Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1880 — Wrecked by the Fifteen Puzzle. [ARTICLE]

Wrecked by the Fifteen Puzzle.

They were two young men Iron the country, and they drove up to the Postoffice corner this morning, attracted -by a large crowd which had collected to hear a street-comer render of the Gem Puzzle expl&in to the gaping spectators how the puzzle could be done “just as o-a-s-y as falling off a log.” They concluded to purchase one, and did so, but were so impatient to try and work out the confounded thing that they commenced moving the blocks as they drove down K street. Long and patiently they wrestled with it, and had got the numbers all in place with the exception of the 18, 14 and 16. Suddenly the man who was driving imagined he had discovered a move to bring everything out all right, and in his excitement and eagerness to show his companion how to make the move dropped the reins. The team started. The man who held the blocks was thrown ont into the mud. his blocks flew in all directions, and the horses were only checked bv running into a buggy, which latter vdlicle waa damaged to the extent of about thirty dollars worth, a bill the country youths agreed to settle before the owner of the buggy allowed them to depart.— Oor. Sacramento {Cal.) Bet.