Variety of oddities and notes from The Register
A long miscellany toplines stumps burned with kerosene leaving ash, a hunter crossing multiple Southern counties to reach his post office, opium use in Persia, a London wedding child bridesmaid, Oregon clam shell beds and relics, Philadelphia fiddles, a Texas riot of legal tax and a Assam tiger chase, a Louisiana lottery magnate’s rise and fall, and impending wheat insect damage with Hessian fly details.
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Maryland
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Staten Island
William Howe
Stonewall Jackson’s Scheme and a Courtroom Laugh
A joke about Stonewall Jackson proposing a night attack with shirt tails showing to identify friendly troops appears in a Portland Oregon court case. The incident contrasts a newspaper humor claim with a journalist convention punch line and notes a defamation verdict over Lily Hill’s flat forehead.
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Portland
Oregon
Lily Hill
Man and the Ascidian by Lang
A poetic compare and contrast tracing Darwinian idea that humans descend from simple tadpole-like ancestors. The poem argues youth grants freedom and awareness, while aging binds us to habit and society, ending with man returning to the ascidian’s rooted state.
Amateur photographer tale ends in comic disaster
Reuben Higglesworth buys a home amateur photographic outfit and photographs his wife, children, cat, and dog. The results are comically distorted. the prints resemble odd creatures and a puzzling map. He later sells the tale to a newspaper, sparking a mock public notice about marvelous pictures.
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Reuben Higglesworth
Higglesworth
Mr. Higglesworth
Sary Ann
Sary Ann Higglesworth
Mrs. Higglesworth
Tom
Reuben
Joe
Susan
Caroline
Topsy
Carlo
Mrs. H
Mary Ann
Dime Museum
Reuben Rigglesworth
Amachoor
Barnum
Egypt
Weill
Susie
Lary Ann
Howelltown
Boraxicum
Central Africa
New York Weekly
Dentists and Drowning Hats in Quirky Exchange
A farmer's wife recalls paying a dollar for a tooth extraction and bristles at the high cost. The tale notes the dentist worked for over an hour, delivering a vivid contrast with a prior 50 cent, two minute pull. A Brooklyn Union quip adds a hat as improvised life preserver.
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Evry
Maria
Brooklyn Union
Quips and cartoons in a midwestern miscellany
A collage of humor items from a late 19th century paper includes cartoons and jokes about fashion, love, and social manners. It swaps quips on photographs and royalties with light verse and anecdotal vignettes about couples, churchwardens, trains, and travelers, reflecting era wit.
An Economical Darkey Inquires For Aid
Gabe Snodgrass sought pecuniary help from Reverend Aminidab Bledso of the Blue Light Tabernacle. The parson refused, citing duty to his aged mother and accusing the seeker of pressuring an outsider to pay.
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Gabe Snodgrass
Aminidab Bledso
Blue Light Tabernacle
Parson Bledso
Tenras
Sober Reflections on Fainting and Love in Society
A column at odds with dramatic fainting in public, noting women aim for swooning as a social spectacle. It argues fainting is ungraceful and inconvenient, and questions why talents for swooning are not kept private. The piece contrasts passion and love and jokes about male valuations of favors.
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Col. Ludlow
Philadelphia
Persia
Ohio
Supreme Court
Jasper
Sairey
Sairey Jasper
Jeremiah
Boston Beacon
Rockland Courier
Jaddie
Scott
Boston Advertiser
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AxBo
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