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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1908
Page
3
A fragmentary readers’ note recalls Sir Humphry Davy as a boy solving a spark from cane by rubbing two pieces together. It then meanders through vivid, unrelated excerpts about plant coverings, manners at feasts, and a child named Mabel stating she holds to herself to avoid a fall.
This excerpt envisions restoring old France dining rituals from Francis I to Louis XIV. It imagines a royal banquet filmed in an instant, a “cataract of laughter” echoing through paradise. The duchess mumbles a bone as the noble marquis is described in period tones.
A comic dialogue contrasts a physician and patient about breath and pain with a quip about a remedy that ends the claustrophobic gag. The Villain Critle is praised as a perfect masterpiece while a novelist jokes about his wife’s view of his wickedness.
A collage of jokes and quips on wealth, mimicry, and daily misadventures. Notes on Socrates valuing want less, pirates in Indiana, and a sequence about coughing, wedding hitches, and playful wordplay from exchanges and cartoons.
A compact survey notes Dr Busby of Westminster as a premier flogger. It cites Valpy who boasted of punishing pupils and even threatening the parent. Archdeacon Groom recalls an anecdote of Valpy’s stern discipline. A separate Chicago Tribune joke concerns a physician diagnosing malnutrition and prescribing surgery for a five dollar fee.
A reflective note on overstudying warns that excessive diligence harms health and mood. It urges stepping back to protect well being and enjoy life, acknowledging that true learning benefits from balance and good spirits.
Theodore Hook forged four thousand letters to four thousand tradesmen and others inviting them to visit Mrs Tottenham’s house in Berners Street London. The crowd arrived from daybreak until late night with chimney sweeps bakers doctors dentists undertakers and clergy among them. The governor of the Bank of England the Duke of Gloucester and the lord mayor sought the ruse before police intervened but the tricker was never caught.
A historical sketch notes Romans valued archery, citing Domitian and Commodus as famed bowmen. Domitian allegedly shot arrows between boys’ outstretched fingers in the circus, while Commodus boasted perfect aim killing beasts with arrows.
In Richmond's old Star and Garter coffee room once burned in 1869, a regular evening patron and noted writer appears. A middle aged, broad man with gray hair, a large shirt collar, dined alone at a corner table. He built a pyramid of glasses, toppled it, paid for the broken glass, and left. The waiters knew him as Thomas Babington Macaulay.
The article surveys exotic salutations from various cultures, noting Koreans greeting with You do look old, Persians blessing beard, Fiji islanders pulling ears, Caro line islanders kneeling and slapping, and a Sudanese chief saluting with Mighty sun and Glory to thee. It then cites La Rochefoucauld on a distinguishing air of greatness.
A fragment shows a tense exchange where a fiancee warns George he is deteriorating while he mutters about a coincidence and recalls Clara’s remark after he left her for his partner. The dialogue hints at heartbreak, guilt, and caught romantic entanglements.
Spurgeon once joked that deacons outwitted the devil, saying resist the devil and he will flee but resist a deacon and he will fly at you, reflecting his humorous view on church leadership and friction within congregational life.
A melancholy old German proverb notes there is no sweeter suffering than hope and that to hearts cured by disappointment, all hope remains but memory.
A Browning's Magazine quip features Moe Rose and Joe Cose debating whether the automobile will fully replace the horse. The dialogue notes cautious optimism and a humorous caveat about absent cars in daily life.
Fragmentary quotes hint at a biographer compiling the life of a modern genius. The speaker mentions a lack of letters and a plan to proceed without them, suggesting ongoing confusion over source material and method.
The Toledo Blade boasts national circulation, low cost, and plain facts. It claims 200,000 yearly subscribers with topics for all families, including short stories and departments. Readers are invited to write for a free specimen copy.
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