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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1893
Page
7
A collage of quick dialogue lines and vignettes from a street or social setting. Characters include a guest, barber, frog, tramps, a prisoner’s money, a druggist, and a hostess, with curio remarks about weather, manners, and small conflicts.
A miscellany notes women owning California fruit ranches, a bullet stopped by a silver dollar in Salem, Times border design for York royal wedding, New Hebrew charities crowded relief question, French cycling wedding party Paris to Montmartre, Prince Rupert drop glass curiosities and their fragile endings.
A survey of odd statements notes that insanity is likelier among unmarried people. It cites high land values on Broadway, historic chimney design, and ancient smoke outlets. It mentions Romania’s wine tax, and various levies on servants, doors, and doctors. It describes social dances in Austria and a Brooklyn tale of a citizenless claim. It recalls Willimantic’s early electric light and its lack of doctors and lawyers.
A collage of science curiosities notes lightning visible from 150 miles, Wyoming petroleum abundance, skull size ratios, Washington rain totals, quinine history, useful iron slag, iron copper zinc alloying, timber protection by naphthalene, bees telling time, Paris ocean rise forecast, French engineers estimate Paris by 3000 years, wheat export 1626, tobacco for navy use, a Ansonia man’s waist wager, Somerville undertaker real estate ad, Cape Colony Asian influx policy, Borgund church Norway oldest wooden building, a 77 year old child rescued from a deep well.
Contemporary anecdotes recount James Francis Oswald’s sharp retort after Justice Kay’s remark about manners. Unity Maine’s General James Fowler recalls a boyhood trek to borrow a needle, walking sixteen miles. A Scottish parish elder quips as a liquor tale unfolds with the line flee yersel and Sarah’s amused retort.
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