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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1891
Page
3
A collection of light verse and humorous musings from era prints. Includes A Sleighbell Jingle credited to Margaret Eytinge, a somber piece by Helen Granberry in Harper’s Young People, and comic verses about fashion and the typewriter tune. Also features a brief dialogue about a ball performance with Captain Cropper.
An exchange between a senior partner and a modest applicant notes the applicant would need to pack twelve sample trunks if hired as a traveling man. The applicant adds he always travels with his wife, highlighting a humorous constraint referenced in Clothier and Furnisher.
A New York Sun excerpt notes a strange contrast at Cleverton where residents attended a prize fight one night and a Wagner concert the next. The quip recalls the incongruity and crowds, while a joke on attendance lingers amid the tabloid chatter.
An old newspaper quip notes Rhymer as a wonderful poet likening him to a brother of the Muses. A reply says he wooed them all and they agreed to be sisters to him. The item also mentions a broken engagement and a quip about Tom Jones and Susie Brown over a horse sale.
In central Pennsylvania a college with military instruction stored four heavy cannons on campus for drill. Before commencement, several students loaded and fired them at night. The faculty questioned sophomore Chadd, offering leniency for confession, and he admitted hearing the reports. the faculty excused him after the defense. The tale includes a separate plantation tale about Tony the mill hand and fever epidemics among enslaved workers.
A New York Times passage portrays a man calmly methodically scanning a city directory for Tom This or Pat That while a tense crowd waits. The scene highlights patient scrutiny, deliberate spelling, and the pressure of uncovering a single name in a long list.
In an uptown exhibition hall a man, hat on and hands in pockets, calmly informs a demanding official to know whom he evicts next time. The confrontation ends with the official retreating, the man’s expression turning to stern disdain as he asserts he was hired to watch the hall.
An English doctor has devised a therapeutic smoking pipe that allows pleasant weed inhalation without nicotine reaching the system. It also supports inhalation of relevant medications when needed. The pipe’s multi chamber design robs smoke of toxins and cools it before reaching the mouth, offering health minded smokers practical advantages.
A Washington young man boards in a house famed for poverty and moves into a room once occupied by a medical student. Opening a closet reveals a skeleton. He jokes, calling it one of the lifeline boarders Mrs. keeps mention of. A hospital surgeon later notes the mangled victim from a gear accident.
A tall man with theatrical makeup roams the postoffice early morning mimicking a circus shouter. He announces cages of curiosities and animals drawing clerks to windows, while the watchman interrupts his pranks and the jokester exits with a final dramatic note.
A bashful young man admires a painting of an arctic scene as Miss Ida muses on harnessing reindeer versus lightning. He wonders aloud, and she notes the suddenness of the moment, suggesting to ask papa for guidance. The Chicago fragment captures a quiet, dreamlike exchange.
Three telegrams from a young man staying at Monaco show his health trip sending anxious pleas to his mother. The first asks for money after losing his pocketbook. The second reports finding the pocketbook and asks for funds. The third says the pocketbook was found but contains nothing of value.
Ethel confesses meeting Ediths fiancé in a dark hallway and being kissed, Edith responds with sarcasm about the hallway being very dark, capturing a parlour‑stage moral quandary in a brief dialogue.
Promoter announces seventh annual Harvest Home on December 1 1890 with dinners for 100 daily through May 1 at 23 cents each. Also lists extensive food and produce offerings, various condiments, and a medicinal salve for horses. Sold by L G Noyes, Warren.
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