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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1898
Page
3
H and T C time table for Hearne and connected lines notes arrivals and departures. Local news includes visits and travels of Brigance Fountain Leathers Brandon Dillashaw Curry Millican and others, plus fishing deer and quail from a recent hunt and missionary society meeting at the Methodist church.
A collection of anecdotes from late 19th century papers recounts the Lincoln assassination's swift spread and postmaster town gossip, a staged child authored play with a dramatic ending, Fox's book sale with a sharp quip on politics, seaside hotel humor, a crab tale, and shopkeeper anecdotes about patient customers and change delays.
The piece discusses difficulties in harvesting porpoise oil for commerce, noting nets or rifles as possible methods and debates whether fatally hit porpoises sink. It also recounts Mary E Phillips recalling William Wetmore Story and James Lowell reacting to Daniel Webster’s 1842 Faneuil Hall speech with evolving admiration.
A comic exchange shows a painter and client arguing over a piazza scene with the sunlit front while the sitter must pose on the back stoop. The anecdote plays on truth to art and the nature of perspective. In another vignette a vigilante gathering rushes to hang Tam the wrong man while the chair warns hurry may prove his innocence.
A young artist known for pipe glasses and blond hair attends a garden party for sketching society life. While social duties fade, he sits on a fence as pencil studies spread. A prank tugs his back hair and a horse nibbles his locks, provoking a shocked oath and laughter among onlookers.
The youngest grandmother on record is Lady Child of Shropshire who married at 12 and had a child before 13, becoming a grandmother at 27. Mrs Honeywood of Charing and Lady Temple of Stow yield the most remarkable lineages, with 16 children and 114 grandchildren plus 228 great grandchildren for Mrs Honeywood, and Lady Temple’s 4 sons and 9 daughters leading to over 700 descendants.
Professor Rizzozero promotes boiling water and milk of uncertain purity to overcome prejudice. He argues that the so called taste in boiled water stems from the kettle rather than lacking dissolved air, which wells from great depths may have little of.
A dialogue from Harper's Bazar features Mad pop vowing a harsh spanking for Willy if he misbehaves. Mrs. Madpop counters that the neck is no place to spank a child, urging seriousness in the exchange.
Dialogue excerpt reveals a tense exchange between a Irascible lieutenant and a voice from the engine room as a blunt retort ends with a punch. The brief humor hinges on misdirection and terse nautical tone.
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