Odd barnyard tale and a biting rescue
A Santa Rosa cour near a barnyard dragged a barley sack to its mother after a finder moved it. In Arkansas a cotton-mouth bit Miss Rosa Fenton. she chopped off the finger with an ax, drank whisky, then fainted and recovered in two weeks. Queen Victoria creates the Distinguished Service Order for meritorious war services with appointments by warrant and sign-manual.
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Santa Rosa
Cal
Rosa Fenton
Crittenden County
Arkansas
Queen Victoris
Chinese cook dies after whisky and a nurse’s prank news
A Carson City report says a Chinese cook employed by Dr Southworth drank hot whisky and predicted death by morning. He died in his deathbed after a late knock a wall request. The item also notes a Georgia cow and gander clash and a Portland Chinaman touring with Hanford’s exhibit.
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Carson
Southworth
Takesick
Polyglot presses and butter tests spark eccentric tales
A Burlington Gazette note describes a butter test using a glass tube to distinguish butter from oleomargarine. It then shifts to Col Hall from St Paul visiting Chicago seeking a polyglot press for multilingual newspapers, ending with his dramatic confrontation and departure.
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Col. H. P. Hart
Publishers’ Mutual Benefit Association of
Col. Hall
St. Paulite
Skafferen
Wanderer
Irish Chronicle
Appeal
Chicago
Boston
Publishers’ Mutual Benefit Association
Humorous Newspaper Snippets on Weather and Woes
A collection of light items notes weather changeability jokes and a peculiar man tale. Civil service quip mocks name and birth state questions while a tailor debt joke turns a five thaler stalemate into a simple balance. Medical banter contrasts diagnosis with an unusual recovery.
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Tam
Women Should Not Be Allowed To Run Society
A Cincinnati Enquirer excerpt argues that women’s habits and education foster over sensitiveness and fragile health. It claims tight lacing cosmetics and indoor living worsen blood, nerves, and digestion, leading to morbid anxiety and medical overreach.
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Cincinnati Enquirer
A New Household Game Halma Introduced in Normandy
A household game named Halma, invented by a noted gentleman in Normandy, is described. It uses a board four times larger than chess with 19 pieces per side in each corner. The objective is to swap positions of white and black pieces using king moves or long jumps, without captures.
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Normandy
America
Primitive board game draws interest worldwide
The article describes a yard-style game laid out in nineteen squares with a heavy black line forming the yard. Four players can join as partners, using thirteen men in smaller yards at the corners. Inventor's friends have used it over a year, attracting attention in domestic and foreign countries, prompting publication due to its fascination and simplicity plus hidden complexity.
Immediately After Marriage and Six Months Later
A St. Paul Globe item humorously contrasts early and later marriage behavior. It follows a wife and husband as they walk past dress goods, discuss purchases, and drift into financial frictions and drifting attention, illustrating evolving dynamics after marriage.
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Charley
St. Paul Globe
Jealousy Sparks Over Dinner Scene
A Cincinnati Enquirer item recalls a couple dining out where a handsome stranger nearby triggers a jealous scene. The wife accuses the other woman of flirtation, while counsel echoes social hypocrisy about gender and propriety.
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Mrs. Phule
Mrs. Phale
Phale
Cincinnati
Insect-eating Birds Compared to Sausage Consumption
The article notes birds eat large amounts and cites Prof Wood comparing a human diet to a red-breast thrush. He estimates a man would need to eat sixty seven feet of a sausage nine inches in circumference daily to match the bird's proportional intake, about an earthworm fourteen feet long.
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Wood
Harvest festival in German estates contrasts with New England farming
The Irate-dankfest in Germany is a private celebration of harvest for large estates. Each proprietor hosts with many servants, a decorated cart to the field, a blessing from the pastor, and days of feasting and dancing in barns. Local villagers, guests, and overseers join in, with music and merriment, as Schiller noted in Song of the Bell.
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Germany
New England
Schiller
New Fork Observer
One Side of the Question
A traveling narrator recalls a Scientific American claim that laughter prolongs life. The tale centers on a San Antonio incident where joking saved one man’s life yet caused another death, used to argue laughter’s life extending but dangerous effects.
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Scientific American
San Antonio
Zib Lock
Bob Foster
Foster
Zib
T Foster
The Perfect Image and a Missing Father
A gushing pastor praises a child to a householder who reveals the boy is adopted. The exchange notes the boy’s resemblance to his father, whom the speaker has never seen, highlighting a mystery around paternity.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Contractor dies after gun battle over wage demand in Arizona
An Arizona fort contractor confronts striking workers demanding $4 per day after agreeing to $3.50. A confrontation turns deadly when a leader is shot by the contractor. The wounded man dies after a final drink and cigar as the contractor survives. The tale ends with the question of whether the strikers returned to work for the lower wage.
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Arizona
Noah Count
Drake
Zip
Havana
Posal
Kingdom Come
Thurmans Red Bandannas
A Washington Critic item reports how Judge Thurman prepares for a town tour. He selects a white pocket, a silk colored handkerchief, and a red bandanna from drawers, then Mrs Thurman ties his shoes, a ritual he has performed since marriage, to greet the day contentedly.
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Thurman
Science and Love in British Association Debate
At a British Association meeting Sir George Campbell proposed pairing by physiological fitness to improve race. Grant Allen countered that love is driven by complementary natures and traits of youth health and strength. He argued science could guide public sentiment toward better selection and educate love rather than rely on money rank or convenience.
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British Association
George Campbell
Grant Allen
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