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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1894
Page
5
A condensed collection of light humor and quips from a social gathering. The snippets touch on manners, flirtations, politics, mischief, and daily life, with punchlines about a would-be president, a thief with a safe, and a country inn land lord’s hearty observations.
An OCR fragment mentions Hall’s Catarrh Core taken internally with price 750 and references various fictional products and slogans about estate agents, Coco’s Dough Belsam as old and best, a claim it breaks a cell quickly, references to Sunday and Monday mail days, Karl’s Clover Root Tea as a blood purifier, Joe Complerton cures constipation, and a mistaken farmer’s care note. The text is garbled with ads and product lines.
Knowledge brings comfort and improvement and tends to personal enjoyment when rightly used. Many who live better and enjoy life more with less expense attest to the value of the world's best products. The remedy uses pure liquid laxative figs presenting in a table form with refreshing properties and a pleasant taste.
In April 1776 Jemima Boone Elizabeth Callaway and Betsey Callaway row beyond the stockade and are seized by Indians. After a grueling two day pursuit by Boone Callaway and lovers they are rescued. Betsey marries her rescuer on the seventh day of August 1776 while Fanny Callaway and Jemima Boone wed a year later.
A debate among Izaak Walton enthusiasts questions whether salmon bite flies out of hunger or curiosity. The London Saturday Review rejects the idea that a fish bites in anger after a prick, arguing the trout's appetite drives feeding. The piece notes fish often take artificial flies, sometimes not feeling enough pain to deter future bites.
A Prussian has invented water proof paper. To rule one's anger is well to prevent it is still better. Heaven finds a new joy every time a sinner repents. A life of crime is often the result of debt. It is foolishness to try to reason about what we cannot know. Nothing makes us richer that does not make us more thankful. The day becomes longer when a lazy man looks at the clock. To give heartfelt praise to noble actions is to praise ourselves. It is the greatest praise to be praised by a deserving person. Help somebody worse off and you will be better off than you thought. A beautiful woman pleases the eye while a good woman pleases the heart. Hearts is on
Portraits of wealth and culture surface in a stream of brief notes. Lulu B. George, a New York wallpaper designer, sold 300000 rolls of a Chinese pattern. Napoleon’s shirts fetched 150 francs at auction. Jules Simon’s cataract operation showed fortitude. Rothschild assets quoted at 2 billion dollars, with Nathaniel Rothschild as head. Olaus Dahl joins University of Chicago after leading Yale Scandinavian studies. The Sheridans’ Washington residence hosts Phil jr at school and two daughters at Edenhall near Philadelphia. Samuel Arnold, once linked to Lincoln’s abduction, now runs a Baltimore meat stall. Louisiana plans a statue for Thomy Lafou, with a 600000 fortune to charity. Lowell sent an Atlantic Monthly piece under a false name, then with his own byline accepted elsewhere.
A published statement shows glassmaker concessions at 123000, souvenir spoons 35000, popcorn privilege 103000. Descriptions include rushlight origins, biblical reference to Daniel, petrified fir wood with crystalline pitch, and a soldier’s remark about a hospital stay in Ireland.
Holbein at sixteen painted altar pieces in Basle. Hogarth began as an engraver of coats of arms before art. Durer, son of a goldsmith, apprenticed to a draughtsman. Fra Bartolomeo befriended Raphael and likely finished works sketched by him. Orcagna's Last Judgment in Pisa’s Campo Santo was famed as world’s greatest. Tintoretto, born Jacobo Robusti, earned his nickname from being son of a dyer.
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