Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1903 — He Can’t See the Classes. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

He Can’t See the Classes.

Mr. Rhino—Glasses may be all right for some people, but they don’t seem to do me a bit of good. —E. Warde Blaisdell in St. Nicholas. How Does He Do It? A farmer moving has a fox, a goose and a basket of corn. He comes to a river, and the boat will only carry the fanner and one of his charges. Now, if he leaves the fox and the goose alone the fox will eat the goose, and if he leaves the goose and the corn alone the goose will eat the corn. How can he safely take them all over the river ? A Water Lamp. A little lamp that is perfectly safe may be made by filling a glass about three-fourths full of water and sticking an inch wire nail into a piece of candle about one inch and

a half long, placing the candle nail end first into the water and lighting it. The candle will float about oneeighth of an inch above “sea level” and will burn to the end of the wick, when the water will put it out.

IT FLOATS AND BURNS.