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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1892
Page
5
A collection of old culinary instructions covering potato cakes with eggs and milk, apple cream with meringue, golden cream cake with coconut filling, sago or tapioca soup, vanilla sugar candy, and beef tea or HEF TEA method to ensure clear broths. Includes steps, proportions, and timing for each dish.
The piece extols swimming as a near flight, noting the swimmer rests on wave surfaces with ease, overcoming gravity through water pressure. It compares the swimmer's buoyant statics to bird flight, stating gravity is nearly suspended and atmospheric pressure is negated while on the water. It references philosophers and the elemental force aiding this motion.
A quotation on swimming as a ultimate dissolution and pleasure of natation notes many swimmers never grasping the thought, likening it to Monsieur Jourdain in Moliere who spoke prose unknowingly. The remark appears in a February Lip pincott's collection attributed to Hermann Oelrichs.
Early century reports recount Count Berowlaski and his sister Anastasia born in Poland attracting attention for extreme small size. At one year old the boy stood 14 inches tall, by age twenty he reached 33 inches, and at thirty he was 39 inches. The sister, seven years younger, could stand under his arm. The Count lived to nearly 100.
Colin Shackleford notes a 1288 Scotch Parliament statute cited by Chicago Tribune, claiming royal consent allowed women to speak to suitors and pursue marriage. If refused, a fine was imposed, with relief if the man proved betrothal to another. The piece links later calls for leap year based privileges to this history.
Two refined ladies study the Congressional Directory in search of Jerry Simpson while a vociferous young woman insists she would recognize him by his picture. The piece shifts to a London Saturday Review anecdote about Isle of Man wedding customs where brides and grooms stumble over responses at the altar.
From the Arizona Kicker editorial page the town's mayor explains his policy of dignifying office with white shirts and lace shoes, moving from spit tokens to crockery, and enforcing decorum for visitors while joking about rival editors, dog fights, and town governance.
An executive editor orders an extra page to publish the President's message as soon as received. The Herald editor and foreman rush the page to press, finishing before rivals who publish only fragments. The tale warns editors not to trust every report or confess unknown details.
An east bound train halted for safety as an old man with a Winchester on a mule asked if anyone had a Bible to spare. He claimed to have trapped eighteen Indians and planned to release them after reading them Bible chapters to reform them, then joked about returning to kill if no Bible appeared. The passengers pressed for more, while the old man pondered his plan and the fate of the trapped Indians.
The Chicago Herald recounts a long running family dispute, starting with a partition deed over a hill farm. Two brothers fought over timber and land, hiring gangs, triggering sheriff, militia, and deaths. One brother dies. the surviving elder remains, blind and deaf, unaware the feud has ended.
A passenger with pink whiskers recounts a plan to round up hostile Indians aboard a freight train. A committee collects a jug for whiskey to tempt the men, an old man vows to confront the crowd, and a conductor questions the tale of catching eighteen Indians as he rides away.
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