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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1900
Page
3
The Daily Eagle issue from December 15 1900 lists postal class handling and subscription rates. It features light humor exchanges from the Chicago News and a gag about an uncle named Jerry with a hot potato tale.
A new composer, son of Eduard Strauss and nephew of Johann II, has already written an operetta and plans a world tour this year with the Johann Strauss Vienna Orchestra.
In a Tennessee tale Zeb White recalls whisky stash in a mine shaft and a bear guarding the exit. While trapped, his wife’s rope trick and fiddle music lead to a night of reckoning and a plan to solve how the creatures entered the ark.
In a crowded corner exchange a man with three walnut shells and a pea challenges onlookers. Herr Hopf bets a dollar against the shell man and then covers all three shells, insisting he cannot lose.
The Newcastle Chronicle notes heat spread depends on radiation conduction and convection. Dull dark substances radiate well while polished surfaces radiate poorly. Metals vary in conductivity from silver high to iron and zinc lower, with glass wood gases and resins as poor conductors. Water's poor conduction can boil only at the top while the bottom stays cold.
The Weatherford Chronicle recounts a comical anecdote about a cow that died after drinking excessive water. The piece notes the tale as a warning to other cows and lampoons the animal’s behavior and local humor.
The Government plans three connected buildings at Buffalo by Rasmussen & Strehlow of Omaha. Main structure 400 by 130 feet with a 250 foot dome, smaller buildings 150 feet square. Government exhibits will be updated as officials prepare displays. A stray line about a Christmas prison release in Atlanta appears.
Lord Beauchamp governor of New South Wales dined 70 guests in a Newcastle coal mine banquet chamber 300 feet underground. Electric lights flags evergreen and carpets turned the 90 by 15 by nine foot space into an elegant dining room.
The Atchison Globe notes a pointed joke about love letters and expressions of affection, saying people often feel loved more in their own imagination than in reality. It lampoons the idea of knowing another’s true depth of feeling.
Granger recalls earning 2002 dollars on the second day in the Klondike and Nabberly asks about the timing. The humorous exchange ends with the reply that the speaker dined, capturing a wry glimpse of frontier life.
Mrs Alexander Capperton, Walter Scott’s longtime servant, died in Kirkhill Scotland. She entered service at age sixteen and recalled Scott’s heavy footfalls at five each morning for his breakfast. She was present at his death and received a lock of his hair from Mrs Lockhart.
A suburban client faces a divorce suit with the judge urging compromise. The dialogue contrasts extreme cruelty as grounds with a call for an amicable adjustment, while a humorous misstep mentions a bucksaw and axe as a failed remedy.
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