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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1898
Page
7
A garbled miscellany of quips and scenes unfolds with misread names and odd phrases. A man on a road debates strength versus infirmity then wanders toward a cliff, waking to blame supper. A burglar alert interrupts, a misheard attic quest ensues, and a political punchline about straw votes and misfortune closes the fragmentary sketch.
A collage of fragments recounts campfire humor about Grant and Sheridan in Havana with a famous cigar prank that nearly felled Grant, plus a travelogue on a Sikh regiment parade, and a feature on Dahomey Amazons at the World’s Fair. The piece blends humor, military notes, and exotic portraits.
A naturalist asserts each thread of a spider’s web contains about five thousand separate members. He says twenty eight thousand spiders would be needed for a pound of thread for a year’s supply. The length of the thread is unspecified, but it could wrap around the world several times.
In a satirical skit a farmer laments McKinley era prosperity yet notes Alaska wheat prices spiking. A cafe scene shows Sir Kipling reading the news as a suggestive napkin and butter tress amuse a traveler. The piece mocks politics, media, and rural greed with dialect humor and pointed quips.
A garbled Chicago Record clipping merges a doctor joke about boosting business with a quip about Queen Victoria owning sixty pianos. A gargoyle characterremarks that Victoria’s name is absent from piano advertisements.
A Chicago Record humor item mocks urban science rhetoric with a quip about throwing a man into a lake and blaming humidity rather than heat for public complaints. The exchange satirizes exaggerated claims about climate effects.
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