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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1892
Page
1
A collage of Victorian era verse and prose pieces reflecting nostalgia for a Golden Age, contrast with modern inventions, and frontier humor. Included are poems on Arcadian pastimes, excerpts on Sir Walter Scott and literary notes, a long yarn about coffee and hospitality during the Civil War, and a rural narrator’s reminiscence of a woman named Dora and a hired man’s yearning.
The article recounts the tale of a three year old boy named English hired by P P Barmuna after a showman’s agent. he wowed audiences with drumming, becoming a famed feature of Barnum's museum reported by the Macon Telegraph. It also contrasts Langshan and Cochin fowl breeds, detailing differences in feathers, legs, size, and maturity, noting Langshan can fly while Cochin is heavier and more compact.
A Boston rapid transit scene follows a little girl riding alone with her dolly. She fears a looming danger while awaiting her father. In a crowded station a man arrives, recognizing the child and calling her “Dess.” The tale closes with a father’s instinctive relief and a Brooklyn life quip about Masson.
A poem reflecting longing for a mysterious ideal love the speaker calls the girl he has never met. He praises beauty and wit of unseen women, then declares devotion to the virtue of the girl still unknown, contemplating fate and possible absence. Published by William T. in the New York Sun.
A stark, lyric fragment depicts monstrous crocodiles on banks and ichaemons creeping as rushes and tall grass crowd the pools. Flamingoes sleep under a deadly heat as silence and drought mute the shore. The poem references a sun scorched town and a continent named Hrodhag amid insolence.
A humorous Harvard Lampoon piece riffs on romance and weather with a whimsical owl narrator. The poem parodies a courtship tale by mishearing words and replacing key nouns with playful puns. It plays on deflated objects and wool in a lighthearted nocturnal scene.
In a San Francisco Chronicle clipping, Patrick Shine dies April 6 1890 leaving wealth to his wife Ellen who dies June 6 1890 intestate. Public Administrator James C Pennie searches heirs. Mrs Mary Ann Johnson learns Ellen Dooley had Irish kin including nephew Joseph Cotter near Cork. Canon Hegarty confirms relation. Cotter is named sole heir to two Garden Street and O Neil Healy tract lots. The tale ends with a dream guiding discovery.
Dr Weir Mitchell recounts a physician friend who refused a prompt payment deduction, insisting he sells a priceless service. The debtor finally overpaid with a check for three times the debt, which the doctor refused, then sent to a hospital where the physician was involved.
A famed statesman visited Tilden’s Gramercy Park home in New York and admired its dining room. He asked a decorator to recreate the room, insisting he would pay any cost, only to learn the Gramercy room valued at $50,000.
A peculiar tale from the Lincoln Home for the Feeble Minded describes a yearly flight by the boys after rumors of a buried bag of gold at the rainbow arch. The boys, said to be driven by fairy tale fascination, flee each summer following large rainbow storms when conditions are right.
Epoch quotes a witty exchange showing a fashionable church pastor offered to write an essay on bonnets. The remark plays on expectation and the clergy role in public culture, reflecting social manners in the period.
A witty exchange from a New York Press item features a traveler politely declining a poker game. The gambler questions chance, but the traveler asserts his issue is playing a game with no chance.
Rider Haggant requests pronunciation of his given name as Reeder. Oliver Wendell Holmes stops writing to rest. Zala collects curios and bric a brac. Walt Whitman built a granite tomb replica of Solomon’s temple near Camden. Jules Verne’s tales reside in an observatory on his Amiens house. Guy de Maupassant, of slight height and soldier bearing, rumored to be deranged. W Hamilton Gilson, famed for nature sketches, is a stout man with a black beard and lively eyes. He is a premier storyteller.
A stranger alights at Guion depot and a fraudy telescope bag bursts, spilling clothing and belongings on the platform. As he gathers the scattered items amid amused onlookers, a second mishap unfolds with the bag breaking again and a pink string unraveling behind him.
Describes bee anatomy and behavior with the tongue, wax plates, and wax shedding implements. Notes wax glands under the abdomen, plates for wax flakes, and cutters between hind leg joints. Explains chewing wax, pollen gathering hind legs, and front leg combs for cleaning antennae.
A Philadelphia medical student blurted out croton oil dosage as a teaspoonful during a surprise quiz. Twenty minutes later the professor revealed the error with a fatal irony, noting the patient had died fourteen minutes previously.
A Bangor parishioner explained a Sunday anthem absence by saying the soprano dreamt an angel instructed her to sing anthem No. 56. She refused to be bossed and stayed away, sparking local talk in the Bangor Commercial.
A very fine diamond named the Mattam weighs 67 carats and is said to be of first water. It resembles a pear in shape with a distinctive indentation at the larger end. Found near Landak in Borneo in 1760, it has reportedly sparked several sanguinary wars.
An extraordinary coal field development is reported in West York shire England. Mines in the region are expected to reach an annual capacity of 80 million tons within three years according to the New York Journal.
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