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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1898
Page
4
A mix of kept fowls described as Sultans and Transylvanias with notes on their plumage and behavior. Then a series of farm tips on self closing gates, seed corn selection, turnips after frost, husking, weaning colts, manure salt, grape vines on fences, pig feed, and bee keeping practices.
This excerpt surveys January’s symbols from Janus the gatekeeper to wolf month and after Christmas in Saxon lore. It cites illuminations in missals, Spenser’s Faerie Queene, and Charles Lamb on January 1 as the birth of a new year and a universal dating anchor.
Amelia Wofford recounts in The Court Jesters of England how Archee Armstrong, beloved jester to James VI and I, spared a shepherd’s son by promising to read the Bible but quipped he would rather be hanged than read. The king pardoned the thief, who then joined Archee as a favored jester.
The article notes telegraph speed from four to five words a minute at inception to 468 words a minute between London and Dublin with Wheatstone instruments, showing a hundredfold increase in sixty years. It also describes Rais prison in France, the first built on the old cellular plan, with 1,200 wheel-like cells allowing prisoners to see the chapel and hear services without leaving their cells.
The Mexican torch thistle grows fifty to sixty feet tall, resembling a candelabrum. A related variety features long gray bristles that give it the look of an old gray-headed man.
A brief note shows children under seven favor yellow over other colors. It also states that calls at eleven in the morning imply someone is seeking dinner.
A Civil War vignette follows a young New Hampshire recruit named Goosy who suffers brain injury, endures misperception by comrades, and saves his regiment’s colors during a brutal assault near Richmond. He dies as his unit wins a crucial battery, with the captain noting Goosy saved the colors. The piece closes with war reflections and a moral about apologizing to children.
The piece surveys poverty statistics across Europe and the United States, attributing 11 percent of poverty to drink and 21.8 percent to misconduct, with 28.5 percent to insufficient wages. It notes London and other cities spend large sums on relief and includes a London survey by Booth. It also recounts St Nicholas magazine’s article on English court jesters such as Tarleton, Pace, and others, plus Worcester street names and a brief note on a receptive interlocutor from the Indianapolis Journal.
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