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Newspaper
Lawrence Gazette
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1884
Page
7
A humorous exchange unfolds as a speaker misreads a seat question. The woman answers with shy wit, correcting that the seat is the issue, not herself, in a light, period tone from Drake's Traveler's Magazine.
Zebulon Dornblazer the eccentric bachelor runs a household with widow Mrs Pryor and a young niece. He writes two valentines one to each woman and schemes to wed the niece. At dinner he binds the wrong pairing and must improvise a cure as a mix up spoils his plan.
In Springfield Massachusetts the remark from Mr Walton about Zeb ulon and his dinner reveals friends believed he would marry her someday. The event was a social success though it stirred gnashing about future matches.
Based on Daubree's analysis in Popular Science Monthly, earthquakes are not random. Shocks align with preformed fault lines and mountain chains, concentrating in arcs of 300 to 1500 km. Regions with stabilized strata remain quiet, while Alpine and Italian areas show recent relief and deformation. Continuous deep crustal pressures drive ongoing, nonuniform geologic activity worldwide.
The Patent office reports rich with items and a novel conductor on electric railways. He will punch tickets via electric current, subdue troublesome passengers, and never drink or strike. He will have an electric shirt light, require no wages, no food, no vacation, and cannot be killed or bribed. Trial on the lightning express awaited, railway not yet built.
A Yonkers Gazette quip about a lane sign proves stationary. In a separate note, C T Brownell of Binghampton traded a residence for a 210 acre farm near Grafton NH once owned by a cautious Englishman. The buyer will start exploring in spring the mica bed beneath thirty acres on the property.
The Japanese premier Prince King addressed General Grant in Japan, complimenting him in English and remarking that he was born to command. He stated to the general, Sire, brave General.
A narrative of seeking a cure in a city office reveals pressure sales, dubious examinations, and a tempting life membership. The patient rejects the cheap lure, later seeks proper medical care, and recovers. The piece condemns quackery and urges caution against impostors exploiting credulity.
The piece outlines Native American dueling practices across tribes, noting many require both combatants to perish, with a rifle vs unarmed clash and ritual fatal wounds. It cites 1833 Choctaw chief Carpenter and a white man Price at Pine Creek Agency Arkansas, where insult led Carpenter to declare blood owed.
A New Jersey Tribune tale describes a Chinaman at the One Hundred Twenty Ninth Street Station on Third Avenue in New York. After a gate injury, the man responds to a brakeman with comic fury, then escapes by boarding a departing train. The tale ends with the man claiming his wife taught him to fight.
Ex Assistant Secretary of the Interior, Mr Bell, recounts conversations with Congress members pressing for political jobs. He describes promises given to Brown and then swapped for another candidate, illustrating lobbying pressure and duplicity in patronage. The dialogue shows how lawmakers solicit favors and later retract commitments to appease supporters.
Providence Rhode Island proposes a tunnel project to ease city travel from College to Prospect Hills. The tunnel would be 32 feet wide 17 feet high and 2000 feet long costing $600000. Construction would start early next spring and take about 18 months to complete.
In an American Register piece, Warner Miller of New York is denounced as a new boss in disguise. The article argues the Republican machine remains dominant, with Miller’s reform image masking ambitions to control New York politics and influence the national convention. It calls for an end to boss rule and party domination.
Boston Journal reports Prof. Wood of the Lowell Institute discusses spider life noting the female is larger and fiercer, the male at risk while courting, three types of silk threads, and a scientist spinning 3480 yards from one spider. Silk can be glossier than that of silkworms.
John Murphy of the Syracuse area claims he has never ridden in any vehicle except a wagon. Two years ago his wife persuaded him to try a train to a neighboring village, but before the trip started he bolted from the car and refused to ride.
A Bolton Connecticut family welcomed four children with multiple digits. The first child has twelve toes ten fingers and two thumbs. The second born has two extra fingers the third three extra fingers and an extra toe while the fourth has two extra fingers that have since been amputated. A separate note reports a Baku Russia petroleum well expected to exceed famous gushers, yielding between seven and eight thousand barrels daily.
An unclear OCR fragment notes Mr Dialogue in Camden New Jersey involved in a discussion or claim over the presidency of the Camden City Council. The item hints at a leadership dispute or notable nomination within the council. Further readable details are unavailable in the fragment.
In a New Orleans lottery dispute, Attorney General Brewster's conduct is condemned as an assault on law and judicial independence. The piece argues Republican leadership shows contempt for courts, fears central power, and endangers citizen rights and federal balance, urging restoration of a party that respects law.
Edward Bentley aged eleven years committed death by his own action at the residence of C Dalton near Corydon Indiana recently shooting himself through the head It is stated Dalton refused the privilege of eating at the first table and for this reason he shot himself Also notes a Ladies Book Club at North Andover Center with no male members and a one dollar fine for lending books to outsiders from the Boston Herald
Seventy six Sing Sing convicts have voluntarily entered the night school taught by one of their own number, according to the New York Sun report. The program aims to provide education to inmates and promote reform within the prison.
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