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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1889
Page
7
A Washington letter recalls a parade of lawmakers and notable figures shaved in city shops. Barbers recount temperaments of Perry Belmont Sunset Cox Conkling Reed Cannon and others, noting how public men behaved in the chair and the quirks of famous visitors and politicians.
A visitor at the National Museum heard a racket as if many animals fought, but the keeper said nothing serious was happening. He explained the grizzly bear was playfully scuffling with the black bear after a bearLanguage insult led to a scuffle. The tale ends with a girl’s changing view of life after marriage.
A sequence of folk wart remedies is recounted from Atlanta and Americus through remarks by police officers and citizens. Beans leaf rub, red corn cob polish, snail rubbing, full moon directions, and a tobacco chew procedure are described as cures, with several anecdotes of wart remission within days.
A verdant young couple arrived at an Eastern minister's parsonage during a torrential rain. They were soaked and dried by the kitchen fire before a ceremony. The bridegroom quips that the downpour makes now the perfect time to marry, saying they wouldn't have come in good plowing weather.
The Prince of Monaco rules five thousand subjects from a gilded throne at Versailles with a 70 man guard, 36 carabiniers, and 18 sergents de ville. The taciturn sovereign lives with Jesuits and is rarely seen, while his hereditary heir hosts a yearly dinner for officials, clergy, navy, army, judges, and magnates.
The brief notes Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar are praised as a preventive aid, Pike's Tootache Drops promise quick relief in one minute, and Kane’s last year produced one fifth of the United States silk cocoons, highlighting industry and patent medicine mentions.
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