Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1919 — Bones or Pins. [ARTICLE]

Bones or Pins.

There are various kinds of proteetlon exercised by governments for the people. A new qne has developed in the state of Maine. The law forbids any one who did not himself catch U, to sell a pickerel. The fish a?e not allowed in market and even the man who caught them must have done that “legally.” It Is well-known to people, who, for fear of starving, have eaten pickerel, that their bodies are made up of 90 jr?r cent sharp bones and 10 per cent flesh. When it comes to a choice between frying the family pincushion and eating a pickerel, most people prefer the pickerel, but it is evident that the legislators of Maine do not mean to expose their constit? uents to the perils of the diet when it can be avoided. There is no law in Maine against selling pincushions. —Hartford Courant.