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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1899
Page
5
London Spectator calls Vienna a proud imperial city rich in dignity and calm grace. It notes Vienna's disdain for trade and its self image as Charlemagne’s heirs, while highlighting its gate between east and west and its role as Europe’s guardian of order and leisure.
A collection of brief old world quips about M. de Fontenelle and contemporaries. A youth misreads love age speaks in print, a preacher tames disorder, and a ninety seven year old Fontenelle jokes about gallantry encountering Mme Helvetius.
A young man in a loud check suit asks to hire a horse and trap for a funeral. The cautious liveryman approves with warnings to drive carefully. The turnout is prepared as the young man vows to keep up with the funeral, even if it kills the horse.
Polk Miller of Richmond is famed for plantation life tales. He tells of an old darky Absalom who jokes about a widower’s plans with a second wife. Absalom recalls a paddle and suggests a bridle for the new wife in cautious humor.
A woman with a Kodak breached the roped line as President McKinley entered Omaha station. Police guard ordered her away, but the president intervened, saluted, and allowed her to take several clear photographs before she vanished.
A playful exchange quoted from the Chicago Post shows a man admitting he pursued five prior loves before proposing, while the woman questions his past. He confirms and explains he practiced with others to win her affection, highlighting romantic bravado and witty banter.
The New York Tribune notes a newly found Alaska peak said to exceed Mount St. Elias in height. It lies on the American side of the boundary, making Elias’s long pre-eminence questionable. The peak could offer a consolation to Elias as a major international landmark.
A street Arab badly injured by an omnibus is brought to hospital. The chaplain asks if he has been a good boy, the boy retorts, and both humor and fate mix in a tale of injury recovery. A second hospital anecdote recalls a patient wary of food smuggling and a whispering friend warning about a laryngoscope.
A friend of the late Dr William Pepper of Philadelphia recalls his uncanny ability to sleep at will. He could nap for ten minutes and wake instantly to resume conversations with patients, even in crowded offices or moving between venues, asleep in carriages trains or libraries without disturbance.
The Philadelphia Ledger outlines France's school calendar noting 206 holidays in a year versus 159 schooldays. It lists breaks including a 64 day midsummer period, 52 Sundays, 10 days for Christmas and New Year, 15 days for Eastertide, 52 Thursdays, and several other holy days plus the national July fete.
The Liverpool workhouse is the largest in the world with capacity for 5000 inmates yet only half occupied by permanent paupers. It can fill quickly during long labor strikes, but remains adequate for union needs. Liverpool also supports Bluecoat Hospital educating 350 children and several orphanages and welfare institutions.
In Switzerland a child absent from school prompts a public authority notice to the parent with a fine that rises each day. Sick days excuse the pupil, but any suspicion of feigning illness brings a doctor, and if proven, the parent covers the doctor's costs.
A reflective quotation on life and death by Myron W. Reed arguing that death is a bend in the road not an end. He asserts that energy persists and humans endure beyond immediate sight, framing death as a mere incident in the broader continuum of existence.
A Chicago Record snippet shows a financially strained woman arguing about an overdrawn balance. The bank clerk bluntly says there is no money left, prompting the customer to threaten leaving for another bank.
A witty exchange between a disappointed politician and a sardonic friend frames a scene in which the politician calls his latest setback historic, while the friend notes that history may be repeating itself, echoing themes of recurring political cycles.
Lansing January 4 Chief Justice Grant administered the oath of office to Governor Pingree and the officers elect at noon in the executive parlors of the state capitol. The inaugural reception drew about 8000 prominent attendees despite competing hotel attractions.
Civil Governor Senor de Castro acting with General Ludlow issues a Havana order forbidding firing of guns or firecrackers in public streets, crowd gatherings after 6 30 p m, closing theaters and cafes by 7 p m, bans devil-costumed dances and related meetings, and warns of severe punishment for violators to prevent Cuban Spaniard or Spaniard American clashes.
Word from Shanghai arrives of Petrel cruising to San Francisco with Ensign George S. Fermer among the dead. He had battled at Manila, then suffered stomach trouble that progressed to paralysis, ending his service aboard the gunboat.
In Washington on December 29 Brigadier General Sanger with a 50 man headquarters unit, the Second brigade hospital with 40 attendants and 37 nurses, and the Twelfth New York volunteers totaling 1,150 men have arrived from Columbus, Georgia. They will board the transport Manitoba for Matanzas, Cuba.
The four days' session of the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science opened today at Columbia University New York. Delegates from across the United States are in attendance. The program centers on special subject headings in scientific disciplines.
Marietta Ohio December 29 Granite Oil company struck a giant gas well estimated at over 20 million gallons. The well lies three quarters of a mile from the Big Panther and on the Alderman tract between Cornwallis and Whiskey Run fields in West Virginia.
Admiral Sampson arrived from New York and is confined to his room with a slight grippe. Physicians expect a quick recovery within a few days.
Duluth testimony claims rheumatism stems from diseased kidneys and that Dodd’s Kidney Pills cure the ailment. Patrick Welch alleges three boxes cleared years of torment from rheumatism and heart disease. Pills sold by druggists for fifty cents a box, six for two fifty, or by mail from Dodds Medicine Co. Buffalo, N. Y.
Attention is called to the excellent service of North-Western Line to California and the favorable rates for single and round trip tickets this season. Best accommodations in first-class or tourists sleeping cars. Runs daily. Personally conducted coast car parties weekly to California and Oregon. Choice of many zones without extra charge. Details from Chicago & Northwestern Ry agents.
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