The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-12-07
Discovery Of Ice Cream.
Wide Awake.

wore his gold crown even AT night,
though it made the worst kind of
night-cap. The wise men of Lactia
said the crown must never come OIL,
and IL was these wise men and the
prince who formed n conspiracy against
the king, ending in the discovery of ice
cream. But the king lived well, grow
ing fat and jolly, until his son, tho
prince, became unruly. Then the king
grew 50 thin that he had TO use a piece
of paper doubled up inside of his crown
to prevent it from slipping down over
his nose.
The wise men said; Gwen make a
plan to reform this prince" but during
the next three years they did nothing
but talk, talk, talk One day the very
royal candle-snuffer brought them this
note;
Your plan or your headsl
KING JOHN
They sent back word to the king to
please make the prince chief high di-
rectorof the weather. The change that
followed was marvellous, Tho prince
suited everyone. He made il clear and
sunny for picnic party, windy in the
right direction for the sailors, just right
for the farmers, cold for the fur-dealers,
and hot for the bathing resort men.
The people of Lactia went almost wild
with Joy, and the king laughed and
grew fat again. The wise men claimed
all the merit but they soon regretted
doing so. Thousands of Lactians came
to thank them in their houses all day,
while nightly professions marched and
hurrahed every wink of sleep from
their pillows. The wise men prayed
the king to send the people home, and
when he refused fifty of the wisest ran
away to sea, but the others formed
conspiracy.
The kings strawberries grew between
the palace and the royal milk-house,
and it was double high treason for
anyone but the kingto pick them. One
morning, before the weather Office was
open, the wise men pursuaded the
prince to 60 with them and eat berries
with sugar and cream in the royal
milk-house. While sugaring the ber-
ries they l. ard the king come into the
garden.
Pm afraid those robbins have been
eating my berries again." they present
ly heard him remark,
The prince paused, pale with fright.
The wise men rushed up and down,
shaking with terror.
o-the-cream with -them! "
chartered the prince, and into a can Of
cream the berries were dropped, sugar
and all, the lid clapped on the can, and
the prince on top of that. Six OF the
strongest of the wise men placed their
backs to the royal 'milk-house door, and
the others soon appeared to be sound
asleep in the corners.
The king strolled in the garden long
after the princes Office hour. 1t APP
pears that the prince had used only the
good weather, and had accumulat-
ed such store of i'll winds, cold snaps,
and great storms as was never known
before. The chief high director not
appearing, the commotion that began
made all the old people hunt for their
almanacs in hurry The wind blew
over chimneys and bent high steeples
out of shape. And now it showed and
hailed and rained and made the people
wish there hadn't been any chief high
director! The wind twitched the kings
crown over the high fence and, in two
seconds, him after it; and it rolled
across the fields ten miles before he
caught it. The roof of the royal milk
house flew over the palace, and the
badly frightened prince and wise men
| tumbled out. The wind tossed the cans
into the road, and sent them spinning
away through the storm like silver
wheels. The wise men were lost, and
were supposed to have blown to de-
serted island.
The king returned with his crown
| lust as an honest farmer drove up to
the palace in his sleigh with a cream can
he had fond in snow drift. The king
carelesslv took off the lid, and then
staggered back screaming and trem-
bling-the can was filled with some
pink-colored thick stuff, such as never
before had been seen.
''Seize him." said the king, "he
wants to poison metz and the whole
court rushed out to protect the king.
'Make him eat of it or off goes his
head!' said the king.
They expected to see the farmer drop
dead; but no! he spooned out the stuff
as fast as possible. At last the prince
ventured to taste, and the farmer
couldn't get the spoon back. As7soon
as the King tasted, he created the
farmer duke on the spot, ordered q
hundred guns to be fired, and promoted
the prince to be king, as he himself
wished to open an ice cream saloon at
one end of the palace. The ex-king
died very wealthy. While he lived he
hired all the poor people of Lactia to
spread fine ice upon the palace hill,
and roll his cans of cream down to
freeze, 1t was not until after his
death that it was allowed that ice cream
could be made in any other way.