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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1890
Page
3
A jumble of quips, jokes, and notices poking fun at social foibles. Includes lines about love, hair removal, hypocrites, lawyers, traders, newspapers, and mischievous exchanges, plus brief ads for cures and products. Various city items touch on labor, humor, and curiosities from multiple voices.
A Washington Star guest reports on Molokai leprosy residents living in a fertile valley under government care. He notes six Sisters of St. Francis, ongoing food and medicine support, and government-built homes. Leprosy causes gradual, painless decline with a seven year average from onset to burial. Origin theories include Captain Cook’s crew and prior Chinese laborers, with population shifts from 200,000 to 45,000 natives today.
The New York Herald notes that top lawyers command large sums with rare public disclosure. It cites Henry L. Clinton at 250000 for Vanderbilt will work and Choate possibly earning up to 300000 in a year, plus other high figures for Kahn, Davies, Parsons and firms like Evarts Choate Beaman.
The New York Dispatch notes rice is the world’s staple, feeding hundreds of millions and shaping diets across India, China, Japan, Siam, and Africa. It highlights heavy consumption in Burma and Siam, monthly grain use, and the beverage uses of rice in Siam, Japan, and China, with a caution that rice is mostly starch and water and yields fat rather than muscle.
Crowfoot Sapomaxiho, renowned Blackfeet leader of the Canadian Northwest, died at Gleichen Assiniboia Manitoba after a brief illness. He named Three Bulls as his successor in his will. A key mediator between Indians and whites, he helped the CPR resolve a dispute and stayed loyal to missionaries, influencing regional history for decades.
In Washington New Jersey during Forepaugh’s performance the Sioux chief Feathers-on-his-Hat was presented a silver medal by Professor Charlies B. Gordon of Philadelphia. Gordon and soldiers had been captured by the chief twenty four years earlier and allowed to depart after being spared. They met again recently in Camden and exchanged cordial greetings. Gordon delivered the medal in Washington and the chief answered with a peace pipe and moccasins.
A reflective aphorism notes that a person focused on self may bear the burden of grieving their own life and losses without outside support.
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