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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1893
Page
7
Librarian Steiner notes in a Free Library study that the first Connecticut slaves were Native Pequot captives in 1638, with later arrivals from the West Indies. Early laws blocked the slave trade in 1715, and emancipation began during the revolution leading to gradual abolition by 1845 with under twenty slaves remaining, all above age 64.
A tale told by Congressman Allen recounts Josiah Quincy and a clerical job race. A hopeful applicant seeks a post office vacancy, waits, travels to Potomac Beach, and learns a clerk has drowned. The vacancy is filled by a Massachusetts friend of Quincy, who anticipated the clerk could not swim.
A dry goods merchant chides a clerk who fell asleep and met a serious fall, joking about the clerk’s misfortune while easing the reprimand. The piece then notes under sea mining along the Pacific coast, highlighting Nanaimo British Columbia where coal galleries lie beneath the ocean bed.
A 1853 Austro Hungarian tale recalls the emperor Francis Joseph courting Princess Elizabeth of Bavaria. He arranged a ball, urged her attendance, and declared that a simple dress and rose would crown her queen of the feast. They sealed their betrothal next day in Ischl with the imperial family present.
In a suit where Lincoln appeared for one side, his sharp rebuke of a glib opposing counsel thematizes the speaker’s reckless assertions. He likens the lawyer’s mind to a tiny steamboat that puffed and wheezed on the Sangamon river, halting with every whistle.
A survey of extraordinary coins notes the Annamese silver piece weighing fifteen US dollars, the huge loof gold disk from Annam, and Japan's obang containing about seventeen dollars in gold. It also mentions Scotland’s plague decline due to plentiful owls, and reveals Paris rat trap uses from carcass processing to fur and bone products. Additional curious terms from labor commission slang round out the digest.
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