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Newspaper
Whitewater Register
Location
Whitewater, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1857
Page
1
A crude dialect poem attributes a minstrel tune to a Black performer, with lines about a ruler of language, woods, possums, goblins, and dancing frogs. The piece includes racially charged caricature and music imagery framed as a rural ethnographic display.
A. B. a single man, asks how to abate nuisances from a parade of commissions and odd errands during travels from Neufchatel to Paris and London. He catalogues absurd encounters with Madame Verdier, Lady Fanfare, Madame de Lawbert, and others, detailing comic misadventures with dental models, muff and tippet boxes, Ivy shrubs, and a poison scare while clearing his name of crime and police suspicions.
The article surveys eating customs across nations, noting Maldivian secrecy at meals, sociable Philippines diners, Chinese banquets with shared dishes and ivory sticks, Otietan family meal separations, and American Indian host hospitality. It describes Paris grain regulation, the Grain Hall, police oversight, and fixed bread pricing to prevent famine hoarding and ensure fair profit.
A detailed horticultural note on cauliflower and broccoli varieties, sowing and transplanting times, and winter protection. It covers early, late, and Asiatic types, with advice on watering, bed preparation, frame and hot-bed use, and methods to extend harvests through frost. It notes English practice, late autumn crops, and regional differences for optimal head formation and flavor.
A muddled excerpt discusses weather effects on vegetation and crop prospects. It mentions late warm weather, past winter cold, spring dryness, and farmer uncertainty about whether crops will grow well. Names, dates, or locations are not available in the readable text.
A brief comic anecdote describes a young woman in our city seeking her father's consent for an engagement she cannot proceed with, then reveals she cannot elope. A Wiltshire wager about a Quaker and a fox yields a witty moral, with a closing line on excess and hidden treasure.
The Toronto Leader recounts a secret House session in which Hon J H Cameron teased the “poisonous democratic tree” growing in the province. He mocked the unprivileged forced into drinking saloons and surrounded by strangers, eliciting groans from the exclusives in the chamber.
An unprinted anecdote tells of a student who kept a barrel of ale in his room as a tonic advised by his physician. He explains he could not lift it at first but now carries it easily, and the president reportedly discharged him without reprimand.
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