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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1893
Page
7
A lighthearted domestic vignette recalls a wedding gift check mislaid, a groom chasing an umbrella, and a piano needing repair. In a roadside accident two ladies fall from a shying horse, aided to a lodge by a passing farmer, while the lodge-keeper’s wife jokes about postponed chores.
A string of jokes and quips unfolds in a lighthearted dialogue. A married couple contrasts happiness and perception while a comedian laments a broken humerus. A series of brief exchanges covers politics, food prices, music, commuting manners, and a beggar with a surprising claim about wives.
The record notes railcars supplied by religious groups carrying Bibles in racks that are often robbed. It cites 70,009,000 Emurore residents wearing sa bots wooden shoes, mainly basswood with willow preferred, and lists European iron works with massive hammers: Terni Italy fifty tons 1873, Alexandrovski Russia 1574, Creusot France eighty tons 1877, Cockrill Belgium 100 tons 1886, Kruppgan Germany 150 tons 1885.
A compilation of quirky facts and anecdotes including funeral customs of medieval origin, early peanut imports in 1794, a New York reform remark about diet, a Dijon lightning incident killing about a thousand fish, Sandersville Georgia electrified well myths, Barnett Grimsley's brain growth after a head injury, and Henry A Hazen on balloon construction comparing American and French balloon leakage.
Deer roam Piscataquis county Maine as harvesters work. A Liver pool firm finishes a huge wire rope over twenty five tons and four and a half miles long. A relief map of US oil districts, seven feet by fifty inches, shows oil wells. Liverpool penny gas meters now charge 8 pence per unit in Leeds. gas of twenty five cubic feet per penny. A medical journal says coffee is brain food boosting reasoning for a time while opium and alcohol impair judgment.
A future August 1896 solar eclipse will be visible in Lapland Nova Zembia Siberia and Japan with totality of about two minutes forty five seconds. A petrified tree near Bandler Texas was found fifty feet deep hollow filled with honey and well preserved honey tasting sweet and pure. Observations of red and black ants show blacks gaining nests and reds routed in a battle. The sandpaper tree Dillenia scabrella grows in Juiana and the East Indies and is noted for rough leaf fibers used as sandpaper.
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