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Newspaper
Bluffton Banner
Location
Bluffton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1894
Page
9
A Pittsburg Dispatch item recounts a Lyons anecdote from the time of Louis Napoleon. General Castellane, feared commander of Lyons, visits a barber who bragged of ridding the city of the stern ruler. The barber fails to act and the general warns him to avoid threats he cannot back up.
Captain J R Kenly recalls a scene in Jalapa during the Mexican War where US troops lived quietly with locals. A soldier asked to teach native masons, was allowed to work, and impressed the Mexican workers who watched him lay bricks with care and skill.
The article notes manna as a gum from Fraxinus ornus, describing tapping methods and yearly cuts on ash trees and Sicily plantings. It also cites Buffon on planetary cooling, claiming Saturn’s fifth satellite hosted the first habitable world before cooling and death. An American Society incident follows, joking about coat of arms theft between Noodels and Woodells.
In a tense camp, Ivan Dont Remember sells temporary freedom to Gordon and me for a ruble per loaf of bread as hunger drives desperate choices. We share bread, fear betrayal, and discuss Taras and Barry Kavanagh amid shadows of police plots and a looming peril.
Gordon and Ivan Dontremember plot to move Taras and the narrator toward Berlin and London, negotiating with Peter Schemyl over bribes while facing official corruption. They weigh abandoning Taras or crossing the frontier, and the narrator volunteers to join the dangerous trek if it saves Taras.
A rambling dialogue unfolds as a man recounts being struck and seeks two pounds of raw material at a butcher shop. He drifts through odd observations about a man with yellow eyes and dark vision, then shifts to comic phrases and literary critiques from the Youth's Companion.
An 1147 anecdote from Knolles History of the Turks recounts a Turkish rider attempting to fly from a tower, only to crash and break bones as the crowd urged him to fly. The tale contrasts with a later Scottish prison test at Stirling Castle where a condemned man leaped with wings and survived, a non flying fall.
An ob servant young man notes a curiosity that men tend to wear shoes on the outside, while women wear them on the inside. He was asked about the season but offered no clear method of explanation and suggested men alone had a role in the answer.
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