St. Paul daily globe., 1889-03-24
PIGS AND THE PEN.

ing which admits the four pigs Omar
bles) into or out from the drive nearer
the center Or pen. The trick, the
easiest and simplest thing in
the word-provided you know
how to do it's, after placing the
marbles in the outer drive, to get them
into tine pen and keep them there until
you choose to release them.
A car and half of these pig puzzles
arrived in st. Paul the other day, and a
short time after business was Stagnant.
Society held its breath, and it seems it
intends to continue to until the end of
Lent. An enterpriSing newSbOy learned
syndicate of bo0tblacks and dudes, he
managed to buy up and corner the
whole cargo. He paid 10 cents
piece for them and sold
the whole lot to members of the senate
and house of representatives for 25 cents
each. The bOOtblack, discerning the
inevitable, proposes to invest his prof
its in good large interest in a new
lunatic asylum to be erected at South
Park, and expresses himself as graft
fed with the outlook for the new insti-
tuition. The Duluth & Winnipeg bill
was killed and so will be every other
Zle. 1t will not be the fault of the pigs
if the cable cars do not stop, or if the
Mississippi does not change its course
and run out Dakota avenue. A GLOBE
reporter broke into the pig puzzle mo-
nOpOly the other evening, and through
the efforts of chlOrOfOrm and some SEN
ate cheese he administered to the mo-
nOpOlist, he managed to get away with
a copy of the latest treatise for the
cracking of empty craniums without
committing outright murder. Thus
armed he went abroad to do the good
work-so long neglected by members of
the legislature-the exercising of the
cerebrum and cerebellum. If they
dropped the puzzle in one minute they
proved to the examiner that they had
sense enough to draw S. day for franz
ing state laws with corn fodder, but if
they
MoNKEYED WITH THE PIGS
long enough to grunt themselves into
nervous fit, then they erased from the
public mind all suspicion of their san
ity. Those who had enough sense to
keep out of the middle of the street,
proved such by sizing up the little con-
triyance and declaring that they could
corner the pigs as we'll as they could
wheat.
lgnatius Donnelly, the sage of Niinger,
had worked on puzzle forty years, and
that he understood more about Shakes
peare, Pig, or Bacon puzzles than any
one else in st. Paul, the reporter sought
out the worthy cOnjurer and, engaging
him upon the movement of the moon, he
managed to draw forth the query what
the box he was carrying cOntained-it
looked so much like an axle grease box.
Here was the chance. And don't think
for moment that it was not embraced
with conyulsive clutch. Off came the
cover and around went the pigs like
seen that before" quOth the sage. 'Oh,
no! then you know what it is to corral
the pigs"
Simple, isn't it?' His face spark
ling with glee. ~ can put them in, Pll
bet dozen cryptOgrams." Then he
began. He first tilted the box and gave
the pigs a. fair chance to buck in the
outside drive.
'sNow we will operate on the cen
tripetal principle and keep them grad
ually moving toward the center. and,
you see, we will get them in the pen."
There, now. Now into the next drive.
Whoa! There's one outside. Now
there!
Here we go for the next. One, two,
how they do fool one-back-now
around. Oh-oh-oh-O'he,m e,mind-pshaw
well, swear, only one in the second
drive and all out in every direction.
Adjusting his glasses with a suggest
i've sniff of the air not yet burdened with
profanity, he cautiously started the
balls down and around the drive.
''Ah! I've got them all in the second
oh! there goes one clean into the pen.
HOLY MOSES, THIS IS SPORT.
Simple as mud. Course, see. there's
another. Wow! Ge cucumbers! Now,
whoambe careful, Old boy. So-there's
three!"
AT this stage of the proceeding the
manipulation was perSpiring like cheap
shower bath. He had three pigs in the
yard Immediately about the pen, and
the rest was easy, of course, thought he.
Bah! all four in the pen. Holy
sausage, it's only matter of getting
them into the pen--now. What! Did
three of them pigs actually escape?
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