Barnum, the great was showman,
once, on a certain gala day in New York, much distressed by the fact that his exhibition wonld not hold all his would-be patrons, and money was being turned from the door every minute, [n this extremity he instructed his painter to prepare hastily a large green placard bearing the inscription in huge letters “To the Egress !! !” The board was sluck up in one of the galleries, near tlie door, and the first Fishman who caught sight- of it turned off at a tangent with a “ Begorra, boys, here’s
a baste we’ve none of us seen,” and, followed by a goodly crowd, made the best of his way to the —outside. Am legend on the board was a truthi'tl et c - ; and from tbo other entrai.ee M e >'< :i.?hted crowd streamed in with
then’ money in their hands, to fill the places so ingeniously emptied by the wily Phineas.
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Mr John E. Getl (at an amateur musicule) : “ What’s lie singing P” Mias Van Clef: “‘Let me Like a Soldier Die.’ ” Mr Gelt: “IE I had my gun with mo, he should be gratified.”
One Box of Clarke’s B 41 Pills is warar.ted to cure all discharges from the Urinary Organs in either sex (acquired or const; fulionai), Gravel, and Pains in the Bad Guaranteed free from mercury. Sold i; boxes, 4s 6d each, by all Chemists aud Patent Medicine Vendors. Sole Proprietors: Thi Lincoln and Midland Counties Drug Company, Lincoln, England. Wholesale of all the Wholesale Houses
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Western Star, Issue 1577, 8 July 1891, Page 4
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