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Newspaper
The Warner Sun
Location
Warner, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1886
Page
4
A guest at a Jesuit novitiate recalls a hospitable welcome and a life of study prayer and community. He describes the austere dormitory chapel and refectory scenes the novices vows and years of formation from novices to theology and teaching.
Ben Perley Poore recounts a Fillmore era episode in Washington where Col. Rogers hosted a grand possum dinner for congressmen and allies. The party, in Rogers’s apartment above Mrs. Shackelford’s, featured alcohol, roasted potatoes, and four possums as the centerpiece, with Gen. Eaton, Felix Grundy McConnell, Beau Hickman, and press members present. A rival dinner order from Rotler’s later shifts sparked a late-night revelry that disturbed Mrs. Shackelford’s sleep.
A Hartford Courant defense argues middle parting of hair is neither effeminate nor masculine. It cites figures like Ingersoll Conkling and Potter to claim fashion judgment rests on what suits the wearer. The piece notes a dean who looks manly with a center part, contrasting a side part chosen by his wife.
A historical data note claims the number of idiots in the United States grew from 34,527 in 1870 to 6,1880, reflecting a dubious census claim and likely OCR error. No clear context or official source is provided.
The piece recounts Conant's failed hunt for his missing father, former Harper's Weekly editor Samuel Stillman Conant, detailing near-crossings in a Jersey City hotel and a cascade of likeness errors. It notes other cases of mistaken identity, including a Texas stock man, and observes that many disappear and resemble others, with a New England poorhouse contact and a Louisville sender.
Local histories describe the Long Island schoolhouse as plain and unadorned with no interior painting or plaster. Students supplied wood daily, cleaned rooms, and showed strict deference to teachers. Jamaica academy in 1792 required scholars to bow when adults entered or left the room.
A Paris Letter notes growing social demoralization in France, citing a notorious atelierthemed party where guests dressed in white shrouds and candles lit a coffin ice-pail as drinks. skeletal decor and revelry described, followed by a severed segue to a Ridder tank wagon scene near a prestigious club.
A Washington correspondent reports that among seventy six senators fourteen chew tobacco and fifty eight use it in some form, while among 825 House members only few abstain. More than half of southern senators both smoke and chew. listed chewers include Beck Call Edmunds Fair George Harris Hearst Jones Florida Logan Morrill Saulsbury Vance Voorhees Whith horne and Wilson of Maryland. nearly all also smoke.
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