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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1895
Page
16
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A recipe for a mustard plaster with mustard flour and ginger is given with cautions. The text then offers social humor, including jests about a woman with a child and a Glasgow merchant in Paris. Brief anecdotes touch on vanity, mail theft, and a president’s potato planting with a neighbor.
Queen Mim of Korea allegedly enforced purchase of government offices, jailed dissenters, and kept guards ready for escape. The Philadelphia Ledger notes her tyrannical rule amid fortune tellers and guarded routines. Other items recount olive oil quality tests, Pasteur’s cautionary dining, a hog case jury view, a parasol misadvertisement, a Tibet exit tale, and more brief curios.
An English earl’s son in Vienna attends a dinner with nobles and clever ladies. A prominent lady asks why English people speak French poorly. He quips that Austrians use French as freely as their own language, noting past Austrian entertainments of Frev...
The article notes that squaring the circle, making a square whose area equals a circle, is impossible by elementary geometry or arithmetic. It states the diameter to circumference ratio cannot be found exactly, even with 10,000 decimal figures, and that mathematicians have long given up on the problem.
A St. Paul man jokes with a Minneapolis suitor about marriage and census counting. The Minneapolis man defends the union and quips that they count as two for census purposes, prompting surprised laughter.
A Detroit Free Press item notes a diner refusing Hash restaurant meals after hearing the proprietor tell a delinquent patron to pony up. The piece touches on the word knave with a historical aside about its evolving meaning from a beverage to a servant and then to a general idle rogue.
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