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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1906
Page
8
The passage recalls Prince Talleyrand fleeing London with twenty hours’ notice. He boarded a Danish vessel to America but was halted by an English frigate. A search found him. he offered to be the ship’s cook to avoid captivity, donning a cotton cap and apron. The captain joked about a limping French cook and spared him.
A New York artist recalls Vermont sketches where he sketched a country boy on a rail fence. An old farmer admires the scene and jokes about how the boy stayed still. The anecdote appears in the New York Herald as a humorous memory of art and observation.
A travel piece recalls Rimini’s historic scenes from Caesar crossing the Rubicon to St. Anthony’s famed sermon to fishes. It notes a chapel by the water and the tale of Paolo and Francesca the famous tragedy of love, highlighting the city’s storied past.
E W Weston describes the Grand Canyon as vast and sublime, deeper than six thousand feet in a cavernous gulf. He compares its scale to a submerged continent, noting the sheer depth and dramatic clefts that dwarf Niagara Falls and could swallow whole cities as one stands at its rim.
In the Malay archipelago a reptile resembles a mythical dragon with false ribs forming winglike skin. A frog with spreading feet creates a parachute to glide between trees. A flying lemur can unfold its body and leap up to a hundred feet across treetops.
The Gold and Silver Gospels, a unique violet vellum volume with silver letters and gold initials, is preserved in Upsala library. The printer and methods remain unknown, sparking curiosity among scholars.
A landlady asks whether to send her daughter to cooking or music school. The boarder replies cooking school, noting it may be more fatal in its results but is far less noisy.
A brief quip from the New York Sun about how children are admitted to a residence, with a playful line about bringing them in under the cover of musical instruments.
Edge community residents report thriving farm finances and multiple updates. Beard Crenshaw begin a $1200 mercantile building project. W H McMichael, Ballard Moore, L C Elliott, Tom Cross and Elbert plan homes and wells. Beard Crenshaw buy Edge gin with Jno Thompson to manage. social visits and a play trip also noted.
President Harrington received a letter from Prof. J. H. Shepperd of North Dakota praising Texas College Station students for their stock judging team. He notes the group won second place in horse judging at the International Fat Stock Show, highly creditable in a field led by Iowa and Ohio.
Collier and Caldwell announces a final weekend sale of high grade pianos at medium prices. Customers can find bargains including a $525 Ivers & Pond mahogany upright now $390 and a $400 upright reduced to $250 with several new uprights around $200.
Five female suffragists were arrested for attempting a meeting in Parliament precincts in London. They appeared in police court and were fined five dollars each or two weeks in jail. Earlier prosecutions set a precedent for prison terms in similar cases.
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