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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1884
Page
4
Robert Louis Stevenson in The Silverado Squatters describes a mountain journey with Kelmar a shrewd Russian Jew and a lively boy as their guide. The trio, aged and headstrong, chase odd sights and delay at every turn, wandering for hours while the boy leads them toward a glow-worm illuminated peak at night.
A humorous meditation on kings and crowns from Texas Siftings. The piece contrasts regal myths with human quirks, imagining kings in ordinary settings and noting the impracticalities of pomp. It playfully critiques royal ritual and headlines how rulers would fare in everyday situations.
Mr. Gould recalls birthplace Roxbury Delaware County born May 27 1836 and his youth on a dairy farm. He describes schoolwork at 14 a country store clerkship and self taught surveying starting with Ulster County mapping earning seven shillings and later $500 for a county map and $5 000 from Delaware and Albany County maps.
A muscular man confronts a policeman on Michigan Avenue claiming threats of violence after an alleged insult about cabbages and green vegetables. He recalls a series of taunts as he walked from the Postoffice to City Hall and vows to defend himself if called out again. He warns of a looming roar like a cyclone if anyone shouts summer squash.
A Detroit office worker sorting five thousand circulars for a new household patent is called away. A lawyer schemes to reward a boy who stamps them all and mails them, provoking the man's fury when he discovers the stamps totaled three cents per circular. Montana cattle expansion noted separately.
In a humorous tale Gilhooly notes the Widow Flapjack’s polite waiter who removes a hair from soup with a fork and boots, returning the soup unbothered. Separately an Indianapolis inventor works on a new electric headlight for locomotives claimed to illuminate a mile of track brilliantly.
A collage of curiosities and numbers: a Delaware farmer harvests 33 tons of clover from seven acres. U S school counts by state. a French Merino ram yields a 623 pound fleece. Adams colite found in Missouri. Dr. Garnett once treated Judge Black. draft horse prices rise abroad. Austrian road guards women equal pay. a Coney Island boy hoards corks. a Washington clerk runs a faro bank. a paper steamboat on the Ohio River. a Kentucky tree yields large lumber. C P Huntington’s rise from poverty. a Rocky Mountain glacier found. Colorado districts short of women. Mexico plants 2,000,000 trees. convict Jim Smith earns large wages. fashion critiques and telegraph progress. English longevity stats. shipping versus railroad value. San Antonio jail riot and kangaroo court.
Matilda Snowball tells Amanda Crow she left the Vergers because Mrs. Yerger grew weak and her silk dress no longer fit. She notes wages were paid but no bacon, accusing Mrs. Yerger of diminished circumstances and a theft of groceries.
Jesse George of Hickman County, Tenn., was the first man in the state to raise peanuts. He made his first crop before the war about 180. Planting and plowing have changed since then. Tennessee now yields about 600000 bushels, about two thirds white variety.
A collection of light anecdotes and quips ranging from students and exams to fashion, weddings, insuring the deaf, and social banter. It mixes mishearings, visits, flirtations, and village wit with brief vignettes about a dragon of humor in everyday scenes.
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