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Snowmen at Play on the Mountain?
By Alric C. Tredwell, Our Special Staff Artist.
Like the small boy with only five cents for candy suffers agonies in deciding, so has Ye Ed. Strained to order more type and material for the Trivia Press. We hope the labors of the future will prove the mind-boggling worthwhile.
– A. P. McGinty, Editor and Publisher.
A New Record?
“After reading articles telling of the almost super-human efforts of children and adults who strain to set new records,” said Alonzo J. MacReady, “I am glad I can say I’ve never tried to beat the old record. In fact, I’m rather proud of my ‘record’ as a non-starter. Perhaps I should be included in the list as the man who strenuously avoided being listed!”
Pioneer Philosophy
by Gene E. Vennum
A little old man came riding by.
Said I, “old man, your horse will die.”
He said, “iffen he does I’ll tan his skin
And iffen he don’t I’ll ride him agin.”
Down Memory Lane
by Edith Cleaves, Nostalgia Editor.
Do you remember the visit of Halley’s comet in 1910? What a thrill to see it each night as I had my head on a pillow overlooking the place where it rode in the evening sky. Being a child, I’m afraid I’ve forgotten a lot of details but not that far-flung tail of the comet. To me it was beautiful and clear, each evening and I realized I’d be an old lady if I ever saw it again in 1985!
Horoscope for May.
by Omar Shaduf, the Horoscopist.
May 2: A very good week for an early vacation (providing you have a regular job from which you’d like to escape). A week away in Spring is always pleasant.
May 9: Start nothing this week that’ll require constant attention. The portents are nebulous, even confused.
May 16: Slight improvement in the p., n. and c. department, though no cause for celebration.
May 23: Yippee! All systems “Go” and general jollification is in order. The portents shine as bright as the Dickens through the gloom. Rejoice!
May 30: Joy to All! I’ve just celebrated my 70th birthday and I’m awaiting the next 70!
Giant Powder
by Bill Nye (Circa 1880.)
“It don’t do to fool around with giant powder,” said an old-timer, yesterday, in The Boomerang office. “It is powerful stuff, I had a $10,000 mine over in the Queen of Shelby district in 1854, called the Goshallhemlock claim. I was offered $10,000 for it, with $5,000 in sagebrush placer mine stock besides, if she opened up as well ten foot further down.
“We put in a blast of giant powder, and when we went back to examine her, we couldn’t find the Goshallhemlock with an assessor and a search warrant. The hole was there, but there wasn’t quartz enough to throw at a yaller dog.
“My idea is to sell a mine just before you put in the giant powder, and then if the buyer wants to blow the property into the middle of next year let him do it.”
Editor’s note: Giant powder was used as an explosive before dynamite was invented.
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