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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1876
Page
3
At Well Gate explosion the two year old daughter of Gen. Newton, guided by her father, prepared the key of the battery that fired the mine. The poem contrasts old mythic power with modern science as it casts Newton as master of the new era.
Miss Betsy Clapper, a plain milliner in Cherry Hill, receives a mysterious South American marriage proposal from Robert Gray after Col Joe the postmaster reads his letter aloud. The intrigue sparks town gossip, but Betsy meets the suitor, confirms his identity, and they wed in six weeks, with Betsy remaining at home and Gray settling plans in South America.
In Buffalo the Scientific Association heard Prof J S Newberry of Columbia College discuss the great lakes origin. He outlines a sequence from ancient Laurentian mountains supplying Paleozoic rocks, through preglacial drainage forming Ontario Erie and Huron as river valleys, to Lake Michigan as part of a drainage system feeding the Mississippi.
Statistics compiled from army examinations show Americans tallest on average at five feet seven plus inches, Germans shortest, with Irish and English in between. Chest expansion and age differences noted, Americans generally taller and more slender, but gaps smaller than popular caricatures imply. Details compare Americans, Canadians, British, Irish and German recruits.
A collection of parodies and wry observations from a newspaper page. Jests touch on Mosquito souls, beehives, postal stamps, and a Baltimore style of humor. Anecdotes include a California infant sea-serpent, a beehive sighting, and a husband courting Centennial business. Notable quips cite Noraine, Sir Arthur Helps, and a Danbury marriage scene.
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