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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1911
Page
7
Robert Burns visits a village whisky shop run by Jean Davidson to inspect for water dilution. He seals a sample, returns in the morning, and Jean taunts him as a cooper drains and refills the bottle. The test proves the liquor proper and Burns is puzzled by the clever ruse.
A London Ideas joke has a terrace landlord questioning a prospective tenant about football and refereeing. The tenant says no referees, citing a past ref who was harmed by a wrong decision and could only breathe with difficulty, while the landlord adds a lighthouse crib and navy-scare noise from him.
A Berks county tale recalls a young man courting his fiancée in a saloon. A placard announced ice cream at one dollar per gal, and the suitor offered a dollar to buy it for his beloved, insisting he would pay any cost. The scene captures frontier humor and social norms of courtship.
An elderly man who has lived on the moors all his life joins two sons for a railway trip to Sheffield. At the station he is frightened by the sight of the train and, during a tunnel dash, laments I knew something would happen and says he is struck blind.
In Stray Stories, Marjorie resists churchgoing, the minister’s talk proving hard to grasp. Her mother suggests thinking of something good, and on the way home Marjorie explains she followed the tip by imagining chocolates.
Edward Hughes recalls a Seattle tale from 1897 when the Portland brought gold rush stories to town. Jerry Struck rich for a day then spent wildly on a lavish parade for his family before returning to ordinary life, leaving locals amused and amazed by his one glorious fling, as reported by the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Piron, a French writer, was brought before a police lieutenant after an all night encounter in Paris. He claimed, I am a poet, sir, and quipped that he has a brother who is a poet and another who is a fool, turning the exchange into a sharp literary retort.
An aging actor in a story brings a young companion and half a dozen shabby men and women into a reception room to create an impression for a wealthy patient expected that morning. The exchange reveals the actor’s plan and a judge’s commentary on the scene.
Oxygen was first separated from the red oxide of mercury by Dr. Priestley in 1774 and by Scheele in 1775. It is essential to animal life and combustion, makes up about one third of the solid earth, nine tenths of water, and one fifth of the atmosphere. Oxygen was liquefied by Pichet at Geneva in 1877.
A Chicago News excerpt describes southern Tunis where troglodyte communities live in cave homes carved from rock. A desert capital with about 3,000 residents features multi level excavated rooms for living, stables and granaries, with shafts for light and air.
The article notes that early Europeans lacked knives and forks until later periods. Voltaire cites their use on the continent by the 13th century, with Venice adopting them somewhat later. England lagged in table manners, and forks first appeared in Sheffeld around 1608.
In the palmy days of French monarchy lavish entertainments marked royal life. The Comte d Artois rebuilt and refurnished his castle for a queen, with 900 workers working day and night. The Marshal de Soubise hosted Louis XV for a day at a cost of 2 000 000. The king quipped about debt, and the host promised to consult his steward.
Harper's Weekly notes that seas hold forty to milligrams of gold per ton. Though tiny per ton, the oceans’ vast volume yields a huge total gold amount. If mined, the distributed share would be an ingot weighing about 80,000 pounds for every person.
On a cold night a tiny boy runs to a watchman's hut and stares at a decayed fire. He asks watchie if that is a dead heat, turning a bleak moment into a playful quip in London Tit-Bits.
A London Mail verse tale recounts James sent with a hare in a hamper who rests, discovers the hare vanished as it bolts along the road. James laments the loss and mutters about not knowing the address on the hamper.
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