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Newspaper
The Democratic Press
Location
Eaton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1891
Page
4
A collage of humorous snippets and misheard lines from multiple papers, showcasing puns, proverbs, and social quips. The collection highlights light banter on wealth, manners, love, and daily life, with occasional vintage magazine asides and bid for editorial wit.
A San Francisco reporter recounts meeting the Seri, claiming 174 cannibal people on Seri Island near Mexico. He describes their appearance, living in low shrub houses or caves, trading albatross mats, and defending their island with poisoned arrows. He notes the tribe diminishing and possibly extinct in years. He also details a Mexico mining journey and a peculiar well near Stanwood with persistent gas and wind-driven air currents.
Mambrino Mohawk, a prized stallion of tall build and grand line, offered by N. Andrews at Village Stock Farm Routstown with reduced prices for patronage. Sale runs May to December with terms of 10 dollars in insurance and foal contingencies. mares can be viewed Sundays excepted at the Stable in Mogadore.
A tale from the Quakers features Me Moses W. a patient, gentle child who secretly builds a barn out of blocks. His brother Benjamin pressures him to follow rules, provoking a firm stand when Moses declares he will mind his own bidding and create his own barn.
A long, mixed report recounts Meissonier’s tiny 1814 painting and its path to fame and riches, noting a $150,000 sale after a series of bids and indicating the work’s dramatic rise from a small canvas. It also parodies New York society, mentioning the Smith family and a humorous tale about a spelling change into Plainsmith.
A corporal used a trick to identify a thief by ink blackening a tin dish and singling out the guilty man when all touched it except one. The untruthful soldier confessed after being exposed and received two dozen lashes. The corporal remains in service with a commission. A separate note from Georgetown Maine reports a man shipping smelts to New York received a 2 cent postage stamp as proceeds.
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