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Newspaper
The Democratic Press
Location
Eaton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1892
Page
4
A collection of light quips and aphorisms from various papers, including jests about marriage, professions, and social manners. The snippets mix humorous exchanges, travel observations, and satirical lines, reflecting late 19th or early 20th century wit about daily life and public figures.
A wounded Union soldier recalls a near death at Stone River where a Bragg shell wounded him in three places. He describes lying among dead comrades, a camp follower robber, and a Confederate to his aid who later saved his life by shooting the would‑be robber. He never learned the helper’s name.
In a rough mining camp, actor Jack Langrishe faced a grim problem when no skull for Hamlet’s graveyard scene could be found. A committee planned to use a Chinese worker as the skull, hoping a mule skull would serve as Yorick. The plan backfired and Langrishe performed with the mule’s whitened skull in place, as the Chinaman watched from the audience.
A Long Island woman has not left bed in thirty years, prompted by a vow to wed before her nineteenth birthday. The piece also explains the death watch ticking, identifying a small beetle that produces the sound at night and lives in wood, with details on its life cycle and behavior.
Bogy the telegrapher, famed from Boston to San Francisco and New Orleans to Toronto, survives a fierce thunderstorm when a bolt hits near his Pittsburg office. He plugs the switchboard to save the line, endures flame and shock, then resumes work with a shaved scalp intact and no further injuries.
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