Elements of Humor and the Joy of Wit
Samuel M. Crothers notes two humor ingredients: love and wit gives body and effervescence. Humor gains from liking what surprises us, like meeting an old friend unexpectedly. Detachment of mind permits a humorous view without fear or anger, contrasting childish bravado with mature understanding.
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Thackeray
Samuel M. Crothers
Atlantic
Dr. Johnson
Bunyan
Ignorance
Samuel Johnson
Fielding
Squire Western
London Homes Stand Empty Believed Hauntings Fear
Scores of houses in London remain tenantless as residents fear haunting activity. Local property owners report persistent vacant homes and residents worry about safety and superstitions influencing occupancy.
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London
Factlets on science and colonies from old period notes
A miscellany of terse curiosities covers cork buoyancy for a 154 pound man, a mild internal use of Lyddite, tin as an ancient metal, and China's historic brasswork. It cites Gottingen's Georgia Augusta University with 1325 students, eagle plume demand affecting buzzards, color effects in battle casualties, and a German postage stamp rollout with 264 total issues for philatelists.
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Gottingen
Georgia
Augusta
Volidampf Voraus
Wonderful Procession of Babies Ends With Humorous Note
A humorous feature discusses a statistician’s claim that if all infants born in a year lined up in cradles the line would circle the globe. The imagined procession moves past observers for a year at 20 babies per minute, revealing delays and a growing rearguard of older children. A brief Atchison Globe quip about a man firing a cook for cooking well closes the piece.
Museum Freak Swallows Objects For Crowd Entertainment
John Sasel a 22 year old in New York swallowed chains keys hairpins pins nails and a ring to amuse museum visitors He was operated on at St Johns Hospital Brooklyn by Dr George G Hopkins after an X ray showed foreign bodies Two watch chains two latch keys six hairpins 125 pins ten nails two horseshoe nails and one ring were removed Doctors say all objects were taken and Sasel has shown improvement but his full recovery remains uncertain
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New York
John Sasel
Manhattan
George G. Hopkins
St. John’s Hospital
Brooklyn
Hopkins
Sasel
Eagle Carries Off a Baby in Village Near Nice
A baby in the cradle at House near Nice was seized by an eagle and carried away. The incident highlights dangers to children from birds in the countryside and attracts local concern.
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Europe
France
House
Nice
Blank space leads to confiscation in Austrian paper
An Austrian editor faced confiscation after omitting the leading article and placing a sly apology in its stead. The next morning a clerk told him the paper was seized for malicious ridicule of imperial institutions by the omission.
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Austria
Kleine Zeitung
Interaction of senses in taste and flavor perception
The article explains how one sense enhances another, noting that temperature affects taste. Cold objects feel heavier, sweetness can rise with counteracting flavors, and excessive sweetness dulls flavor. Cooks and perfumers use contrasting elements to lift taste and scent.
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Milton
Louisville Courier- Journal
Witty Quotes and Inventions in Comic Snippets
A collection of quips from various papers includes remarks on looks and fortune, love versus machinery, religious verse on yeastcake boxes, a rejected suitor’s despair, and a boastful inventor. The jokes touch on obsession with appearance, laboring amid modernization, and cross humor about gas meters and golf.
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Chicago Chronicle
Philadelphia Bulletin
Omaha World-Herald
Joax
Philadelphia Record
Central
South America
Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph
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Cohen
Vail Serges
Ullman Brothers
John F.cook
Noble Street
M.F
Doering
The
Southern
L. & N. Railways
A. G. Duke
West Fifteenth Street
Atchison
Atchison Globe
Ireland
Henry Shepard
Northampton
Mass
Florida
Ssese
Anniston
Globe Clothing CO
China
Anniston Trading CO
Papa
L.H. Carre
J.T. Chrisman
Boyer
J. L. Yearman
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