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Show Mamma "Why did you pray that Uou should stop your sister from telling stories? sto-ries? Small Son Because she promised me she wouldn't tell that I took the cakes, Uid sba did tuil Gqc4 Nwi. A unique petition has turned up on the house side among some old papera The memorialist is a woman, and she asks congress to appropriate $500 to enable en-able her to perfect and place upon the market sundry inventions, which she lacks means to secure patents upon. She says: "I have asked assistance from most every one I thought most likely to aid. I began on the common liner, went on to the thousanders, then to million aires, governors and the president not the present president but I asked Brother Arthur. They all paid as deal an ear to it as the Alps would to the chirp of a snowbird." She asks con gress to "look into the patent office treasury and see if you can find an idle $500 that is doing no one any good. Bring it out and let me use it for a season. Money, like trees, yields mon. by being stirred about the roots." Washington Post Is a frog a fish? This is the problem which the officials of the Dominion fishery fish-ery department have recently had to consider. Petitions were forwarded to the department from the inhabitants of Northumberland, Ont, praying for a close season for frogs. A lucrative trade in the shipment of frogs' legs had been done in that county, but it was discovered discov-ered that the very time when the frogs are spawning is ono when the greatest havoo is wrought among them. Possibly Possi-bly a change will be made in the fishery laws so as to embrace frogs. The officers say that in their einbryotic stage frogs are certainly fishes, but later on they take an amphibious character. Halifax Hali-fax Herald. |