Ogden Daily Standard | 1909-01-27 | Page 8 | Could Stand Anything

Could Stand Anything. ' The manager of one of tho Cleveland Cleve-land burlesque houses tells this ono on himself. A few days ago he had the dire misfortune to cut a finger or was it a thumb? Anyway, the finger fin-ger or thumb got pretty sore and blood poisoning or something set in. He had to go to a doctor about It. "I'll have to perform a slight opera tlon." the doctor told him. "May be it won't be necessary to put you to sleep, though. How about you? Can you stand much pain?" "Can I stand much pain?" repeated the theatrical man. "Well. I should say I could! Pain's ray long suit. I can stand anything. Why. doctor, I'm the manager of a burlesque theater and see 12 shows a week." Suez Canal Shipping. Consul General Robert J. Wyneo makes the report that the returns of shipping and tonnagu of the Suez canal for 1907 show that the net tonnage ton-nage exhibits an all-round increase, the figures for the last year showing an Increase ot 1,282.930 tons as compared com-pared with that ot 1306 and an increase in-crease of 1.594.329 over 1905. Receipts during 1907 showed an increase ot $1,557,000 as compared with 1906.