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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1898
Page
11
A Paris Letter recounts failed French attempts by two Americans to contact a master via a concierge in a Paris residence. The narrator’s phrasebook misleads, provoking a long exchange as he struggles to understand the response and later learns a concierge misled another visitor.
Report from Scutari across the Bosporus notes clever dogs that appear only when the Orient Express from Paris to Constantinople is due. They dash into carriages, search under seats for scraps, and depart after feeding. They ignore local trains, showing precise timetable knowledge and a distinction between Friday to Monday.
Retold anecdote from Bishop Short of St Asaph who asked candidates an odd riddle about legs. He posed which has more legs a vat or no cat. A candidate answered cat, but the bishop corrected that a cat has four legs and no cat has five, prompting a titter among onlookers.
The New York Ledger notes Rhine country innkeepers provide guests a folded carte about 16 by 4 inches. It shows the hotel and keeper on the outside and unfolds to reveal towns monuments and a map of main routes, serving as both bill and visitor guide.
The article states Amoy China consumes about ten million dollars worth of paper annually, mostly locally produced, noting Chinese prefer native paper. It adds that one pound of sheep wool can yield one yard of cloth.
Cassier’s Magazine argues that bulkheads on liners and battleships offer little safety without reliable doors. It notes hundreds of watertight doors and valves, requiring about 110 to 130 crew to operate under collision alarms, and urges safer, better operated doors to prevent maritime disasters.
In the Capitol’s Statuary Hall a youth trapped his father on a central block by a sound from a distant doorway. The father, puzzled as daylight vanished, found the trickster disappeared and later family explained the illusion amid the hall’s famous acoustics.
The St James Gazette reports a legendary family talisman kept since the late fifteenth century. A sealed packet supposedly contains a ring with a black stone dropped by a toad on the coverlet of a princess, passed from ruler to heir before dissolution. Schröder the librarian recalls seeing the packet handed to the monarch and recounts a memorandum by Frederick I.
Clara questions Mrs. Young Ling’s boasting about her family and Gladys notes the claim of ancestors as good people. Clara recalls reading about a harsh lineage including one who came with William the Conqueror and comments on that crowd as a hard lot.
A bill clerk at a large wholesale house cites odd customer orders. A rural retailer asks for 600 pounds of sugar urgently, then reveals sugar is already in the back room, highlighting confusing mail orders from countryside shops.
A health note claims a cupful of hot water or a hot bath can rapidly ease violent disease symptoms and avert much suffering. It urges people to rely on heat therapy as a readily available form of relief and medicine.
General Wheeler recalls his wartime service and escape from danger while leading cavalry for the Confederacy. After Davis ordered disbanding troops, Wheeler and others were captured by Union forces and imprisoned in the north. He recounts the exchange with Alexander Stephens about Davis and their grim fate during their march to prison.
A guide on patient care stresses keeping calm in the sickroom, avoiding whispered conversations and chatter, and presenting nourishment and medicine cheerfully. It advises prompt, quiet attention to needs, pleasant follow ups, and attractive presentation to aid recovery.
Ella E Gibson of Barre Massachusetts summarizes Old Abe the live eagle carried with the Eighth Wisconsin during the Civil War. Taken from Wisconsin to Eau Claire, then given to Captain Perkins, the bird fought with the regiment and survived battles. In 1864 he returned home, died March 28 1881 at age 20, later kept as a war relic in Madison and shown at fairs and the Philadelphia centennial exposition of 1876.
An inscription on a peasant’s wall recalls Napoleon the Great during exile on Elba. In MDCCCXIV he briefly took a plowshare from Giaconi and tried to plow, but the oxen refused and the furrow was spoiled. The note honors the moment and the rebel team.
An Austrian newspaper quote records a German professor joking that without water we could not learn to swim, warning how many people would drown without it. The remark appears in Vienna's Remdenblatt and reflects a playful meditation on necessity and danger.
The Louisville Courier Journal notes that brakemen face high injury rates, with 158 injured and 2 killed over three years on a leading railroad entering Louisville. It cites injuries by year of service, discusses automatic drawbars and safety changes, and predicts reduced risk as equipment standardizes and cars gain equal drawbar heights.
The Hoosier poet James Whitcomb Riley quips about travel baggage. He says he travels with a grip to avoid losing his trunk and fears a railway accident leaving a valise with an arm as identifying debris.
The Chicago Times-Herald editorializes on Lord Byron's marriage as insincere and theatrical noting two proposals to different women only one accepted and Byron’s mistreatment of his wife. It cites public reaction to his poetry and the then fashionable ballads sung by young women and mentions Miss Jane Clermont as his confidante.
The article explains metal fatigue from repeated expansion and compression breaking a material’s structure. It notes recovery if molecular movement ceases before breaking, comparing metal fatigue to human fatigue and recommending resting tools to regain sharpness. It cites the New York Ledger idea of duplicating tool sets to rest one while the other is used.
Blackwood's Magazine traces Gordons origins to Gourdon in Lot France, a hill town linked to legend of hidden gold from Clovis era. The piece notes Aquitaine’s frontier history shaping a hardy race and mentions a 8th century duke of Gourdon as France’s constable, tying to Bertram de Gourdon at the Chalus event.
Dialogue captures island speech about distance and directions. A speaker explains the road simply goes wherever the traveler wants, not toward specified places like Cherry Garden Hope Garden Constant Spring or Mona, and adds it is not far.
In a piece discussing The Man on the March a dog restraint theme is described. A half bred retriever pulls a girl from a river sparking praise and what the author terms rescue on the brain. The author argues overpraise leads to overzealous rescues by the dog and even targets for every swimmer, cow, duck, and angler.
A short dialogue from Gaulois notes a child Lily asking for a doll and a father replying shops are closed. He lifts her and asks for a kiss, she cheekily retorts lips are not open today by and by.
A historical natural science note explores ants as clever builders, farmers, and labor systems. It details caste roles, development from egg to adult, queen longevity, eye structure, weight-carrying feats, nest architecture, republic-like colonies, slave labor behavior, nest recognition, and inter-colony interactions with colorful examples drawn from Sir John Lubbock and others.
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