Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-02-11
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MORE PUzzLEs. The 'sjug question: hav
ing been disposed of by the glers, we will give
az apparently intricate yet simple problem for the
exercise of arithmetical students How much is a
third and a-haf third of ten?
A correspondents also sends us the following
question for the scientific:
| eff an irresistible body come in contact with ar
immoyable body, what will be the result?
! -.-- INERTIA"
FAR-FETCHED ARGUMENT following,
offered in debate in certain lyceum in this city,
is the soundest argument in opposition to the pro-
hibitory liquor law we have ever heard: "Go back
to the times when Noah built the a rk and ne
foated the wide and desolate waters till he
landed on the top of Mount Ararat and the first
thing he did, Sir after he landed he 5uM himself a
vineyard, and he got drunk, and they didn't have
any prohibitory liquor law then! Mr.. President,
no more do Wa need one now" '..
MORE JUG GLERY.-Nr. sEaitor.-In your
jug puzzle think you said there was but one way
that four gallons could be measured without using
other vessels. Now, in one minute after reading it
over, solved it (as supposed in the only way it
could be done) in entirely different way from
that by young America" If you had filled your
S-gallon jug with lager or ''bust-head" instead of
water, have no doubt but that still more wars
could be found to measure it-but in turning it
about often it might turn the brains of more of
your readers, a-Aa-"Demijohn' l first fill the 3
gallon jug out of the Sgaon jug, then the 3-gallon
Jug out of the 5gallon Jug; then turned the con-
tents of the 3-gaon jug into the s-gallon Jug; then
the remaining gallons out of the 5gallon jug into
Al. IL A..
second time and out of that fill up the remaining
gallon in the 3-gallon jug, there will then be just
gallons in the 5-galon jug. : DRY MEASURE.
Our Prosecuting ATTORNEY. - Henry
O'Connor, Esq District Prosecuting Attorney,
yesterday morning made his speech in the case of
Thiessen killing Arp. This case has been trial
some days, and been attended with deep excitement
among our German population. There have been
crowds in attendance from the opening of the case.
Yesterday morning, on the occasion of Mr.. O'Con-
nor's speech, the Court room was crowded to ex-
cess, yet hundreds went away unable to gain ad-
mittance. Mr.. OConnOr spoke for over two hours, |
and made one Of the most able arguments ever
delivered In this Court House. An old legal gen.
teman from abroad who was present, paid it high
compliment when he said he never heard it exceeded
by any speech before jury. Mr.. O'Connor is one /
OF the most able jurists in the State, and he is
making an efficient officer. Judge Miller submitted
this case to the Jury in an able charge.-Daoenport
Gazette.
The people of this district have done themselves
credit by their election of Judge and Prosecuting
Attorney. From the above extract We our
representative on that ticket eloquent and able
fellow citizen, Henry O'Connor, Esq, is winning
fresh laurels in his field of action His office
promises to be avery arduous and laborious one.
We think that the State has, in the District Ator-
ney, the right man in the right place. With Judge
Dillon on the bench, and Henry O'Connor as Pros
ecuting Attorney, the offices Of the 18th Judicial
District are the most ably filed in the State. y