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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1887
Page
14
A long excerpt contrasts Indian thrift with Western luxury, detailing frugal living, minimal clothing, simple meals of millet or rice, and strict religious guidance. It notes low incomes, no meat or alcohol, self-built huts, and a disciplined lifestyle. The passage also references ballet and acrobatic feats as observed by modern critics.
The Detroit Tribune notes that even with extensive practice a girl named Um Jess cannot escape a coryphean fate. She is trained in dancing and ballet from an early age but remains restricted to infantile roles, never rising beyond a coryphé.
A New York Sun tale recounts Roscoe Conkling in a theatre when a passerby’s hand brushes him. He recalls a real divorce case where a wife’s large hand with a cigarette led a flirtation to end in a divorce after misidentifying another woman’s touch in darkness.
An assortment of adage style lines on professions and conduct. It notes that accidents happen within families and cautions about vanity in cosmetics, birth leading to more, borrowed clothes not fitting, domestic strife, business tricks, spying via telephones, extremes meeting, a shoe mantra, and legal counsel wisdom. The piece concludes that it takes all sorts to make a world.
In a domestic exchange the husband and wife debate the time a new comet by Professor Brooks rises, with hiccups and comic asides. The fragment notes a reference to the first cotton factory in America at East Bridgewater, Massachusetts.
Ben Perley Poore quotes Andrew Ellicott on Capt Lynch the originator of lynch law. Ellicott recalls Lynch describing swift punishment without courts, whipping suspects to extract confessions, and hangings by tying a rope to a horse and a tree, Leaves a chilling account of extrajudicial punishment as justified by civil authority.
Queen Victoria met a Scottish laird in Perthshire who challenged her use of the term pretender. He insisted the Bonnie Prince Charlie was their king, and she confessed Stuart blood in her own veins. The exchange amused her and softened her view of Charles Edward’s line.
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