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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1889
Page
1
Colonel Ward Lamon, Lincoln’s law partner, pursued the Choctaw Nation case on speculation and won a 9 500 000 judgment, earning a 250 000 fee. The piece notes that law can be lucrative. It also cites a decline in heavy English dining, gout, and indigestion attributed to modern hygienists, cooking schools, and education.
A hired man shocked to discover experiments show a horse can live eleven days and a cow nine without food while a hog survives twenty nine days. The Detroit Free Press calculator claims feeding every two weeks suffices for the hog.
The article notes that in 1788 the first fleet carried limited livestock including a bull four cows a calf one stallion three mares and three colts with some sheep pigs and goats. By 1885, ninety seven years later, estimates reach 9 million horned cattle 1.5 million horses 80 million sheep and 1 million swine signaling major expansion in pastoral industry and settler wealth.
The Umbria uses seventy two furnaces demanding 850 tons of coal daily at a voyage cost of 20000 dollars. One hundred four stokers work the furnaces with four to one ratio. each spends three minutes per furnace then cools at air-pipes. Four hours of scorching work followed by eight hours of sleep define the cycle.
Oscar Wilde faced pressure to name his infant son at a christening. The clergyman declared John as the boy’s name. Wilde, moved by danger to his child, whispered Cyril and collapsed, Thoby saved, John not his name.
The Wry-Goods Chronicle quotes a world traveled merchant with vast wealth and years of experience. He says he has traded with most civilized races and found only two or three men innately dishonest, a trait that would persist in any vocation of life.
Springfield tale of Solomon Griggs of Griggs Makem Co and Rachel Hart the seamstress unfolds from market heat to love. A calico frock triggers a chaste romance after poverty tests pride, ending with Rachel accepting Solomon as he faces ruin.
In exile the speaker recalls fireside scenes and family moments with a mother, father, children, and a lamp glow. The poem expresses longing for home as the speaker’s heart aches while distant from familiar chairs, faces, prayers, and quiet domestic peace.
A sprawling list traces inventions from 1839 envelopes to 1846 sewing machines and 1776 Union flag. includes notes on Mohammed, Stevenson, and other early milestones. The piece shifts to a humorous piece titled AMUSING COURTSHIP and then to a memorial biographical description of Andrew Johnson’s grave, detailing monuments and inscriptions in Greenville Tennessee.
An aging MeVicker, estranged from his son Horace over Booth disputes, meets Horace’s child on a train. The girl’s innocent greeting persuades the father to send a note to Horace, reuniting the old feud’s rift. The tale ends with a joke about fondness for talking.
A clipped reading shows a quirky, garbled barter of desserts with nonsensical phrases like Mincy pieapplep and craspberry roll. The exchange hints at a playful, imperfect menu recited by a new girl with a coy, avenging smile in a dated setting.
A Paris Times correspondent relays observations from Cambodia. The writer contrasts Cambodians with Annamites, notes the king's absolute rule with multiple kings and slaves, and describes Phnom Penh and its sparse stone buildings, bamboo floors, thatched roofs, and simple furniture. Half the population in Cochin China and Cambodia being Chinese is mentioned.
A Cambridge visitor tours the Adirondacks with a famed local guide. The guide claims the guest is James Russell Lowell, and the guest denies knowing him. The guide mocks the guest as an unwise ignoramus for not using the current to advance, while the exchange highlights utilitarian judgment.
The fleet of 125 steamships operating between the United States and Europe handles 509,090 passengers yearly and employs 1 750 men. They cost 111 million dollars, burn about 1 million dollars in coal monthly, and earn 22.00 hours for passage money excluding freight.
The poem laments losing happiness and seeks guidance to return to joy. It urges turning away from selfish desire toward duty and righteous living, asserting true happiness lies on that path. It presents a moral call to choose right over pleasure and stay on the correct road.
A collage of humorous quips and jokes from late 19th century columns. Observations on judges, social manners, mining, churchgoing, and bachelors. Short witticisms about streetcars, poems, and domestic life appear with light satire and era flavor.
The Indianapolis Journal surveys aging lawmakers. It lists senators Morrill Edmunds Payne Dawes Hamp ton Evarts Sawyer Conger Wilson Brown Pugh Saulsbury and others with ages ranging from sixty two to seventy six. In the House Judge Kelly leads at seventy two with Eldridge Plumb Waite Curtin Reagan Singleton Barbour Lindsley O Neill Wadsworth Geddes also noted as older members. The piece comments the Senate appears more aged in action than the House.
The Pall Mall Gazette notes a Manchester man’s self harm motive tied to a birthday neglect. The piece reflects on Hamletian justifications and modern felo-de-se, citing a note about taking poison if given a penny cigar and longing for life on “the other side.”
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