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Newspaper
The Democratic Press
Location
Eaton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1893
Page
4
A compilation of quips and jokes from various papers including Yonkers Statesman and Washington Star. The pieces cover faux proverbs and playful lines on manners, marriage, dress, clocks, and social teasing. Several bylines reference notable publications and the items caricature daily life with light satire.
A sprawling extract surveys tiger trapping methods in Malaysia for export, a vivid colonial hunt memory, and then shifts to legal procedure notes from an assize court. It also covers new British destroyers, a Russian portable boat, Monte Carlo life, and a medical note on local anesthesia using cold or saline injections.
A long excerpt discusses outdated beliefs in luck and omens, condemning superstitions about Friday, nails, chairs, and death omens. It laments modern Enlightenment for erasing such ideas and urges society to ignore these beliefs as relics of dark ages. Article cites Harper's Bazar and critiques superstition’s social cost.
A humorous explainer from youth literature divides spellers into strong and weak types. It cites examples of deliberate misspellings to illustrate the trait. It also notes teasing for weak spelling and recounts unrelated local curiosities and a family scene ending with a tavern anecdote.
A Philadelphia Times tale recalls a 120 year old alligator known as Shorty in Gabriel Montaigne’s bayou land seven miles south of Thibodaux Louisiana. A hunter killed the beast after its famed deformed eye reached the brain. its burial mourned by the Montaigne family. The piece blends local lore with a digressive note on an exchange editor’s woes.
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