Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1883 — A Bug’s Idea. [ARTICLE]

A Bug’s Idea.

After describing the repeated failures of a tumble-bug to get his ball out of a rut, the Indianapolis News adds: “Finally he plowed out a space, like a sort of a railroad cut, with a smaller slope than the buggy track, and pushed his ball triumphantly out through it. Was that reason? It was exactly the course an engineer would take. It was exactly the course taken to raise the great winged bulls of Nineveh. Has a tumble-bug got a mind?* > You can hear the whistle of a looomoiive 3,300 yards, the noise of a train 2,800 yards, the report of a musket and the bark of a dog 1,800 yards, the roll of a drum 1,600 yards, the croak of a frog 900 yards, and a cricket’s chirp 8(X) yards. The man who stumbles twice on the same stone is a fool,