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Show To Beat the Maohiae. "Gimme a nickel's worth of buckshot," said a St Paul gamin wearing somewhat disordered raiment. His head just topped top-ped the counter in a bazar devoted to sporting goods. "I suppose he will load tbem into a rusty pistol and accidentally shoot some one of his intimate friends," suggested a bystander. "Oh, no," replied tbe proprietor of tbe gun store, "he has no firearms. He is going in to beat the nickel-in-the-slot scheme, and I suppose I am particeps criminis." "How?" "Why, he will put them on the street car track, the car will convert them into the exact size of nickels and pennies, and, of course, you can anticipate the financial panic liable to ensue in St. Paul shortly, with a gum machine at almost every corner." St. Paul Pioneer Press. |