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Show two Irishmen, who, Judging by tkelr appearance, were toilers temporarily out of employment. As the big shovel at one lick scooped up a whole cart load of dirt and dumped It upon a gondola gon-dola car, one of the Irishmen remarked: remark-ed: "What a shame, to think of them digging up dirt in that way!" "What do ye mane?" asked his companion. "Well," said the other, "that machine is taking the bread out of the mouths of a hundred laborers who could do the work with their picks and shovels." shov-els." "Right you are, Barney," said the other fellow. Just then a man who had been loo'ng on and who had overheard the co versation remarked: "See, here, you f llows. If that digging dig-ging would give work to a hundred men with shovels and picks, why not get a thousand men and give them teaspoons tea-spoons with which to dig up the dirt?" The Irishmen, to their credit, saw the force the remark and the humor of thv situation and joined heartily in the laupb. that followed and one of them added. "I guess you're right, captain. The joop's the thing after all." Philadelphia Ledger. TBIT SAW THE POINT. An incident which struck me at the time as quite amusing occurred not long since on North Broad street. A steam shovel at work had attracted1 a large number of spectators, including |