Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1869-10-22
Chicago. Sept. %, lace.


adoyIcal construction. when your
ohlige man to do thing which he
does net want to do, you may dis
ige him at the same time. l. has
been remarked that there is a very
great difference between a church
where the gospel is dispensed, and
one where it is dispensed with. We
Lave often heard the story of how
the captain OF a canal boat cried
" Look out" to lis passengers when
they were going under bridge, and
how d Frenchman looked out accord
ingly and received a bump on his
head ; but i; has never been decided
Ina, the FIenchman took any ilcor-
rect or unusual si4ntication from the
words. /, has never been decided
whether house burns up~or down.
The question whether a man wls'>
falls nom boat and is rescued from
drowning is pulled ont or pulled in
depends manly whether you are
speaking primarily of the water or
of the boat. Some one has nolice,l
dat people say they shell peas when
they un>iell item; that they husk
corn when they unhusk it; that they
SKIN buffalo when tiey unskin ii;
that they scale ti.hes when they un-
scale them, and tl.eir gardens want
wcedin. wien they are weedl enough
already.
These paradoxes in words are tho;
foundation OF the puzzles III lonIcf
winch are 80 common. For instance,
the uile syllo-iSm to the eff CT laat
because ~ cat has two tails, and be-
cause Il cat has one tail more than
no Cat, therefore IA Cat has three tails,
The Trouble alise> IN the paiadoXicai
use of the phrase "no cat" While
il is quite true III one sense that no
eat has tw tails. it is not :rup III he
sense III which II is employed in the
SlIl"gi>ni, because Il "Eu cal being
Il nnneniiv, has no tail. Similar it is
argued that Oxford must, nom AL
an,lq ,ilv, have | cen either some
where oy nowhere. Where was it
at the time ct Tarqni".uS Pri,ct,> .
1t was nowhere, then il surely must
have bee, somewhere Where vas
IT? Aristotle and Philelps, and n
don't kHow how many others, ara
sand to have bother red themselves
with Il pr"pu>i ion sonnet iag like
mis- II vo,, say 70 vours,If :. Ii. "A
and IN "a, mo ~n trli ,hr t,,i,h rhnr]
!; !. an. .ey;,en, tl,at nor, he. l,rt Il |
Won .ty .Inon anal ynu tcII lie in
satino !, ,hrr Won Also tell the truth
u, sa(inn il Tn ,i,lcr ease ,ou lie
,p1 rrfi ,l.n trutb >, ih,. same time
b.,r, b.lrd ,o,npl,oly ,..La tIe
f,I,,..a.- ,,.,...;.is. %.oansa. MI
.v.,,,. 4. ti., :, at.,n - ,,...rs q i
r,a,i.i,.5 -;.l : >aste al II, j.
.ar..,, si5.-. .o. al,i ~ .la Yb.v live
taua.boi ayt. vaars ana tb,. rir} j. ia |
wears oll THEN ;he man i ID wears
nll. az ouly f5ur times Ys Cd as TIC
.sirl. They live tosetller fye ycarJI
more and She is Is. The maa thell|
!, is, or oMy three times as osdI|
The, lira ta.re,har anvil sha Is so an,I|
he Jaa4 CD lie i, ,hcn oniy twic,
a< nld. Now. how long will lhtyJ
have to live 10 make the eill IS OH
as the 1nu
Albion N. In this case. the g.rI Il II
ca,c!,ino Ne man very fast. tie rp;,
spninas is similar to that by which IA
was lone apo argued that = mau ne,
or could ca ch a tortoise hich Aad i
mile the start. ,ybil. he msn,uns !.
m,l. the tortoise Goes onc.teuth Of "A
MIL. while the man ,uns one-EunsI
d,adth -, y mile thp tortoise ooo
one huu<,,d h OF 4 mile. " bile IN
man rams onr.,huus3ud1h of u,;,n
the tortoise pucs one ,cn-thousandt
~ ! o;in .Y,l ,n N +, any cv,oy.
Of winch decimal notation IS cannb
Tho tortoise always be;na som
! int;nite>imal fraction of spaca she a
# Tho man.
/ Viii ,,,vn onIv one more ;}lns,roa
lion ot Ills chareetpr Roe wisheX
to s,p.lv l,w with nor and offers /,
,,y ,be a,,S,,,,,rv f.. when l.. .h.kI
have won hi, first sui, a, law. ri
Ills Doe AGREES. aml Roe beromes \
s,,,l..nt N,a ,,.ts ,;r.s ~ u.o;t;n.
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