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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1888
Page
5
New York correspondence notes growing interest in hand-ball, an Irish origin sport now catching on across America. It requires agility, wind, and endurance, uses indoor courts with side walls, and offers varied formats from two to eight players.
The piece compares livestock and population in 1885 across the United States, Australia, Argentina, and Uruguay. It notes high sheep and cattle totals, per person stock ratios, large wire fence investment, and common prices for cattle, horses, sheep, and mares. It also cites a Harper's Magazine excerpt critiquing Charley, with a Boston Transcript remark.
A collage of humorous snippets from Texas Siftings Summerville Journal Detroit Free Press and Omaha Herald. The jokes touch on language, sea salt puns, waiters and waitresses, social manners and cultural quips. Notable lines include a pun on the word loo a waiter’s tip joke and garden variety wordplay.
The Boston Advertiser recounts a courtly anecdote about King Humbert telling a curiously fertile hunting tale and his knack for swaying courtiers with entertaining boasts. It notes his habit of coveting courtiers’ trinkets and his remarks on monarchy versus republic in a witty exchange with an ambassador.
A London City Temple account recalls Dr Parker’s dramatic sermon on the Scarlet Woman of Babylon. He announced the congregation would sing a hymn at the end, then, growing exhausted, gradually sank back as he delivered the final “has fallen” refrain, avoiding rising to lead the hymn.
A new gravestone in a London cemetery bears an epitaph for a dentist. The inscription reads with dry humor that “J- is filling his last cavity,” praising precision and gravity in a timeless, wry salute.
A merchant renowned for honesty attracts substantial custom, building steady patronage through straightforward dealings and reliable service.
The Moravians spread from Germany to England Switzerland and America. They organize two houses for single men and for unmarried women or widows. Marriages require church elders consent and may involve bridegroom selection. They value simple weddings mourn with no crape and call graves Gods acre. Education remains strong for all, and Neudieden dorf is fondly remembered.
The Burmese religion prescribes ten prohibitions. Do not kill any animal. do not steal. do not commit adultery. speak truthfully. avoid intoxication and opium. refrain from harsh or indecent language. avoid idle talk. do not covet your neighbor's goods. do not envy or wish harm on others. do not follow other gods. Those who abstain will grow in virtue and seek to behold God.
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