Williams, of Prairie
du Chien, for a large amount and took his pay in trade.
RAISING ELEPHANTS.
Why not go to raising elephants? A good elephant will sell for eight
thousand dollars. A pair of elephants can be bought by a community of
farmers pooling their issues and getting a start, and in a few years every
farm can be a menagerie of it own, and every year we can rake in from
eight to twenty-four thousand dollars from the sale of surplus elephants.
It may be said that elephants are hearty feeders, and that they would go
through an ordinary farmer in a short time. Well, they can be turned out
into the highway to browse, and earn their own living. This elephant
theory is a good one, and any man that is good on figures can sit down and
figure up a profit in a year sufficient to go into bankruptcy.
THE POWER OF ELOQUENCE.
A justice of the peace at Menasha, wanted to kill Pratt, the editor of the
_Press_. The matter has been compromised, however. Pratt got the justice
cornered up, and delivered one of the speeches to him that he delivered
during the campaign last fall, and the justice got on his knees and said,
"Pratt, this thing is all right, I surrender."
A TRYING SITUATION.
It was along in the winter, and the prominent church members were having a
business meeting in the basement of the church to devise ways and means to
pay for the pulpit furniture.
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