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Newspaper
The Democratic Press
Location
Eaton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1895
Page
4
A collage of quips and anecdotes from various newspapers including tales of poets, manners, divorces, and everyday wit. The snippets feature playful exchanges, ironic observations, and puns attributed to editors and comic characters, reflecting late 19th to early 20th century sentiment and social humor.
A New York Herald feature describes how large hotels feed and house about 400 staff daily, with meals supplied by special cooks and non guest tables. Staff live in basement eating rooms, with four strict grades from officers to laborers, and strict distinctions in service and dining. A Connecticut farmer in Ledyard reports destroying a bold owl that attacked his farm, snaring a twelve pound gobbler after repeated thefts of hens and chicks.
Two Brooklyn girls crowding parcels hat boxes and bundles into oversized sleeves staged a clever alibi on the Fourteenth Street elevated. As they rode, items slipped and fell. by Park Rise they exited with sleeves bulging like balloons leaving onlookers green with envy.
The Tremont temple in Boston uses terra cotta blocks around steel girders, strapped with iron and covered by Windsor cement and expanded metal lath to create two dead air spaces. This rich insulation aims to keep steel from warping under heat, as 300 degree rises can shift columns and 508 degrees could ruin the structure. Exterior corridors use terra cotta blocks and expanded metal lathing bound by angle irons to secure plaster.
A Russian named Donent trained hundreds of rats to act as railway passengers in a circling track scenario. A station master rat, porters, and three carriages labeled first, second, and third class hosted groups of rats guided by clockwork engine and trained by feeding them bread at breakfast.
A young New York couple renting a Cherry Valley farm is frightened by a talking turkey ghost story. The farmer showed a brutal method to stun a turkey and a gobbler reappears naked in the ice box, terrorizing the cook and guests.
The Philadelphia Press ridicules the craze for room temp cold baths on winter mornings. It notes a faint laborer living on corned beef and cabbage could barely muster the energy to tie boots, warnings five city men out of ten would be harmed by such cures. The piece condemns the display of vigor as affectation and warns against chasing sham vitality.
An eyewitness details a ticket scam at Christopher Street station where a man shifts money for another’s ticket and misses his train. The piece then describes the industrious Chinese miner at Lansell's 140 shaft, detailing gold recovery methods with quicksilver and blankets, praising perseverance amid hostile local sentiment.
A science note reports Lindsay Johnson’s English study finding domestic cats usually have circular pupils, shifting from lines to circles with light changes, contrasting with common beliefs of slits. Tigers and larger cats show similar variation. atropine keeps pupils circular. The piece adds jokes from a Salt Lake City man about a talkative judge and humorous riffs on songs and social life.
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