There is a Konigsberg cheesemonger who appears to have studied
the constitutional laws of Prussia, or rather the standing orders of its Parliament, with especial view to their applicability to the art of puffing. He has sent a petition to the second Prussian Chamber requesting that the House will subject his cheese to an examination, and declare its opinion whether his cheese is not able to compete with all other cheeses in the world. The forms of the House require a member to be appointed to report on this, as on every other petition ; and the newspapers of course throughout Prussia all mention this ludicrous incident, and advertise this ingenious man's cheeses at once gratuitously and most effectually. Day and Martin are utterly beaten. Their advertisements on the Pyramids cost them a good deal, and were probably much less effective after all.
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