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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1876
Page
10
A compilation of observations from Gheel Belgium detailing its six century lunatic care system with 11 000 residents boarding 1300 outsiders, then brief notes on Mexico politics, a potato bug fable, and varied world items including census gains in South Carolina and a Washington chair count during the revolutionary war.
A man sawing wood in a back yard declares his country needs him to fight Indians. His wife bluntly questions his plan and jokes that catching a squaw would require many like him, then he wonders who told her.
Albany Press reports a talking Brazilian monkey named Little Jean Larousse who will visit the Paris Exposition of 1878. Found in its mother's arms after a polecat attack on the Amazon riverbank, the creature was taught to utter syllables and words including Papa Mamma Maranon Brazil. The account asks if the so called missing link has been found.
A Massachusetts official displays a thousand year old Hebrew roll, four books of Moses on skin, forty two lines per page. Separately Bainbridge, Ohio, refuses $800000 railroad subscriptions citing contract breaches by directors. A servant confesses breaking a vase, though the mistress suspects otherwise.
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