A SHORT ROAD TO WEALTH.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 153, 7 May 1879, Page 2

A SHORT ROAD TO WEALTH.

" Does anybody about this office want to become a millionaro, a bloated bondholder, as it were, in about six months 1" said a man with a red nose, putting his head inside the office door this morning; " if they do, I will let them in on the biggest and surest speculation of the age; dead open and shut—give you the whole business for six bits—satisfaction guaranteed or the money returned." Now, every member of the staff of this chaste family journal, happens, by a strange coincidence, to be independently rich, but out of mere curiosity they chipped in and made up the required amount, which the near relative of Colonel Sellers carefully buttoned into his hip pocket, "You see, he went on to explain, "last Tuesday Congress passed a law to put an end to Chinese immigration." '.'Yes, prohibiting the carrying of more than 15 Mongolians by any one vessel—well." "Well, you see," and the man with the pink prow abstractedly laid his hand on the door knob, "My scheme is to organise a San Francisco and Hong Kong Steam-tug Company, Each tug to tow say 200 small boats, containing 15 Chinese and a cook apiece. You see that would just get round the law, and at the same—" but he dashed outside and escaped before the broadside of inkstands and scissors arrived.—San Francisco News Letter,