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Newspaper
The Democratic Press
Location
Eaton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1894
Page
4
A collage of curiosities spans population comparisons, Cairo to Berlin theater translations, naval lore, fashion quips and manners. It notes Japan's population, corundum yields, the Paris Madeleine church drip, and a carnival of oddities from a Kansas storm tale to a French menu jargon amid hotel life.
A man waits for his wife at Union depot when two young women fear they cannot pay a dollar fare. He offers $1.15, learns the women are sisters, and later regrets believing they were strangers. Meanwhile an anecdote about a clever Indian elephant closes the piece.
A vestryman recalls a parable about clergy salaries two men in a parish. One earns 1500 dollars plus a rectory, the other 2000. During frequent pulpit exchanges to save sermon prep, a store chat leads to the claim that parish losses from exchanges amount to nine dollars and sixty cents per Sunday.
Slim-Why asks why Philadelphia is called the City of Brotherly Love and Slim-Bass responds with a joke about kindness. Regay and Angele appear in a dramatic scene as a fiancée faints and is revived with a small bottle, set within a Town Topics style vignette.
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