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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1900
Page
1
A well dressed young man aboard a trolley car bound for the amusement park teased inspectors and company staff during a passenger tally. When asked to recall him at the count, the inspector quipped that the company could stand it and had not missed much, drawing laughter from all aboard.
The dialogue sketches life as a fleeting show and questions of purpose in a railway car exchange. It mentions Lord Rakeleigh and Miss Gothamme across a 500 year descent, plus a Quay teaching stint in Texas and a near Civil War choice. A Texas volunteer quips about military language from truck driving.
A humorous note on new MPs causing nervous laughter in the House of Commons in 1879 and similar missteps by leaders in 1894 and Lord Iddesleigh. It also surveys annual beer consumption by country and city, listing per capita litres for Davari, Belgium, Britain, and the United States, and national production figures for 1897–98.
A fall in a dredging claim uncovered a large man’s egg floating in water in Central Otago. This marks the second known perfect man’s egg, the first found in Kakoura mountains in the 1860s. The egg measures roughly nine by seven inches. a hat serves as an egg cup for scale.
A Cleveland paint firm showcased its trade mark the chameleon with a live specimen from India at the Continental hotel in Philadelphia during a session of Master Car and Locomotive Builders. Thomas Madill of Chicago represented the firm and explained the animal’s color-changing ability when placed on different colored papers.
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