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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1897
Page
3
A compact collage of early 20th century quips and verse from the Louisville Courier Journal and Atlanta Constitution. Snippets include a playful remark about thieves, a theater anecdote, a missionary cannibal riddle, and a rural themed poem about fishing and fortune, reflecting light humor and period slang.
A string of witty exchanges reveals strained social ties and humor about drinking warnings sleep awakenings and marriage. Characters like Yabsley, A, and Gus Snobberly exchange opinions on relatives neighbors and poets while lines about money, blues, and boredom surface amid retorts and sly quips.
Green is spring color and sailor hats dominate millinery with wider fronts and varied adornments. Fashions echo Parisian tastes in skirts sleeves and colors while light diaphanous materials rule for summer. Practical notes cover cleaning methods for pewter metal fabrics and household tips for ironing ears eyeing comfort. Major Calhoun editor of the Standard, author of Marching Through Georgia, once Sherman’s officer who lost a leg, is noted.
Mrs Hearst gives 175000 to Episcopal Cathedral trustees for a girls school to be built on cathedral grounds and linked with the church. Other notes chronicle London notable Mrs Evans rise from inn maid to wife of a merchant, Lady Tennyson's musical tie, Mrs Gilder’s daughters caring for virtue, Paris laundresses contest, Balti more club Quadriga, Bishop Potter's daughters varied talents, Austrian Gen Sommer training dogs for mountain mail delivery, turmeric from East and Indian regions.
The piece notes Daniel Webster’s connection to Concord’s notable families including his sister in law aged nearly ninety four and Calvin C Webster, misidentified as a relative. It recalls Webster as a youth fishing at local streams. It also mentions German painters Schrader Achenbach and Menzel reaching eighty, with Menzel drawing left handed and painting right, Schrader’s eyes failing, and Sir John Pender stating ocean cables have cost over 200 million dollars with eleven Atlantic lines in place totaling about 70 million dollars.
In this New York Herald vignette a fat man and a tall friend discuss a hot country gambling game called fly too. A New England professor tests a scientific theory on houseflies using sugar, winning big by observing insects dine, and praises entomology as a delightful study.
Speaker Gully of the House of Commons plans to appoint his son private secretary, a gesture seen as a compliment to the United States Senate. The late Col. William W. Berry of Quincy, Illinois, famed as a gallant soldier and Western Illinois lawyer, led the Louisville Legion in war and later practiced alongside ex Secretary Browning. John Wesley, founder of Methodism, began his ministry in Savannah and served several years as rector of Christ Episcopal Church, unchanged in exterior but later remodeled inside.
Gentian is derived from a plant that naturally grows extensively in the Alps and Apennines, regions across Europe. It also appears in other European mountain areas and in certain mountainous districts of the United States.
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