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Newspaper
Lawrence Weekly Journal
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1887
Page
3
A young mountaineer recalls the sheer heights and treacherous gorges as a plateau looms above Eagle's Court. A grizzly encounter on a ascent tests calm nerves while a storm gathers and distant peaks glow under thinning sun.
The article compiles diverse notes including legal fees in a Canadian debt case, a four hundred year old Versailles orange tree planted by a queen consort, cross-denominational ministerial cooperation in Glasgow, Madiera pork production, and a string of historical tidbits. It covers royal recognitions, charity grants, British social observations, Zion Austro-Hungarian curiosities, Cuba eating customs, Cuban hospitality, and an Austrian imperial toy soldiers set. It also notes scientific claims about gases as insulators, a peculiar English cook advertisement reply, Bromo Volcano eruption cooking practices, and fire-lighting habits among Indonesia’s Bromo eruption natives.
Uncle Phil Armour recounts a humorous exchange with a Southern canned meats and butterine dealer. The dealer objects to a typewriter letter, praising Armour’s generosity yet noting the expense of printing his letter, as the correspondence fades into a playful anecdote from the Chicago Herald.
A Seattle to Nanaimo traveler reached Victoria and hired an expressman to move her trunk to the Nanaimo wharf. He loaded it and had her pay in advance, then drove around the block and returned to the starting point, revealing a small trick in the voyage logistics.
The St Louis Globe Democrat recounts a San Francisco Chronicle description of a wild girl found near Moose Lake Salmon River Mountains. G N Holbrook of Denver identifies the girl as his missing daughter, thought dead nine years, rescued after a trek through caves by an expedition. An old Nez Perce sorcerer guarded her cave for years, speaking through signs, while Holbrook aided in taming and reuniting with her father. The tale ties to Holbrook family history during the 1870s stock raids and Nez Perce tragedy.
A Minnesota upisman reports in the Ber Journal that his bees produced over 2,000 pounds of honey from acorns last summer. The honey tastes of tannin and is bluish white, described as biwar, with acorns pierced by an insect whose saliva converts starch to honey that drips from trees and leaves.
Albany Ga reports a humorous clash as a cow launches a fierce charge at a gander. The bird tightens its grip with beak between the horns and flaps at the cow. After backing away, the cow gathers courage for another try, but the gander again counters with powerful wing blows, forcing the cow to retreat.
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