The further they go down the softer it is, and it has been
learned that the quarry is all head cheese, such as is sold by butchers.
On top it is petrified, and polishes very nicely, but a little below it is
nice and fresh, and can be cut out with a knife, all ready for the table.
A friend in Milwaukee, who has an uncle living at Grand Rapids, has
furnished us with a quantity of it, some of which we have eaten, and were
it not for the fact that we know it came from the quarry, it would be hard
to convince us that it was not concocted out of the remains of a butcher
shop. The people up there talk of running Hon. J.N. Brundage for Congress,
on the head cheese ticket, in order that he may use his influence to get
head cheese adopted as an army ration, and also as currency with which to
wipe out the national debt.
PECK'S BAD BOY AND HIS PA.
HIS PA AN INVENTOR.
"Ha! Ha! Now I have got you," said the grocery man to the had boy, the
other morning, as he came in and jumped upon the counter and tied the end
of a ball of twine to the tail of a dog, and "sicked" the dog on another
dog that was following a passing sleigh, causing the twine to pay out
until the whole ball was scattered along the block. "Condemn you, I've a
notion to choke the liver out of you. Who tied that twine to the dog's
tail?"
The boy choked up with emotion, and the tears came into his eyes, and he
said he didn't know anything about the twine or the dog.
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