Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1913 — GOOD JOKES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GOOD JOKES

BLUE BKY PROMOTERS. Blue sky promoters are men so optL mistic where other people’s money la concerned that they will promote not merely barren %old and silver mines, but the blue sky Itself. Postmaster General Hitchcock was talking about a blue sky promoter who had been convicted of fraud. “This man’s mine,” he said, “reminded me in Its scarcity of gold of the railway sandwich. “ ‘There ain’t no. ham in this here sahdwlch,’ a man growled, seated on a high stool before the marble bar of an old-fashioned railway restaurant. “ ‘Oh, you ain’t come to the ham yet,’ the attendant answered easily. "The man ate on a while longer. Then he growled again: ' __ “ ‘There ain’t no ham yet.’ “‘Oh,’ said the attendant, ‘you’ve bit over it now.’ ” —New York Tribune.