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Newspaper
Lawrence Gazette
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1884
Page
7
A poem reflects on the daily joy a wife’s smile brings to home life. The speaker, praising the morning farewells and evening welcomes, credits the open door smile with brightening the day, lifting spirits, and sustaining effort. Citing E Barr in the New York Ledger for attribution.
A house in Colonel Rossiter’s estate is broken into by a cap-wearing intruder who skulks through locked rooms, eyes portraits, steals valuables, and confronts a sleeping family. A night of fright ends with a gunshot and a missing pocketbook while the servant spots a boyish cap as a clue. The事件 concludes with a conclusive convulsive chill for the owner and a died mystery unresolved.
Georgia shows 58 930 births in 1880 with 5 552 deaths under one year, 53 378 infants under one year living, equal white and colored birth rates at 34 per 1000, and a higher infant mortality among blacks. Whites trend male predominance at birth, while blacks favor females until later ages. The death rate is higher for males and blacks across ages. Atlanta Constitution.
A writer in a juvenile magazine collects playful dictionary definitions from small children. Items include Dust-Mud with the juice squeezed out Fan- a tool to brush warm off Ice-Water that stayed out in the cold and slept Monkey- a very small boy with a tail Pig- hogs little boy Salt- what makes potatoes taste bad when you skip it Snoring- letting off sleep Wakefulness- eyes constantly coming unbuttoned.
A Norwich surgeon was visited recently by a man claiming to be possessed by a devil and demanding immediate exorcism. The frightened patient allegedly fled after the surgeon prepared his tools, and the man reportedly ran off toward the police, with no further details available.
A congressionally themed piece argues for cautious federal economy without crippling government. It warns against extreme cuts amid Democratic reform plans, urges wise appraisal of department estimates, and stresses accountability, equity, and avoidance of partisan excess during a pivotal election year. It notes Republican rhetoric and the Frye call of Murder Murder echoing nationwide.
A historical column notes Republicans lose faith in seizing a tariff issue as predictions from St. Louis shift. It argues the Democratic party is united on economical expenditures and protection, countering Republican calls for no tariff reform. The piece cites Randall’s failed Speakership due to perceived Republican leanings.
The St Louis Republican argues there is no need to fear the shift to a Democratic House and likely Senate. It asserts that Southern lawmakers aided national interests in prior years and that the change reflects voters replacing the Republican majority. It predicts a stronger navy, better foreign policy, and a productive tariff once Democrats prevail.
A Boston Globe opinion argues that current sectional criticisms of Southern Congressmen are unfounded and pointless. It says differences between regions are shrinking as manufacturing and financial interests align, making sectional chairmanship counts irrelevant to national policy or the South’s progress.
The Manhattan presents Pompeii through Strabo and a modern lens, tracing the forum, lava shelf, and city layout. It notes the eruption’s sequence from pumice to ash to lava, Ercolano's uncovering, and Pompeii’s built legacy as a civil center, a classical bijou preserved for nineteenth century study.
Rustic ornaments offer attractive lawn and garden enhancements at minimal cost. Gather crooked roots and gnarled branches from woods and swamps during winter to craft benches chairs hanging baskets and flower boxes. With basic skill one can build these pieces and even treat with petroleum for a durable dark finish. W Y World.
Few cities of six thousand inhabitants have ever enjoyed the excitement of a deer hunt through their principal streets, but such a spectacle recently enlivened Tacoma, the western terminus of the Northern Pacific Railroad.
A collage of brief notices highlights Ike Murphy the wealthy negro jockey said to be worth sixty thousand dollars, Barnum’s vast will spanning seven hundred pages, Miss Fannie Everett the oldest U.S. postmistress at eighty-two with twenty-two years stamp-licking, and aging figures like Isaiah Rynders facing poverty. Other items note Judge White fining himself for tardiness, Jacob Milliken turning a century with voting memories, Senator Beck’s night-time problem solving, Julia Jackson predicted to become a European society queen, Mrs. Merkleham in destitution aided by Potter, and Hamilton Disston carrying heavy life insurance across several companies.
A collage of light humor and wry wordplay from early 20th century papers. Jests touch on church organ fires and business signs, with quips about corsets, education, and political votes. One vignette describes a toothache gag aboard a train.
In Indian churches a wooden framed punkah with a white frill hangs along the nave and is swung by native labor. Relays of punkah coolies keep the fans moving day and night for sixpence a day. The moving white clouds of cotton create a soporific, shifting audience for the preacher.
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