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Show A Different Meaning. One of the principal owners of a promising gold mine was expatiating on its merits to a capitalist and prospective pros-pective Investor. He described tha vein in .which the miners were working, work-ing, showed his specimens of the ore, and .backed up his statements with the written opinions of experts. "Well," admitted the capitalist, "il looks as if it might be a good investment. in-vestment. As my old Uncle Hiram would say, it has its 'p'ints.' " 1 "Pints!" exclaimed the owner, carried car-ried away perhaps by his over-anxiety; "why sir, we're in quartz right now ! " |