| Show TIIE THE otner OTHER avas WAY ABOUT hene HEHE is a published account of a speech ra made by general M 11 bane at ogden on saturday gell geli he e told an amusing anecdote about a boy whose father had given him a problem in arithmetic on monday morning the answer to be forthcoming by friday afternoon the problem was if a frog in a well 47 feet deep jumped up two feet a day and fell back three feet how long would it itt take for that frog to emerge from the well the tile boy figured at it and tolled toiled over it and at length when friday afternoon arrived he went to his father and said papa ive worked faithfully and antt hard afthim at this thing since monday last ive racked my brains and donea done till 11 1 could to solve the intricate problem and I 1 t think ink if just let me have four tour days more I 1 think I 1 can figure that fro into bell beli the general said that president arthur was the lather father and governor murray the tile son in that story and i all that the latter wanted was lust just four years more to ligure figure this mormon question to where the f frog I 1 rog would be found when the boy got through his calculations the general who w ho is the bane of the liberal party for which there la is no 1 antidote is an unfortunate mortal who never opens his mouth without putting his bis foot in it lu in presenting the simile he f forgot to take into account governor Mur mu murrays rray rays 9 s peculiar mathematics 11 by his special system of figures he declared I 1 loo votes to be ba of greater account thin thlu th iu in and by that method baist allen alien U G campbell campbeli Campbelll nto into congress but the problem worked the other way so w with th the frog murrays Mur rays mathematics intended nt to take it downward willlia will lift it clear out of the well while the liberal bi party for whose benefit the governor works his figures takes the descending jou journey mey to the lower lover depths |
