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Show The origin of "foolscap," as related by an old paper maker of ?[Leo, Mass., Massachusetts], was that a half witted youth sat upon a rock, on the top of which was a shallow depression containing some water. In this puddle the boy dropped his ?[Inca] turban and with a stone foolishly and idly pounded it into a pulp. The sun dried the "?[sloe]" or fibro, which had spread itself through the water upon the bottom of the puddle, and so it was lifted out a sheet of paper-foolscap. IN CLOSE QUARTER-A correspondent in Maine writes. ‘In a certain town in Maine, some farmers went out haying and carried a jug of cider which they put in the shade of a tree. While they were at work a snake swallowed a toad, which swelled ?[very] greatly. He then crawled near to the jug, which was tipped over on the ground, and spied another toad on the other side ?[seeing] the quickest way, the snake stuck his head through the handle of the jug and quickly swallowed the poor toad. Now, to the snake's amazement, he could not move either way, as he had swallowed a toad on either side of the handle. In that peculiar position he was captured by the farmers." |