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Newspaper
Lawrence Gazette
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1883
Page
7
A verse fragment contrasts two beloved figures with dark and fair hair, expressing inability to choose between them. The speaker longs for closeness and the joy of hearing their silvery voices, cherishing companionship with both.
A thirty year tale follows a British born officer who spends lavishly in India and Austria, earning baronial status while draining family estates. His father confronts him in Venice with a debt crisis and a signed restraint, but the prodigal continues reckless spending, creating a saga of duels, engagements, and a Hungarian romance that challenges his disinheritance.
A mature Hungarian baron in exile lives on a modest £400 yearly from an English wife. His past acts, duels, and sacrifice haunt him as he raises three daughters in poverty yet maintains a lavish local life. An English officer’s love tragedy mirrors the baron’s own choices and regrets.
The Philadelphia Press describes a capybara named Porgy living with two kittens in a deer-house pen. The capybara, Hydrochoerus capybara, is the largest rodent and resembles a muskrat. The kittens snuggle to him in cold weather, ride his back when he plays, and seek him for warmth, while the wallaby in the adjacent cage remains unfriendly.
A skipper Abou Mughammed reports a colossal serpent seen in a creek after a gale. It swims the creek and returns each night, guiding crew to ivory tusks filling the ship over twenty days. Another mariner, Djafar, recalls a serpent swallowing a crocodile near Malabar. The governor deploys 3,000 men to capture the monster, said to be sixty feet long and weighing thousands of pounds.
In a James Dawnvale saloon at 823 Callowhill Street a canary singing contest drew silent spectators as three entries faced a ten minute exposure to gas light. Music won with a 594 second performance before a sneeze and a later muted effort by Flute. Organizers plan larger matches, noting city interest in London style competitions.
Telephones at the central office and nearby stations reported nonstop music all night from eight o'clock, with melodies heard from Elgin to the stockyards line. Calls cited tunes like Home Sweet Home Suwanee River and Yandle Doodle as the source, but no one could identify the musician or origin.
An eerie concert of classical tunes echoed through Chicago telephone lines triggering inquiries from police stations and city offices. Officials blamed atmospheric conditions affecting induction and conductivity while central switchboards carried the sounds across hundreds of wires, with the fire alarm office notably audible.
Sailors’ rations follow tight official rules with weekly menus and optional commutation. A Sunday spread includes biscuit rice sugar tea or coffee butter and tomatoes while weekly rations rotate through pork beef beans pickles molasses vinegar and evaporated fruit with occasional salt pork and beans favored. Some sailors commute rations for a cash daily value and form a mess fund. port visitors may buy fruits and luxuries. Foreign navies offer leaner fare and prohibit commutation.
Experts in the United States mint investigated a curious counterfeit case in which a so called daddy dollar appeared genuine in weight and ring but looked nickel colored. Analysis by Dr. Albrechts revealed nickel and mercury in the amalgam coating a genuine silver dollar plated with nickel. The mint labeled the tampering a wild freak by a crank, noting nickel coating silver is irrational and done for profit.
A Philadelphia Times letter recounts Mrs. Linn guiding her servant to the White House during a dinner with President, then rushing home to find her husband Dr. Linn injured as bedclothes caught fire. Her quick action, aided by Mr. Webster, saved his life, described as a remarkable presentiment.
An American woman Miss Gray travels with a Scottish party in Switzerland. While boarding a diligence a Scotchman questions where a Roman scarf came from, learning it was bought in New York after a humorous miscue. The scene amuses travelers as identity and origin blur.
A Scottish traveler and companions tease Miss Gray about being American. She counters with a story about a landed English father and his cherry tree hatchet. The group realizes the tale proves her American identity through a clever twist ending referencing George Washington.
Two adventurers nicknamed the smartest boys in America arrived by cattle train, recalls of their wild journey from San Francisco toward New York. They describe riding freights, swapping conductor checks, and watering cattle to reach Chicago and beyond, with several companions dropping off along the way. Additional local commentary and a rambling note on a will case and a Naval Academy plan follow.
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