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Newspaper
Devils Lake Inter Ocean
Location
Devils Lake, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1899
Page
7
Rider Haggard notes a rider on superstition from Bulawayo trials. Two Matabele men killed their grandson by drowning after a witch doctor claimed the child’s top teeth caused ill luck. The author links this to past practices in England and calls for a fuller chronicle of superstition’s harm.
A Washington Star excerpt recalls a Cumberland River headwaters tale where a woman with four children tends a hundred forty acres of wheat and sixty in corn, ten cattle and other stock. She runs the entire operation herself, even with some hired help and a lineband she must also manage.
The verger Sagar of Halifax parish church looms in Dean Pigon stories for tricks and wily grifts. He once lured a bride with a fabled Black Bible ruse until the groom paid the fee. An English Alpine clubman then joins a Whymper lecture night in Westminster.
A fragment recounts a remark by Sir James Linton about connecting explorers and painters. EM. Wimper is introduced to alpinist Whymper in a humorous, improvised style. The anecdote reflects social networks among prominent figures in exploration and art.
A brief anecdote from Macmillan’s notes recounts William Pitt I resisting a noble title. The supposed earldom conversation is deemed inauthentic by historians Lord Stanhope and Lord Rosebery. Pitt allegedly asserts he can create dukes, dismissing the offered rank with a sharp rebuke.
A retired linen draper visits a geography lesson in Europe. Asked the capital of Holland he receives the clever reply Capital H. The ex-draper abandons further questions, leaving the boy’s witticism to echo through the room.
A New York Journal item notes a domestic quip about throwing biscuits at cats in the Bronx borough, paired with a factual line on U.S. coffee consumption totaling about 450 million pounds annually and imports around 90 million dollars.
An old Cape Wartime tale illustrates nursing wisdom. A kindly nurse gently corrects a patient by washing his face, noting unnecessary attentions exhaust the wounded. The man remarks a ninth lady has washed him that morning, highlighting practical care over vanity.
The New York Tribune quotes a farm wife who delights in poultry and swine breeding as part of her business. She calls it a happy and profitable combination, noting the pride of owning fine sows, thrifty pigs, good stock, and marketable hogs, and compares caring for young pigs to caring for chicks.
A college professor prefers gotten for past participle but telegraph error yields Have gotten tickets, tonight. His wife hosts eight guests at a rendezvous, delight turning to explanation as he abandons his usual usage.
A Mexican road runner with two short legs can outrun a horse or hound and even an electric carriage, while giving them a handicap. He feeds while fleeing, eating snakes as his principal diet. When preparing for a long journey he coils a tattler inside his neck and speeds across the desert.
A reader describes a home remedy for forehead wrinkles using a night compress of new linen soaked in equal parts alcohol and white of egg. The method is applied overnight and repeated until wrinkles fade.
A discouraged editor asks a riddle about a paper taken for years without paying and later refusing delivery. The question cites Bob Ingersoll’s claim that there is no hell and ponders what happens to the non payer who rejects the paper.
The porgy, common and beautiful when seen in good light, is highly sensitive. In captivity it fears easily, reacting to visitors or touching of the tank. It may rush around until exhausted, sometimes leaping to hit the wire, becoming seemingly paralyzed, lying on its back for an hour before possibly recovering and swimming normally again.
The New York Sun notes Spain’s illiteracy visible in Barcelona where writing booths line the Rambla. Watchmen with pike and lantern patrol near electric street lights while scribes offer poetry, love letters, job applications, and registry services to passersby and servants.
A marble inscription in St. Pauls churchyard Alexandria Virginia marks a nameless female stranger. In May 1816 a man and a beautiful girl with a valet arrived by an English ship, avoided contact, and five months later the girl died. The husband funded the monument then vanished. The tale inspired several novels.
A sleepy man named Meekton, while waking, admits to nodding agreement with his wife Henrietta. She accuses him of behaving oddly and reading into his sudden assent after minutes of silence. He confesses he had dozed and cannot recall the exact moment that provoked his response, leaving the matter unresolved in Washington Star style.
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