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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1894
Page
6
A collage of light humor from various papers detailing jokes about preachers lawyers and editors plus airy exchanges about love travel and daily life. Vignettes feature appearances by Nell Belle Mrs Flaherty Mrs Dooley and a cast of named sources as witty snippets on social mores and human foibles.
A collection of brief jokes and aside gags from multiple sources including Indianapolis Journal Puck and Truth. Snippets feature mistaken romance banter old soldier humor and social observations. Headlines note lively exchanges about vanity discretion duties and gossip in a playful miscellany.
The German town of Klingenberg on the Main embodies social reform ideas in practice. Publicly owned fireproof clay pits near the town fund municipal benefits, yielding profits to cover local and imperial taxes and providing a surplus for residents. This year every young man starting military service receives a 15 mark gift.
A Detroit Free Press tale recalls a streetcar scene where a man, elated and talkative, proclaims a moment of happiness with Miss Sweetbrier as seven women listen, one by one leaving when he reveals he earns only eight dollars a week and cannot marry. In a separate note, the piece explains how solids flow under pressure, citing Tresca and Helmholtz with examples from lead, steel, ice, and glass.
Sir Robert Ball in a peculiar address described the diamond as made of an enormous number of separate molecules swinging to and fro at millions of vibrations per second all in action together and quivering with the shows of impact.
A historical account explains hasheesh or cannabis indica preparations used in India for festive drinking and smoking. It details methods of infusion with butter or oil to make marzipan like ma julius cakes, and smoking with tobacco in pipes. Descriptions cover initial exhilaration, delirium, and later dreamy intoxication with possible collapse into stupor, plus warnings of addiction and ruin.
London Times reports Pastor Gottschalk of the Berlin foundling house in Hong Kong describes polygamy customs in China. Girls 14 to 16 can cost at least $100, infant wives are sometimes kept for nursing future husbands. Kidnappings and forced marriage fears prevail as three or four years ago twenty girls were stolen in one night. Berlin foundling house gains little from demand due to Chinese Christian suitors and superstition about foundlings.
A Pomona California family led by Manuel Cota, a tall emaciated shepherd with no English, has twenty six children born to him and his wife since their 1959 marriage. The eldest is 34 with seven offspring. the youngest is two weeks old. Fifteen are married and Manuel is grandfather to twenty one. Also noted is a market report on American apples and English imports, citing large weekly sales and yearly values.
Professor Gilbert recalls three major U S earthquakes this century. The 1811–12 delta region quake caused long tremors, land subsidence, and lakes draining. The Inyo Valley quake of 1872 altered fault lines near the Sierra Nevada, with fissures and Owens River effects. The 1886 Charleston event caused wide cracks, buckled tracks, and 27 deaths, underscoring frequent seismic activity and the seismograph’s revealing role.
A German garden near Steinham showcases carved plant sculptures that depict people, animals, and scenes as cars pass by. The piece notes historic European court gardens trimming flora into figures and compares them to famed dwarf Japanese trees, highlighting the enduring curiosity for shaped plant forms.
A compact set of antiquated anecdotes paints judgment in a goose tale from Paris and Goethe’s waterborne prank. The piece links the porter’s fine with a cook and Seyny Jean’s coin jingle, then shifts to Goethe frightening a peasant and lamp trickery at Weimar. It concludes with brief notes on lese majesté in German courts, a Lewiston Journal wedding quip, and a jab about women voting and bonnet betting.
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