The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1872-11-08

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| This proposal pleased the company ;
and hoping to divert themselves with
the Jews wit or stupidity, each one
asked ut random whatever Glanced to
enter his head.
Thus, tor example, the first asked I.
"How many soft boiled eggs could the
giant Goliath eat upon an empty
stOmach?"
! All said it was impossible to answer
that question !; and each paid him
twelve krentzers.
But the jew said: Zone; for he
who has eaten one egg cannot eat a
second upon an empty stomach; p
and the Others paid him twelve krent-
zerS.
The second thought: "Wait, Jew.
1 will try You out Of the New Testa-
ment, and think | shall win my
piece. Why did the Apostle Paul
write the Second Epistle to the Cor
inthians 2"
The Jew said. Because he was
not in Corinth; otherwise, he would
have spoken to them.n
So he Won another twelve kreutzer
piece.
When the third saw that the Jew
was 50 well yersed In the Bible, he
tried him In Il different way: .NEho
prolonged his work to as great a length
as possible, and completes it in time:?"
1.-The ropemaker, if he be industri-
ons, /" said the Jew.
In the meanwhile they drew near to
village, and one said to the other /:
'yThat Is Bamlach.
Then the fourth asked: ''In what
month do the people Of Bamlach eat
the least?o
The Jew said: ''In February for 1t
has only twenty-cight days"
The fifth said There are two nat
ural brothers, and still only one OF
them is my uncle"
The Jew said 1.-The uncle is your
fathers brother, and your father Is not
your uncle. y
A fish leaped ont Of the water, and
the sixth asked, "What fish have their
eyes nearest to-gether?"
The jew said, 1.-The smallest"
The seventh asked, "How cana man
ride from Basic to Berne, in the shade,
summer time, when the sun shines2n
The jew said, when he comes to a
place where there is no shade, he must
dismount and 90 on foot.''
The eighth asked, ''When q man
rides in the winter time from Berne t.
Basle, and has forgotten his gloves,
how must he manage so that his hands
shall not freeze"
The jew said, ''He must make fists
out of them"
The ninth was the last. This one
asked, "How can five persons divide
five eggs so that each man shall re-
caive one, and still one remain in the
| dish ~
The Jew said, 1.-The last must take
the dish with the egg, and he can let
| it lie there as long as lie pleases."
| But now it came to his turn, and he
determined to make a good sweep.
After many preliminary compliments
he asked, with mischievious friend
illness, How can man fry two trout
in three pans, SO that trout may lie
in each PAM"
No one could answer this, and one
after the other gave him twelve
kreutzer piece.
But when the ninth desired that he
should solve the riddle, lie rocked to
and fro. shrugged his shoulders, and
rolled his eyes. 81 am poor Jew,"
he said atlast.
The rest cried, "What has that to do
with it! Give lis the answer"
"You must not take it amiss, for |
am a poor Jew 2" At last after much
persuasion, and many promises that
they would do him no harm-he
thrust his hand into his pocket, took
out one of the twelve kreutzer pieces
that he had won. laid itupon the table,
and said, II do not know the answer
any more than you do. Here are my
twelve kreutzers.
When the others heard the words,
they opened their eyes and said this
was scarcely according to agreement.
But as they could hot control their
laughter, and were wealthy and good
natllred men, and as the jew had help
ed them to while away the time from
st. Veit to Schalampi, they let it pass,
and the Jew took with him from the
vessel--let a good arithmetician reck-
on up for me how much the Jew car
ried home with him. He had twelve
kreutzer piece and brass button when
he came on board. He won nine
twelve kreutzer pieces by his answers,
nine with his own riddle, one he paid
back, and eighteen kreutzer he gave
the captain.
A telegram dated Springfield, Illi-
nois, October 23d, says:
The drouth il again fearful In this
section Of the State. II is reported
that in many portions OF this county
the stock is suffering greatly for water.
Wells and cisterns have been exhaust
| al o,,d far,nar. fnr miles arnnnd rnlV