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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1908
Page
3
A fragment collection recalls Sir Humphry Davy as a boy solving why two cane pieces give a spark, crediting a careful girl for prompting observation. It touches on plant flinty skin protecting inner tissue and a vivid Old France scene of etiquette, plus a child safety moment with Mabel running downhill holding her dress.
The passage whimsically imagines restoring old French table etiquette from Francis I to Louis XIV. It describes a royal banquet scene a duchess with napkin at her neck and a noble marquis enjoying a bone, imagining a lively cataract of laughter amid regal serenity.
A comic exchange shows a physician asking about aches and palpitations and promising a cure for breath trouble. In a separate line a novelist answers a question about his villain by saying he imagined a man with all forms of wickedness blamed on him by his wife.
A collage of witty anecdotes and observations on wealth, contentment, pirates, and mimicry. It cites Socrates on desire, a Chicago News joke about pirates in Indiana, and a lecture noting mimicry as a survival tool and social behavior, ending with a playful wedding miscue about a hitch.
A teacher asks how to write horn and a boy replies that a horn isn’t written at all but blowed. The brief exchange captures a child’s literal take on language and spelling.
A historical note surveys English masters famed for corporal punishment. Dr Busby of Westminster is named as the chief flogger, with stories of flogging a viscount and his envoy. Dr Valpy, who edited classics, is cited for blunt warnings to a protesting father, epitomizing stern discipline. Archdeacon Groom, a pupil, narrates the scene of punished pride.
A fragmentary quotation urges not to overdo study as it harms health and mood. It emphasizes moderation, suggesting that excessive studiousness yields little reward and stresses preserving well being and good humor as essential to true value.
A Des Moines Capital note highlights a bargain counter sale running to year end with items tagged at one dollar. It references a Coley tee and hints at a promotional push tied to a local retail event.
Theodore Hook forged 4000 letters to tradesmen and others, summoning them to a wealthy widow’s house in Berners Street, London. The crowd arrived from dawn to near midnight, including chimney sweeps bakers doctors dentists priests ministers confectioners undertakers fishmongers and even the Bank of England governor the Duke of Gloucester and the lord mayor. Police investigated but Hook was never found.
The Romans excelled with the bow though later reliance shifted to charges and close combat. Emperors Domitian and Commodus boasted perfect aim, using arrows to kill or incapacitate in grand displays. Commodus reportedly killed a wild beast with a single arrow as 100 lions and other feats were performed.
In the ruined Star and Garter coffee room at Richmond a longtime patron, a broad, gray haired man with a large shirt collar, dines alone at a corner table. After dinner he stacks tumblers into a pyramid topped by a decanter, sometimes watching it topple. He pays for the damage and leaves. the waiters know him well. The man is Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay.
A French journal surveys how races greet with phrases such as Koreans remarking you do look old, Persians blessing beards, Fiji Islanders pulling ears, Caro Islanders kneeling and slapping feet, and Sudanese chiefs calling a traveler mighty sun and glory to thee. It notes an elevation not tied to fortune, a priceless self-belief La Rochefoucauld calls greatness.
In a clipped exchange, George brushes off concerns as a coincidence while his fancee Clara remarks that his decline mirrors past fallout after he jilted Clara for another. The tension hints at romantic entanglements and brewing consequences.
The preacher once joked that his deacons were worse than the devil. He quipped that resisting the devil drives him away, but resisting a deacon makes him fly at you, reflecting a humorous church anecdote about church leadership.
A reflective note on hope as a bittersweet mercy, recalling an old German proverb about suffering and memory that lingers after disappointment. The lines evoke melancholy and the endurance found in hopeful recollection.
Moe Rose questions if the automobile is replacing the horse in Browhing's Magazine dialogue. Joe Cose replies that he has not found the word automobile in his sample, suggesting partial influence. The exchange hints at evolving language and transportation shifts without asserting a definitive change.
A fragmentary note suggests plans to compile a life portrait for Modern Genina, but the speaker states there were no letters. The exchange hints at an unfinished biographical project and a lack of primary correspondence.
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