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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1893
Page
3
A collage of jokes and quips from old papers features banter about love, marriage, and daily life. Scenes include a barkeeper and a married man debating pennies, a divorce quip in court, a tramp’s wood chopping ethics, a fire‑proof safe joke, and readers questioning newspaper portraits for misprints.
A self taught musician is praised as a distinguished figure in a Demorest's Marazine feature. The speaker notes the daughter’s independence and skill as a key point of pride.
A fragment describes a performer blending piano with rap, noting a pianist rapping on a keyboard and delivering a tune. The wording suggests a spellbound reaction to the rhythmic fusion, though details are unclear and the piece reads like an observational note.
The doctor showed sorrow as Perkins died, noting the physician had relied on Perkins for five years of steady income. The remark appeared in Karper's Bazar.
The Chicago Tribune notes a line about compensation favoring sycophants around a well-off aunt. A liver joke parallels Shakespearean themes, contrasting Bacon’s influence with Hamlet’s troubles, as quoted from Truth.
A dialogue fragment shows an employer questioning lateness and a boy recalling tasks for the day. The exchange suggests a domestic vignette about responsibility and guidance in a home or school setting.
Dialogue excerpt shows Mrs McCordle and McCordle in bed as he talks in his sleep, she criticizing him while he defends needing sleep to improve his opportunity. The scene remarks on nightly conversations.
The exchange features Miss Tootyfrooty and Mister Razzeerstrope debating a man with a fob chain, clarifying it is a new personal item rather than a supposed "spender."
A clipped review of barroom humor and social scenes sketches characters like Pacix Whisky the Hoosier Schoolmaster and Eastern Pedagogue. Dialogues touch on rain moral suasion and romance with a punch line about courting and parental restraint. The fragmentary notes resemble a comic column or theater vignette from a 19th century periodical.
A collection excerpt cites a boy in a harsh scene with a maternal parent and a child named Willie in a tense moment. It includes satirical quotes on ambition from Jobson and light humor about hill coasting measured in seconds and minutes.
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