Prairie Vision in Wisconsin Described in Poetic Tour
Vivid rustic prose from a Wisconsin prairie description likens fields to a sea of tall grasses. A narrator recalls Rock Prairie Mount Zion views, wildlife and flowers, and praises the bald eagle and prairie rose as symbols of youth and beauty.
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North Carolina Republican
Janesville Gazette
New England
Tam
Great Valley
Monsieur Frog
Ihe
Mount Aion
Rock Prairie
West
Mount Zion
Praveler
Country Editors and the Press Battles They Face
A tirade praising country editors for their hard work and perseverance against urban press machinery. It contrasts rural editors with city giants, noting long hours, limited resources, tight spaces, and constant paper shortages as they publish, print, and market their papers.
Humorous mishap and animal folly reported in Saint Louis
A gentleman and his Irish servant were unseated when their horse bolted after a sea voyage adventure. The wig was lost, Pat clutched his head bleeding, mistaking the wig for his own scalp. A second note recalls a stubborn mule pair backing in conflict, provoking laughter at a negro drayman’s effort. Ohio notes say the Small Bill Law is widely ignored.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pat
Awell
Portrait of a Hard Case
A scathing tirade denounces a self styled clever man as useless and hypocritical. The speaker mocks vanity and sham wit, comparing the target to a fool in full dress and belittling his actions, character, and supposed intellect. The rant ends labeling him a hard case with no real value.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake Superior
You are a Brick and Other Oddities in a 19th Century Tale
A professor mistakes a new student’s answer of You are brick as insult, learning the student’s full name is Uriah Reynolds Anderson Brick. The narrative shifts to a lesson about Russia’s Nicholas and his sons with notes on their education and manners, then to a New Hampshire tale of a deacon and a cooperative day.
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Cyrus Leeand
A.c
Leland
Davis’ Ohio
Wood & Shoulads
Adams, Baraboo
J. F. Sanford
N. B
A. Andrews
The
New York Tribune
Flartford
Berend Wienstranger
Brick
Aly
U. R.A. Brick
Uriah Reynolds Anderson Brick
Lessor
Russia
Nicholas
Alexander
Constantine
Michael
Cottman
Isthers
New Hampshire
of White
Yondey
The Conditional Man in Conversation with Mr White
A composite dialogue sketches Mr White who refuses unconditional assent to ideas. The piece contrasts his cautious replies with a running critique of railroads, ministers, and local improvements. It includes a humorous aside about a boy with dirty hands and a quip about washed hands improving cleanliness. It ends with short anecdotes about a Saratoga Republican printer’s predicament and a joke about a rock cradle.
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Mr. White
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