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Newspaper
Plainfield Courier
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1891
Page
4
A rustic poem fragment recalls haste in farming tasks. The lines contrast dropping corn for wheat and delaying mowing with weather and stars as witnesses. It mentions bad Peven and June, grass growth, pasture bars, and shearing, conveying a rural working mood.
In 19th century Cairo Suleiman Pasha, famed for artillery leadership, plays a daily chess duel with Reshid Aga at a Nile cafe. A gray bearded stranger challenges him, stakes a hundred ducats, and for twelve moves appears to lose after a bold queen sacrifice. The crowd gasps as the stranger unfolds a masterful comeback, delivering a dramatic mates-in-twelve finish, shocking the renowned commander.
The Pasha attempts to break a blockade by sacrificing his queen but fails as White checks. A crowd watches as the stranger, revealed as Count von Moltke, recalls the Nisib campaign and its brilliant maneuvers. The Pasha praises the masterful play before recognizing the German commander.
A trimmed selection from the Chicago Tribune and New York Tribune features a polite highway robbery anecdote praising the thief’s neat efficiency, a tale of two brothers swapping coats at an elevated station, a Swiss post office travels note, a Maine congressman climbing a tree to tend fruit, and a Washington DC house once linked to Daniel Webster with a linden tree dating to 1850.
A potpourri of antiquated tips includes home cures with potash and soda for digestion, jewelry cleaning with soap and whiting, and aging wrinkles in horses. Also notes on medical misdirection for women, flavoring butter with flowers, and a drifting driftwood comment from Driftwood and American Bee Journal.
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