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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1900
Page
5
A Russian report describes how Siberian freight relies on tips to officials known as greasing. A merchant shipping fruit from Irkutsk to Chita paid 170 rubles in charges plus 120 rubles in tips, with car sickness delays used to extract more payments at every stop, leading merchants to bake tips into prices for consumers.
A laundry manager recalls two notable losses from customers garments. A woman sent dresses with $100 in bills in a pocket, which floated in the wash and emerged intact after drying and ironing. In a separate case, a man forgot a $150 diamond stud in shirt bosom. staff later found it in the sewer catch basin after a call reporting the loss.
A squatter on an Australian estate planned a duke of Edinburgh visit with fine shooting. Lacking reading taste, the squatter ordered a ton of books from a Melbourne bookseller via telegram for immediate delivery. The books were gathered and shelved by dawn before the duke arrived, per the London Chronicle account.
The article notes that in regions without clocks a Chinaman can tell time by examining a cat’s eyes. Pupils contract to a fine line at midday and dilate after twelve, a physiological explanation. It quips that the practice could affect watchmaking if adopted locally.
A tale from the Chicago Tribune recalls Countess of Dartmouth escorting her daughters the Ladies Legge at Stafford House. A nearly deaf official misnames them, causing a comic exchange. The scene ends with a rebuke from the offended party and a witty retort about the name Delia Miller.
Naturalists on the U S Mexico boundary resurvey describe a dramatic encounter in the Cocopah mountains of Lower California. A California vulture seized a nearly five foot rattlesnake, struggled aloft, then dropped it. The snake wriggled free and fell, but the vulture caught it in midair, killing it, before soaring away to feast on the kill.
The rose symbolized silence in Greek myth and was linked to secrecy in banqueting halls and doors of questionable resorts. Pausanias plotted with Xerxes to betray the Greeks, sought asylum, and was walled up as punishment, possibly dying from starvation or being buried by a collapsing roof.
A bank manager recalls a conversation with a farmer and his wife near Greeba castle about Hall Caine. They question his occupation, calling him lazy after learning he writes popular books, revealing local attitudes toward the famed author.
The Scots pictorial reports a Jedburgh graveyard discovery of a tombstone erected in 1798 by a bailie of Jethart for his wife Alison Renwick. Time and moss have worn the front, shaping a face that locals deem a likeness of the deceased, a claim hard to disprove as no living person could have seen her.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer quip notes a rule about lying to the old and leaving meals hungry, prompting a boarding house joke that if followed, every fellow could live to a hundred. The humorous line plays on appetite and age.
A lively quip from Baltimore American mocks promotion for a play titled Th Black Vow of Vengeance claiming it killed 16 in the first act. A Philadelphia Record quip notes No One cannot arrest time and a bystander jokes about stopping a minute.
A fragment lists westbound Chicago Xpress at 8:00 am and 7:45 am departures, No. 38 Freight, No. 8 Atlantic Ex, No. 16 Sioux City and Omaha Ex, No. 6 Overland Limited, No. 2 Chicago Ex, and No. 4 Chicago Special.
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