The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-02-19
ODDS AND ENDS.

Quite large number Of inmates
have sent in the correct solution
to the problem which appeared in
these columns two weeks ago. The
first solution to- reach the Odds
and Ends man was that of O. NJ,
1917, who works in our shop. But
70. M. doesn't know that he and
the writer are in the same shop.
He knows he is there, but he
doesn't know who the Odds and
Ends man is, or where he works.
1T is often said of people in large
cities that many of them do not
know who their nearest neighbor
is, but we can beat them in the
matter OF being strangers to one
another. Here many men who
have lived in the same house for
years do not know one another.
How many are there who are writ
ing for the same paper and in the
same house here who know one
another? For instance there is
Chowchow and some others whom
the Odds and Ends man doesn't
know from "Murphy's off OK"
But, returning to the subject,
the farmer first takes the goose
across the river, then returns for
the fox, taking him across and
then carrying the goose back to
where he started and leaving it
while he takes the corn over; then
he returns and gets the basket of
corn. j. P. r.. 1854, and A. I. B.
(not the Heliogram man) handled
Mrs. Goose properly and made
their identity known, and one poet.
Wood B. Longfellow by name, is
responsible for the following:
Using the letter A as the start
ing point and the letter B as the
objective point,
He took the goose from A to B,
| And then went back to A,
And took the fox across to B.
| And brought the goose away.
| Then back to A he brought the goose,
| And took the corn away;
1 Then took the corn across to B,
| And left the goose at A.
| The fox and corn were then at B,
The goose was still at A;
Then back across the stream he went,
And brought the goose away.
The man, the fox. the goose, and corn,
Were then across at B;
He'd crossed the river seven times,
The goose had crossed it three.
Here is another which arrived
at the eleventh hour from L. S. NJ,
a Minneapolis reader of The MIR
ROR:
He takes the goose across the river,
And leaves the fox and corn together:
Returning, takes the corn across,
Brings back the goose for fear of loss,
And takes the fox, who'd much prefer
To stay on thelsame side with her;
Once more he neighbors with the corn,
And then the farmer-sure's you're born
j Comes with the goose and stays to watch
Lest either should the other catch.
| L. s. M.
Speaking of human nature. a
most interesting article on "a few
reasons why we should avoid the
first steps in a downward course, .
recently appeared in the Mime
, apolis Chronicle. 1t seems some.
what remarkable, as the writer oil
: that article reminds us, that it is g
4 thousand times harder for the
majority of mankind to break
away from an evil habit than 9
good one. It is the easiest thing
: in the world to break friendships
: to cease to be kind, to cease to be
! charitable, but when it comes te
resisting the temptation to drink
, to risk the last dollar on game Of
: cards, dice, the turn of a wheel
ETC., etc., there is where humanity
9 finds it difficult to stop.
A good habit weaves chain
{ like the meshes of spiders web
. hard to create and easy to destroy
n bad habit oraafas an irnn. ho1anG