This great
discovery, which will be of such value to the future historian, has only
cost the state the insignificant sum of $8,280. Rather than remain in
ignorance of this astonishing fact, I would willingly pay the money
myself--out of the public treasury. It is rumored that parties employed by
the State to dive down into the ground and bring up sand in their claws,
have discovered symptoms that the world was at one time sick to its
stomach, and threw up divers and sundry kinds of rocks and things, and
there is a probability that lead ore may be discovered. This will be
valuable to make bullets in case of a war with Oshkosh. In peace it is
always best to prepare for war, and I trust you will lend your countenance
to the able men who are investigating the Lower Silurian age.
FOOLING WITH THE BIBLE.
Reports from the stationers show that there is no demand at all for the
revised edition of the Bible, and had it not been for the newspapers
publishing the whole affair there would have been very few persons that
took the trouble to even glance at it, and it is believed that not one
reader of the daily papers in a hundred read any of the Bible, and not one
in ten thousand read all of it which was published. Who originated this
scheme of revising the Bible we do not know, but whoever it was made a
miscue.
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