Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1889 — DRIVING PIGS TO CLOVER. [ARTICLE]

DRIVING PIGS TO CLOVER.

A New Craze Which Wise Men Denounce But Engage in Inordinately . A perplexity which promises to become as wide-spread a craze as the famous “fifteen puzzle” will in all probability soon reach Rensselaer. It is called “Pigs in Clover” and its great and controlling object which drives many to dis.raetion is to get those pigs ou’ of the clover and into the pen ’here all respectable pig. belong. The toy is a circular box within which are two circular “fences” including a covered “pen.” The gate of the outer fence is opposite the closed part of the inner and that cf the inner is opposite the closed part of the outer. That is, the gates of the two fences are is a line but not opposite. The entrance of the pen is plac -d in the same way, with reference to the inner fence. The gates are large enough to admit one of the “pigs” These are four marbles of different colors The pigs are to be driven to their pen by tipping the box to various angles and allowing them to roll about. After the pigs are safely inside the first fence the real difficulty begins. While rolling one p'g inside the second gate, all thre > of the others may roll k and out of gate number one, and while attending these stray perkers the fourth pig may roll to joL his brethren. The trouble in getting the pigs into the pen is of course tw.ee as great as that of getting them inside the second fence.

Even in thinking of the puzzle one in .oluntarily begins to speculate on its solution. It has all the fascination of a difficult thing which seems simple All classes in New York are working themselves into irritation over it Doctors, lawyeis, merchants and chiefs are turning their attention from graver matt»rs to engage in the all-abserving occupation of pig driving. It is one of those puzzles that one will call a “fool thing” and +hen spend hours in solving. By the way would it not he an interesting economical problem to some ambitious social student to calculate the effect of one of these “fool” puzzles upon the productive capacity of a community which spends an almost incalculable am’t of time in its solution?

A youth, undergoing examin atian a few days since for admission to one of the Government departments, found himself confronted with the question, “What is the distance from the ear tn to the aun ?’ Not having the exact number of miles witnhim, he wrote in reply: “I » m unable to state accurately, but don’t believe the sun is near enough to interfere with a proper performance of my du iea if I get this clerkship.”

Fred Grant’s Appointment We can not call to mind anything (Joxonel Grant ever did for himself, for the Republican party, or the country that is worth naention--ng to his renown »r credit. His life was almost bagun as a ward of the Government, and he is still with us with an undiminished appetite for the good things es life. * * [Lafayette Journal.

Judge Claypool’s Resignation. —Judge Claypool is doubtless correct in the conclusion that it was his duty as a democrat to resign the office. If there was the slightest reason to believe that the trials would be permitted by Judge Woods to be fairly condw ted it would have been Judge Claypool’s pl air duty to have continued to hold the office until his successor was appointed. But as the whole business was to terminate in a farce he did not propose to be the victim of it. Let the republicans

have the full responsibility of the whole disgraceful business for they have richly earned whatever credit or infamy may attach to the subsequent proceedings in these bribery cases. #*#### With Miller as att irnyy-general of the United States and 'edge Woods on the federal bene, of Indiana, of course there will be no furthei steps to reach Dudley or to Dunish any of those actually indicted, and Judge Claypool had no stomach for playing a serious role in what he sees in advance is only intended to be a farce. Judge Claypool is no low comedian. — Evansville Courier.

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