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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1894
Page
2
Special correspondence from New York reports on featherbone dress distenders and hats, lauding natural drape over artificial hoop skirts. It highlights silk gowns with intricate plaits, lace, and color, plus an Eton jacket with a versatile, graceful cut suitable for both young girls and grandmothers.
Curious articles from Washington Star and Blackwood's Magazine describe natural oddities and scientific curiosities. The piece notes fossil-like concretions, microscopic quartz threads rivaling steel, and cobweb experiments, then shifts to sponge diving in Greek waters, Sheridan’s School for Scandal manuscript, and portraits of rulers in horse and human faces. It closes with a local claim about men becoming vain and carrying pocket mirrors.
A New York attorney described a bold fraud where a sick man was duped into signing a forged will by a stand in clerk. The impostor thwarted the genuine will, the sick man died, the bogus will nullified, and the real heir received the estate despite the deception. The attempt illustrates a fierce family dispute and legal intrigue.
A collage of curiosities and snippets from various sources includes a colonial tale about names for peanuts in different states, a Scandinavian myth about woman made from elm and ash, notes on steamship steering by a finger, a remark on rabbinical titles and Babel languages, a Victorian garden notice, a thought on cooking as pre-digestion, and a note that federal law assigns each state a duplicate brass Troy pound from the U S government.
A brief comic vignette records a child noting a newborn with blinking eyes and a wobbling routine. The neighbor asks about the baby while the girl explains the infant reacts inconsistently to being laid down, hinting at quirks in its functioning.
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