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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1873
Page
6
A dense string of misread snippets covers miscellaneous curiosities and local gossip. Vignettes include a bearded lady bewitching crowds, weather mentions, jokes about a cousin in law and an absurd rananken of small-town life. The piece blends humor, oddities, and stray references to people and places.
Gov the Little Lolks recounts the giraffe a curios animal native to Africa. From Caesar to Lorenzo de Medici and England in 1827 the animal has fascinated mankind. In the Zoo it stands fifteen to sixteen feet tall and moves with surprising speed and grace. Its long tongue daunts leaves and works like an elephant trunk while the creature remains peaceful and silent in suffering.
The article explains the origins of state names, noting Maine from the French province named for Henrietta Maria, New Hampshire as Laconia, Vermont from the Green Mountains, and Massachusetts Rhode Island etc valued for royal or geographic associations. It cites origins for New York New Jersey Pennsylvania Delaware Maryland Virginia the Carolinas Georgia Florida Alabama Louisiana and Mississippi with brief etymologies.
A gruff jack tar aboard the quay offers J a practical lesson on managing anger. He urges avoiding passion if possible, or at least releasing it with a loud roar and fleeing. He quips that passion has no legs and cannot hold a man who runs.
A five year old boy strikes his playmate and immediately apologizes. The girl ceases crying as she accepts the remark and replies that if he is truly sorry, it does not hurt her. The vignette ends with the moral that remorse can comfort the hurt.
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