Judge — January 26, 1895 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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Futter Notutn'— ‘Gosh! I'm cold— but [ have an idea, — THE POLICE INVESTIGA- TION. Counsel (to police-captain on the and)—" Now, will you please tell the committee where you got the one hundred thousand dollars with which you bought that Fifth-avenue Captain —* Certaiily, In the fall of 1891 I got a straight up that the following summer would be the hottest in forty years; so | went up to Rock- land county and bought an ice-pond for wo bundred dollats. When I reckoned up accounts at the end of the summer of 1892 I found that 1 was just one hundred and two thousa dollars ahexd on the transaction.” Counsel —"And where did you get the two hundred and_ fifty thousand dollars which you paid for your stock farm?” “Oh, I got that easy AN INGENIOUS IDEA, —I'll lie down before this saloon an’ have a fit." “The bes’ drink I's had fer twenty years. ‘Valk about yer Edison — he ain't in it.” * Jake, get some hot whisky, quick !” make a fortune for anybody for one dollar, I sent in my dollar and received a small package of green seed, with directions about sowing it. 1 sowed it in my yard one evening, and when I woke up next morning I found a tree covered with greenbacks where the leaves ought to be. That.crop yielded me just six hundred and fifty thousand dollars. 1 paid five hundred thousand dollars of it for the houses and laid out the remaining one hundred: and fifty thousand on more seed. So, if 1 should happen to buy a few railroads or a couple of steamship ‘lines 1 hope this committee won't consider it néces- sary to go into my private affairs again. HE DID. Woopman — "I'm sorry, sur, but I'm ‘fraid [Il have to ask you to move away from here, as my boss has sent me to cut down th R. Case —** Oh, go ahead, my Il get out of the way betore she T've seen trees cut before.” mai falls, enough. One night I went toa variety theatre and saw a magician catch a lot of silver dollars in the air. After the performance [ made friends with him and finally induced him to let me into the secret catching two hundred and fifty thou- sand silver dollars, but | managed to do it in three months by working day and night.” 2 Counsel — Petbaps you obtained in the same way the half-million dol- lars which’ you paid for the block of apartment-houses in the annexed dis- trict 2” Captain —"No. Catching silver dollars was too slow, so T answered the advertisement of a man who offered to It was rather slow work SWALLOWING THE PILL. comicbooks.com