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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1908
Page
6
Local Bryan material includes postal notice details and subscription rates. The page carries editorial jabs on morality, politics, and civic pride with opinions on Governor Campbell and tariff policy. It notes livestock disease concerns and a Texas livestock quarantine meeting in Fort Worth.
A Chinese diplomat critiques frogs legs with reluctance while an American mocks his disdain by contrasting it with dogs and rats in his own cuisine. The Chinaman defends edible dogs and rats as clean feeders fed on milk and bread, noting their confinement and meatless diet.
A Suburban Life sketch describes how southern California desert chuckwallas escape via narrow rock crevices. Indigenous hunters learn tricks, using a wire or twig to tap the reptile’s nose. The chuckwalla exhales, loosens, and is pulled free, then cooked.
The article explains coal miners face heat as depth rises, with 65 feet per degree and 98 degrees at 4000 feet making below that level unworkable. It notes solid rock crust is 30 to 40 miles thick and contemplates whether extreme heat and pressure render Earth fluid or solid at greater depths.
The London Chronicle recalls Melchior Anderegg guiding Leslie Stephen and T. Winchliff from London Bridge to Lincoln's Inn Fields through thick fog after a Woolwich trip. A later note has a fanciful mock ritual and a missing Joyner, with comic touches.
Chicago plans six weeks of revival services starting March 1 led by Rev. J Wilbur Chapman of Philadelphia. He will be assisted by ministers and congregations from every Protestant church in the city in cooperation with the Laymen's Evangelistic council.
Brussels bans import and transit of cattle sheep and hogs from the United States until further notice due to the foot and mouth outbreak in America. The measure applies to all shipments passing through Belgium as a precaution.
The megapode, from Australia and the Barrier Reef, builds its own incubator. It leaves its eggs buried in a mound of leaves where heat from fermentation hatches the chicks. The scene notes pale yellow chicks struggling to rise in a reader’s incubator exhibit.
The Glasgow Times recalls the fable of bell the cat and notes the Stirling meeting of Scottish nobles who proposed to hang Spence. Lord Grey questions who will bell the cat, and Earl Archibald Angus volunteers, earning the nickname Archibald Bell the Cat for carrying out the deed.
Private Carl Herbster of the hospital corps killed himself aboard the transport Thomas as it neared San Francisco. He drew a razor from his berth after stepping to the deck and slashed his throat, ending his life while sighting home and native land.
The globe trotter recalls India's census with quirky categories such as 35 men who roll with threats of violence and 226 flatterers for gain. He notes 145 ear cleaners and 9 professional false witnesses, suggesting a stark mirror for our own census if truth were told.
A schoolmaster poses a puzzle about two cabmen leaving London at 6 and 7 miles per hour with a three minute gap. A clever student answers they will meet at the nearest public house. The banter extends to a joke about overtime from a tired office boy and dreamt work.
A Houston Post excerpt features a tourist and a Native discussing soil and crops in the area. The Native notes crop choice depends on seed, and the dialog shifts to a poker party inviting Jinx, who is mocked as a poor poker player.
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