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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1890
Page
7
Han Wert Bulletin lists John A. Arnold & Co as editors and proprietors with Van Wert, Ohio. The brief header repeats the masthead and location, indicating the newspaper name and ownership.
The dialogue portrays a fair Rosalie challenged by a deceitful heart test. A suitor questions fidelity and exclusive love while the fairy demands absolute truth. The speaker defends honesty and questions the maid’s own claims to beauty and virtue.
Aunt Susan Johnson, a strong, loyal cook with four grown children, marries widower Tibbs in a rural Virginia church. The ceremony unfolds with local quirks and humor as the couple, supported by Nellie and Mrs Freeman, navigates a candlelit rite, elder mishaps, and a communal collection for the minister.
Aunt Susan escorted to a cab after a bridal supper at a cabin where Mr Tibbs awaited. His many children roamed the table while the white satin dress lay in a linen wrapped chest. Tibbs is dead, and Susan now supports the family with her washing.
Prince Kropotkine in Nineteenth Century describes parrot behavior across regions. He notes parrots gather nightly in India with jays and crows and recounts Australian cacadoos using reconnaissance before field plunder. The piece highlights social bonds, long life via society, and human impact on parrots' survival.
A caustic look at dueling bans in Europe notes France’s satire of the code of honor as nations abandon the practice. Paris cabs fail, Berlin land values surge, and telephones spread across Europe and America. Reports on public health, crime, and natural events follow, including island volcanism and depopulation in the South Seas.
A playful exchange about how the earth absorbs water. A pupil jokes about a lap of earth, comparing it to how a dog laps water, prompting a brief classroom pun in a Texas setting.
Farmer Barbour challenged Sterling Connecticut tax rules claiming exemption for blindness. He testified he could mow hoe and load hay but is stone blind and the court found his proof satisfactory to a judge and jury.
A quotation from America quotes Dashley saying he pursues daily innocent amusements and recounts an incident where he refused to bow to a acquaintance carrying a bundle, highlighting individual independence.
The narrator describes a Chilean railway trip from Los Andes to Valparaiso in a modern Spooner car, noting cosmopolitan passengers and Anglophone influences. At Limache, vineyards near La Armeneta are visited as crowds greet arrivals and locals observe trains arriving on a sunny Chilean day.
Theodore Child writes in HaCk Magazine about Olive-skinned Creole and flaxen Anglo-Saxon youths, black-eyed Chilean maidens, blue-eyed English girls, and Spanish-speaking children in a bustling, well dressed, healthy community. He notes families of ten or more children and describes an image of civilization admired by European travelers.
A keeper recounts raising a mother garter snake that birthed twenty seven infants in one night. The baby garter snakes feast on earth worms, with several instances of dramatic feeding behavior. The author notes young garter snakes may rely on earth worms while adults feed on toads and frogs.
Reports from the steamer Arago describe renewed eruptions on several Alaskan volcanic islands near St. Paul and Oonalaska. Bogoslav activity may be triggering unrest at Aukatan and Unamak, with natives fleeing homes as smoke, lava, and sparks appear.
The piece notes Greek fire was guarded by the Greeks and magnified by ignorance of soldiers. It cites Commander Barber as favoring saltpeter as the essential ingredient, supported by modern chemistry, explaining its hiss and roar as oxygen from saltpeter.
In a light exchange from a satirical piece, Mrs. Sawse jokes about hopes for a market savvy wife and a husband who can carve well. Mr. Sawse, six months after a noted event, responds with a wry aim for a decent carve. The dialogue captures wit and domestic life.
The dialogue presents a wry exchange about sound in a forest setting. A guide and hunter discuss whether trees make noise, invoking the idea of a howling wilderness as a literary motif.
A Detroit Free Press excerpt describes a street exchange about tomatoes peaches and a versatile recipe. The dialogue covers a chow chow recipe using tomatoes cabbage onions peppers horse radish red peppers carrots celery parsley eggplant cinnamon currants and suitability for mince pies.
Carl Hess, a German naturalist, proves by microscopic study that the mole’s eye is perfect in all essentials. He argues the organ is not blind or merely short sighted, despite its tiny size of about 11 by 9 millimeters, and that its refraction matches that of a normal mammal eye.
The New York directory lists 2,824 Smiths, including 113 plain John Smiths and 122 John Smiths with initials. The Brown family appears 1,639 times, with 50 Brownes, down 7 from last year, hinting the surname’s decline alongside fashion trends.
A comic exchange shows a customer asking for a two cent stamp and the pharmacist confirming delivery. The scene ends with the customer noting the need for cheaper postage and a dig at a newspaper for misinformation from the Boston Herald.
Reminiscence recalls General Butler in New Orleans orchestrating a covert Confederate flag swap. He schemes to obtain a finished flag from a wealthy hostess by using his carriage and a ruse, exposing a spy among the sewing circle. The tale ends with a wary exchange and a hard farewell between two men.
Major Clifford Thomson recounts a perilous moment during the Chancellorsville campaign when General Pleasanton directed a gun line to fire low as Confederate troops approached. Thomson rode out under heavy fire, guiding his horse through the flashes amid roaring artillery and a rebel yell, then confirmed the danger to Pleasanton who laughed with a grave twinkle in his eye.
Rene Bache reports on disabled veterans employed around Washington's Capitol. Seventeen maimed soldiers serve as doors and messengers in the House and Senate, many with lost limbs from Civil War battles. Some receive pensions or artificial limbs. party balance appears equal, with seven Republicans and seven Democrats among the maimed on the House roll.
A witness description from Century of a Fourth of July celebration inside a Confederate prison stockade at Macon. Officers and sailors shared sparse comforts while ragged captives cheered a silk national flag raised in a central building before guard interference. Mention of Lt. W. H. Shelton and veteran soldier Wan J. Brooks.
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