Doddridge’s courtroom tale of a horse thief and a rogue juror
A Virginia lawyer Doddridge once defended a man wrongfully accused of horse theft. The case hinged on a state's evidence from an accomplice. Doddridge paused to recount a churchyard anecdote about a cautious elder lawyer, provoking laughter and a jurors verdict of not guilty for his client.
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Doddridge
Virginia
West Virginia
Wellsburg
Ohio River
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Congress
Washington
New York Sun
Nestor
Trick of Street Car Spotter Uses Peanuts for Memory
A street car spotter used a peanut counting method to track passengers. He ate one peanut per boarding passenger and judged the crowd by the remaining nuts, a clever but eventually exposed trick. The Globe-Democrat notes only memory can stay undetected.
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Globe-Democrat
Meat and Strength Defied Meat Eating as Strength Claim
A vegetarian faith argues that meat is unnecessary for strength and cites examples like the strongest animals being vegetarian. It notes lions’ ferocity, elephants facing multiple lions, and speedy endurance animals such as horses and antelopes as vegetarian, with dog trainers and hunters often feeding vegetarian diets to trained animals.
The Meanest Man Birthday Joke
A husband sends his wife to her mother for a birthday visit with exact fare for her trip. She objects that she will have no money to spend there. He retorts that she will have her birthday to spend, revealing his stingy humor.
Rare snake in the eye operation saves New York horse
Fred Graf of Sheepshead Bay kept a gentle delivery horse until a changing eye caused visible film and nervousness. Veterinary surgeon William Shepard performed a delicate procedure to remove a three and a half inch snake from the eye, the first time he has carried out this operation for filaria oculi.
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Fred Graf
Sheepshead Bay
N. Y
Graf
William Shepard
Shepard
India
Dr. Gray
Dick Veterinary College
Edinburgh
Scotland
Gray
Sun
Riddle Answer: A Tooth
A small boy answers that a half is a tooth when dividing something into two parts. The joke plays on the homophone of a third or fourth versus a tooth as a play on words in a classroom exchange.
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Prowers County
Tiny Dante volume shown at Paris Exhibition
A complete translation of the Divine Comedy was exhibited in Paris, measuring less than half an inch square. The tiny volume contained 14,328 verses spread over 500 pages.
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Paris
Hasheesh Drug Taints Mind and Body, Writers Warn
Reports to British Parliament from Egypt, Greece and Turkey link long term hasheesh use to digestive and circulatory disruption. Observers note mania, violence, and idiocy with prolonged use, citing Cairo and Bengal lunatic asylums. All cited nations ban import, cultivation, or sale.
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Lord Rosebery
Britain
Egypt
Greece
Turkey
Cairo
Bengal
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