Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1879 — Conundrums. [ARTICLE]

Conundrums.

In building conundrums the answer is the simplest part of the structure. For instance, here is a capital answer: “One is fall shopping, and the other is shop falling,” but we haven’t time to look around for a conundrum to fit it. And again: “One is Hamlet alone, and the other is ham let alone.” The conundrum necessarily contains something about the melancholy Dane and diseased pork. Here is one complete: “What is the difference between a church fair and an infant’s overstocking?” Answer: “Tho difference between ladies’ begging and a baby’s legging.”—Puck. Lord Beaconsfield’s assertion that thousands of our Western farmers were moving into Canada was due to his ignorance of North American geography. Sir John A. Macdonald told him that there was a large movement from “ the Western provinces” into Manitoba, and he thought these provinces were our Western States.