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Newspaper
Rolla Express
Location
Rolla, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1872
Page
4
A long, lively compilation of puns, quips, and anecdotes pokes fun at love, history, and everyday life. Notes on Punch style humor mix with brief curiosities, remarks on fashion, and snippets about society figures and events. The fragment shows playful, period humor and social observations.
A World editorial blasts jurors who freed Mrs Fair describing them as blundering boobies and urges them to hang themselves. It blames Californian society for fostering lawlessness and invokes Vigilance Committee memories amid fears of renewed violence after a murder case.
A late 19th century critic muses on the paradox of trust and credulity. He argues that division of labor makes reliance on others essential, as few grains of falsehood can be tolerated per bushel of truth, and notes the ease with which a good face can secure credit. He warns against abusing honest reputation and contemplates extreme fraud if honesty were traded for profit, then shifts to a scientific aside about frozen mass preservation and plans of Clarence Sterling to deepen a well exploration next year.
In Schliersee and surrounding areas, women perform much agricultural labor and even bricklaying. Many wear masculine pantaloons during the week yet costumes return to festive Bavarian dress on Sundays. Women row boats on lakes, carry heavy loads, and help saw wood, proving strength and multifaceted labor widespread in the region.
In Brandon Vermont a well 41 feet deep has remained frozen year round since 1859. Ice forms in winter at two to four inches nightly and sometimes persists into hot summers. Ice measured twenty inches thick was removed in April, but warmth refroze it. Nearby shafts failed to find frozen ground, though attempts will resume next summer. Professors speculate glacial remanence explains the anomaly, with clay beds blocking sun heat.
The French revenue returns for the first half show a deficit near 18 million dollars and tax yields well below estimates. Tobacco and post office taxes underperform, while France seeks a new commercial treaty with England to offset internal burdens. Thiers moves government offices to Paris and negotiates a balance between republicans and conservatives.
The Philadelphia Press notes Mexico now shows law and order after turmoil, celebrating national consciousness and self-government. It highlights Juarez’s leadership and a planned railroad network radiating from Mexico City, inviting U.S. enterprise via liberal grants to implement a broad, modern transportation system.
The Journal of Commerce sides with Judge Benedict that a year’s imprisonment and a $500 fine are inadequate for sending obscene publications through the Post Office. It calls the offense deadly to mankind’s interests and questions suitable penalties, noting English trends toward whipping as a deterrent to corrupting youth.
An Illinois correspondent to the New York Independent recounts a Missouri Bottoms incident where a couple, after five years of marriage, agreed to a wife’s calico shirt pledge in exchange for the husband renouncing claims to a child. The wife moves to a widower, all parties remain friendly, but events unfold with a smallpox case and subsequent care by the first wife for the dying man. Widows and children later live on the farm with shared work.
The narrator questions how a minister could be willing to perform a marriage ceremony under difficult conditions. He notes婚 ceremonies are often viewed as the required step to legalize unions, and after observing a local preacher and his monthly ministrations, believes he might unknowingly undertake such an act.
A reprint cites Dr Lewis on a remarkably cheap weekly diet, claiming to subsist an entire week on fifty four and a quarter cents. The piece narrates daily meals from Sunday to Saturday, noting costs, foods like hulled corn oatmeal beans hominy and even a lobster. It concludes with cautious bemusement and disclaimers about offering advice.
The London Spectator reviews Richard Mallet’s seismological theory that gradual cooling causes the earth to contract at different rates interiorly. The cooling drives crustal compression, folding, and lifting to form mountains, then later crushing and dislocation. Heat arises from this crushing, and water access at heat points triggers volcanic eruptions.
The Prairie Farmer guide advises examining bees by early November and moving them to winter quarters. Keep hives on stands a foot high and close together, with a tight roof and vented walls. Add sunless shading with board fronts, straw between hives, and a light north east west wall. If well ventilated, minimal care is needed through winter. watch for dysentery signs on hive entrances and hope for spring emergence around March.
Berlin law journal notes Dr Schoppe’s acquittal in the Miss Steinecke case while recounting past acts. It recalls a 100,000 thalers theft by Schoppe and his father Pastor Schappe, and an alleged poisoning in America. It mentions a vetoed bill to reopen the case and a political override by both houses. Axtronst: Karr reportedly keeps skulls from a former lover and a servant, used for revenge.
A compilation of winter digestion tips such as Burrrn ie aid, and autumn leaf poison ivy cautions. It includes shell framing with putty, raw skin processing, horse foundering remedy using dry salt, linseed cough syrup, charcoal and salt for cattle health, and a poison antidote using salt and mustard followed by egg white or coffee.
A summary of debates sparked by Liebig's meat extract and its nutrition. The piece notes how the extract, developed with Gilbert in South America and refined in Munich, was once praised for safety and nourishment. It also cites Dr Muller’s claims that broth lacks nutritive value and acts only as an excitant, referencing experiments like Shemmerich’s rabbit test, and concludes people will keep eating broth despite doctors' efforts.
A London Lancet reviewed view that tea sustains tissues by a preservative effect and boosts mood, offering comfort to the poor. It discusses tea as nourishment and its impact on temper, with satirical notes from a Titusville Press recipe series and a Wets orator remark on innocence as an umbrella.
The article argues Western prairies should adopt steam ploughing, citing England Germany and Egypt as examples. It promotes farmer cooperation to purchase and hire out ploughs, noting increased yields on a London-area trial and profit from steam farming. It contrasts with obsolete wooden ploughs and calls for collective action by settlers and new colonies.
The notice warns readers about small pox spreading nationwide and urges precautions including vaccination and Maguire's Cundurango Bitters to cleanse the stomach and purify the blood. It also promotes Jones' Business and Telegraph College in St Louis for practical business education and Parker's Compound to treat disease. A pastry treasure called The Charter Oak is described as the family light, followed by a line about criminal imposition.
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