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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1885
Page
4
A theatrical mix of verses about a pampered cat and a detailed, graphic description of elephant capture in Asia. The prose includes jokes, children’s questions, photography progress, and a long anecdote about a quilt, ending with literary notes and a London Standard review excerpt.
Old Sierra Nevada miners favor rats in the mines, feeding and protecting them. They believe rats warn of cave-ins and signal ore when a rat appears in a new drift. A rat crossed a 2,700 level crosscut, and veteran workers defended it, hoping luck and ore would follow.
Wm H Lowers says many dogs show fits not rabies and no mad dog cases reported this season. A physician explains hydrophobic dogs do not froth at the mouth and describes rabies as a heat and exercise driven illness. London Home for Lost Dogs reports no genuine rabies in twelve years despite many dogs housed.
A man who has been winged recovers from heartbreak and gains romantic status as others pity him. Angelina counsels Edwin through pique cynicism and desire for sympathy guiding him toward an intended marriage. Some cases end with the suitor awakening too late.
A confidential clerk from an inland town travels to Philadelphia for business. He faces a choice between a tempting invitation to a theater and a Christian association invitation offering church attendance and libraries. He chooses the latter, narrowly avoids danger, and returns home wiser.
A Providence Journal reminiscence recalls Nathaniel Hawthorne at a Bowdoin College commencement dinner in 1825. After praised as a gifted son, Hawthorne quietly slipped out under the tent and vanished before the scheduled speech, amusing attendees and underscoring his famed constitutional shyness.
A courtroom exchange reveals a man denying intimate knowledge of a woman who is described as his wife though he claims only a short acquaintance. The dialogue mocks social pretensions and features caricatured rural speech.
A poem by Monroe celebrates God’s creation across mountains, forests, seas, mines, and workshops. It places human labor within divine design, noting that every realm from rivers to coal pits displays the Master’s mind. The speaker admits uncertainty about eternity but trusts in faith through nature and work.
The article recounts a West Point revival where Leonidas Polk, later a Southern bishop, transformed from a careless student to a diligent scholar with divine aid during a difficult mathematics exam. It also discusses Choctaw language usage of oke, its link to the English OK, and the Jacksonian adoption of the term, plus a note on how OK’s origin is viewed by historians.
A German waiter ferries after a fleeing couple who left without paying. The scuffle ends with the waiter returning with a bruised eye and jaw as patrons note his threat to make them saddle up or face a wallop. The Herald reports the incident with period-appropriate banter.
The article maps Atlantic and Pacific forest contrasts across North America. It details northern subarctic belts, coastal pine zones, and Mexican flora, noting the Mississippi basin's deciduous forests and historical western forest loss. It also describes fire, sod, and wind as factors in treeless plains and recent regrowth where fires are controlled.
A ministerly exchange in the Chicago Ledger recounts an Indiana trustee’s admission of pious upbringing and a fall into temptation after surveying weak law. The Hoosier explains he trusted in divine aid but found none when Pollard warned him of legal loopholes, leading to a moral lapse.
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