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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1898
Page
4
A collage of witty asides and short anecdotes recounts soldiers in famine era rations and officers in leisure, with tales of Corks and courage. Figures include Sir Henry Irving, Lord Tennyson, Lord Dufferin, Aspinall, Opie Read, and a printer’s slip about a battle-scarred general. A science note adds when a worker is strongest, revealing that breakfast lifts energy and midday meals peak performance.
C G Freeman describes New Caledonia as a French penal colony where he lived ten years. He notes a tropical climate with hot Jan February, 400 by 40 miles, 5 000 to 6 000 convicts and equal number of ticket of leave workers. He praises humane treatment by French officials and outlines coffee plantation labor, wages of 2 dollars monthly with rice rations, and export advantages to France. He mentions few English residents and no Americans aside from the Consul.
Chicago financier P. D. Armour toured Baron Kissengen's Carlsbad stables with an American friend. A plain-looking custodian presented as the guide impressed with horse pedigrees and knowledge. Armour offered coins as a tip but the man, revealing himself as Baron Wissengen, refused the gratuity and thanked him for the compliment.
Kaiser Wilhelm visited a recruit enrollment of the Guards. He walked the lines asking questions and warned a recruit who said he would tell crowds to go away. The emperor joked that he did not mean to be a nuisance while continuing to the next visitor.
An Austrian statistician compiles world rail data to 1895 showing 433,953 miles total. Asia holds one sixteenth, two thirds built by British enterprise. Australia leads in density with one mile per 306 people. Europe averages 1 to 2438, America 1 to 566, with Russia and major powers notably served. There is a closing quip about self-assurance.
A rapid collection of items: ethnology uses graphophones to archive vanishing songs and languages, Tristan d Acunha mail from St Helena, Chinese five related facts, a New York shoe dealer on ridicule of slippers, coroner jury pay in London fire, Delaware and Hudson adopts merit system, French women's legal rights widened, corset study praised, a European fraud case in Bulawayo, temperance drink effects, Seattle Melondike Widows society, Moseley sleigh lineage, a Tyrolean professor's long-lived marriage, Paris Opera deficits, Idaho meteor event near Duboise, Diesel engine projects for 1900, Venice doge lion statue return, German civil code reforms, antiseptic surgery gains, and cautious notes on poisonous plant spread near Philadelphia.
Not Always Deadly. The text notes that what triggers poison ivy to injure some people at times remains a profound mystery. It confirms poisoning instances occur but does not explain why.
A French doctor Dr Leon Noel asserts he has found the cancer germ in tree sap and that infection from contact or food spreads the disease. He inoculated a dog with the sap germs and it developed cancer, linking insects as carriers and suggesting possible vaccination in the future.
Sydney Smith noted he had consumed forty eight four horse wagon loads of food in his life yet he likely fed better guests at table, being the era’s most brilliant talker.
Maud praises a young man named Blank for his clear head in conversation. Clara notes nothing in his head. The dialogue contrasts a sensible youth with men who patronize bucket shops calling them little dippers.
In Colombia a class of professional pack-carriers routinely bear burdens heavier than mules. Descriptions recount a traveler’s encounter with a moving burden box and a strong-willed woman carrier. Maximum loads noted: men up to 333 pounds and women about 247.5 pounds.
Ex senator Thomas Fitch, famed in Virginia City mining camps for oratory and legal skill, loses 2530 in a long night of gambling. He declares the loss included 30 dollars in cash, illustrating his bad money judgment and risky bravado. Jim Merry notes Fitch’s luck as the worst kind.
The excerpt explains how legal slang and humor can confuse both laypeople and lawyers. It centers on a courtroom exchange where a witness and Lord Mansfield debate phrases like up to him and down upon him, highlighting linguistic misreads in law.
An early note describes La Fronde, a new Paris daily, to be operated wholly by women. Office boys and press room roles are filled by young maids, with all printing and editorial positions held by women, reflecting a women run newspaper in Paris.
Madame Marguerite Durand de Valiere leads La Fronde the Parisian weekly housed at 14 rue St George. The paper targets theater music fashion and leisure while embracing refined feminine tastes and featuring contributors like Sarah Bernhardt and Calve.
The article notes authors like John Oliver Ntobes and H G Wells expanding catalogs with revised War of the Worlds and new chapters. It mentions Robert Burns letters to be published, daily consular reports editions, and a rise in total books published in 1897 with fiction dominating output.
A Vancouver voyage tale recounts a whale woke by a passing ship. The sleeping giant surged from the water, startling passengers and sending chairs and novels scattering with a cry from an infant asking if the whale jumped from the cabin window.
The Santa Fe Railroad names C. H. Bookout a station agent at Wilmore Kansas a full blooded Indian who previously worked as a section hand then learned telegraphy and self educated in English.
The passage notes Mark Twain claiming limited jokes in the world and compares him to Artemus Ward for authorship. It also humorously criticizes a man’s business conduct as requiring a farewell kiss to all women before boarding a train.
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