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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1890
Page
7
A playful verse notes a poet postponing a kitten themed poem after discovering a rhyme. Helen C. Walden appears in St. Nicholas. The speaker plans to wait until the kitten grows into a cat and then complete the verse.
A Pike's Peak miner named Allan Brayton arrives in San Francisco with gold dust and a draft. In St Louis he fights to prove his identity to cashiers, insisting his name and tale. The crisis ends when his chest tattoo bearing Allan Brayton's name confirms him, securing his money and return home.
A St Louis Republic report recalls Hahrenholtz Bros of New York making boots from human skin in 1876. The boots, dark brown from tanning and heavier than calf skin, were not shown at the Philadelphia Centennial and were later rejected by Smithsonian official S V Baird for shelf space.
A Norfolk Stonington correspondent recalls a German silver tobacco box inscribed with a 138-30 Connecticut Code against tobacco use. Inside the lid a constable’s arrest image shows a chawing tobacc o incident with a Continental hat and family nearby. A child overhears, and the mother comments on deserts as centuries pass with chewing tobacco. Novelties in Photography notes at Crystal Palace exhibit lighter aluminum cameras and new shutters reducing vibration. A brief joke follows where a man confesses he never loves her more, a line from Van Dorn's.
In Delaware County tale from Zinny Gould's History recounts a Scotch settler who buried 500 guineas at Wright's Brook near Bloomville. A dying confession led a physician to seek the spot at Four Corners, but the treasure lay hidden beneath a plowed field now yielding wheat, eluding seekers for years.
A Parisian exhibit by painter M George Bertrand features jointed life puppets performing movements like living figures. The audience praised the display with violins, ballet dancers, and a Spanish dance, while critics note Bertrand’s pictures as less discussed than his puppet work.
William Black quotes a Payn passage where a heroine’s raven hair streams to windward in a gale. A reviewer notes the mismatch, but Payn replies that the heroine’s iron tonic electrifies her lair, causing it to float north regardless of wind, ending the objection.
In New York a guest insistence on tipping waiters is framed as un-American while others argue tipping is acceptable. The exchange highlights a cultural split over a longstanding dining custom.
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