reverenttal reverie that I paid attention 10
George. and when turned around he was gone"
In such sacred place he decided 10 commune
alone probably suggested Mrs. Frontpeugh
We'll. no." answered the minister. II do not
think such thought entered his head He
had hunted up a nice shady spot about nifty yards
down and was fishing. "-Undianapolis sun
Italy has her Knights of Labor. The order
has just been instituted by the King gold cross
is bestowed on those who have helped on the prog
ress of the working classes and who have invented
improvements 10 assist skilled labor. The cross
bears the inscription: To the Worth OF Labor"
Harrs-i saw Bulger just now. He says he was
so glad that he Of debt last
farren-Out OF debit Why. he owes SIS
itarris-He probably meant that he out of
debts that he had got TO pay.-(Boston Transcript