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Newspaper
Rolla Express
Location
Rolla, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1873
Page
4
A row of jumbled vignettes and quips ranges from medical musings to political barbs. It jokes about rhetoric on matrimony, dignity of nobility, and folly of public policy while noting oddities in library holdings, a sheepish state of locomotives, and a grim yarn about meningitis in Jersey City.
A London Quarterly Review reflection argues that dogs mirror human emotion more than body or mind, feeling anger, jealousy, envy, gratitude, regret, and hope. It notes gentleness after provocation, maternal sacrifice, personal vanity when dirty, and a chivalrous, magnanimous nature, though it condemns dog abuse as unworthy.
A historical analysis reports 4 157 completed personal crisis cases in 1870 France with 2 630 rural and 1 461 urban deaths by own action. Agricultural workers lead with 1 894 cases, while 1 243 victims were over 60. Causes include cerebral disease 1 876, suffering 980, love or misconduct 701, family discord 512, and reverses in fortune 383.
Mrs Leonowens portrays the duke of Bangkok's harem as a closed world of women, many young and subdued, with glimpses of past affections. She details the palace complex, river views from a carved wooden summer tower, and the education system where Girls are trained by female superintendents without books, using singing and memory.
A group of American theater figures staged a costly practical joke on English actor Mauld Sothern’s friend Mr. Philip Lee. Dinner with six to eight men at the Gramercy hotel featured boorish antics, a staged knife and gun “scare,” and a fake challenge sent to Police Justice Dowling. The ruse collapsed when the judge found no case, exposing a night of hoax and laughter at Lee’s expense and the participants.
The excerpt recalls vintage tall stories from American humor, describing a man so tall he needed a ladder to shave, a sneeze that could topple a buffalo, a lean pig tied by its tail, an artist catching a cold near a show storm, and land so rich a squash vine outran pigs. It notes a 1820 tale of a coach speeding past markers as if in a churchyard and a fast ship leaving its shadow around Long Island.
A witness recounts the St Leonard steamer boiler explosion with dark humor. Major N. quips that he is immune to blasts from his wife, while another testimony notes the last sighting of a missing man as the boiler burst and smoke-pipe descended. The anecdote appears in the British Quarterly.
A table from official sources shows twenty seven nations with 1862 to 1872 debt increases, totaling about 16.179 billion in 1872 and 9.113 billion in 1862. With England added, world debt nears 20 billion, spread over 127 million people, averaging about 47 dollars per person.
A cable report says the Empress of Russia may visit Naples with a fleet, then go to Rome to meet the King of Italy and the Holy Father. The move follows the Grand Duke Nicholas visit and hints at potential Russia Rome talks to ease Catholic Poland persecution and improve church conditions.
The King of the Sandwich Islands, Kamehameha the Fifth, died in Honolulu on December 11 after a period of illness. The succession question aspects stir debate among Polynesian people, with tensions toward self government and democratic ideals. The Washington Cabinet's approach remains to be seen amid anti-American sentiments in the late monarch. A recalled incident in the United States notes an insult to the prince's table manners, shaping historic Anglo American and British frenemy dynamics.
The first daily paper in the United States was the American Daily Advertiser in Philadelphia 1784, later named the Aurora, then Poulson's Advertiser under Zachariah Poulson. It supported Washington's administration and favored Hamilton. The New York Daily Advertiser began in 1785 with Freneau as editor, covering Washington's 1789 arrival from Elizabet hport in a sensational style.
A singular vegetable, the laughing plant, was found in Arabia. When seeds are pulverized and eaten in small amounts, the consumer laughs loudly then sings and dances for about an hour before sleeping. The plant is proposed as a cheap alcohol substitute, though it lacks the violent social impulses alcohol often induces.
The United States and Spanish governments agree to jointly hear testimony in Cuba for American claims arising from the four year Cuban insurrection. Claims cover property confiscation and personal outrages, with some reference to slave losses. Irregular cases and potential frauds are warned, citing Gardner and Meires as past examples of dubious mining claims. The process aims to prevent spurious claims as the commission inspects plantations and incidents in Cuba.
A column imagining a future housekeeping machine powered by gears and belts, replacing domestic servants. It compares a printing press to a living servant, envisions automatic coffee, cooking, cleaning, and laundry, notes costs and social implications, and ends with a challenge to invent and profit from such a device.
A North German Berlin paper discusses German government acts regulating emigrant fares and rail baggage tariffs aimed at slowing emigration to America. The piece defends governmental policy while accusing the American press of exaggeration and questions delays in treaty negotiations, stressing diplomatic stakes for both nations.
The piece explains a stock washing scheme where four brokers manipulate a stagnant stock. One sells, another buys what is offered, a third purchases, and the fourth sells again, repeating for several days to spark public interest. It cautions outsiders to avoid the suds and notes the need for a clique to carry out the operation.
A collection of old time home remedies and kitchen guidance covers foot care and digestion, diet rules, and cooking safety. It includes advice against overeating at meals, cautions about stimulants and tobacco, and notes on milk, tomatoes, bread, and fruit. Also included is a detailed method for making white soap from ashes and grease, with step by step soaking, leaching, boiling, and testing to produce sixteen to eighteen gallons of soap in two days.
Opinion column criticizes Congress for inviting Austria to Vienna while denying funds for the display. It mocks a speech about returned presents, proposes portraits of Congress leaders in the Palace of Industry, and condemns public expense as insulting to the nation. Also promotes Allen's Lung Balsam as a remedy for coughs and chest complaints.
Prolonged winter and variable weather trigger fevers chills and abdominal and kidney complaints. The advertisement touts Ma iware's Cundurango Liver and Blood Bitters as a universal remedy for male and female derangements claiming no alcohol and no piles. Also promotes Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and Dr Sage's Catarrh Remedy with nasal preparations, sold for $2 by druggists.
An OCR fragment touts cures for coughs and lung ailments with Brown's Bronchial Traches and Parker's Compound Fluid Extract, urging fair trials and quick relief. It mocks scolding but promotes the Jumwood Collar and Dr Jayne's Expectorant as cures, listing broad drugstore sales and hopeful outcomes.
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