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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1889
Page
2
A Florida farmer near Sampson Lake reported buzzards gathering around a live alligator carcass. One bird’s foot was caught, leading to its foot being bitten off for release. Inside the alligator’s stomach lay a large alligator turtle that had been swallowed while alive, the turtle creating a hole in the hide to grab its prey.
The Philadelphia News describes Deer Park as home to Backbone mountain mountaineers with oxen and primitive sleds, Meadow and Orange mountains hunters living in tog cabins for a century, and itinerant mountain Nimrods who barter little. It contrasts their crude tools with modern life three miles west of the president's daughter’s cottage.
A visitor recalls a peculiar local custom in Shepherdstown West Virginia where neighbors hold outdoor picnics called soups. Guests bring dressed chickens, kettles boil vegetables and chickens into a jelly like mix, and young couples kiss when their spoons click. The tradition dates back to an old Stonewall Jackson command unit that still reunites annually.
A Georgia boy roaming southern woods captured thirty rattlesnakes and kept them alive in bottles. He lured them with candy, fixed their gaze, then used a stick to shove them into bottles. The snakes later swarmed the yard while the boy danced, turning the garden into a rattlesnake display.
Explorer Lumholtz reports from a remote tract north of Townsville that cannibals prefer foreign flesh and view white men as salty delights. He describes social life, marriages bought with tobacco, and the men’s focus on hunting while feuding stems from women’s roles.
A local anecdote describes a horse in Crowberry’s box standing on hind legs with forefeet on a high window ledge to look outside. The tale illustrates the creature’s idle mischief and curiosity while confined.
A newspaper reprints three parrot stories to discuss whether parrots merely imitate or possess reason. A New Orleans parrot imitates by bowing to its mistress and mimicking “That’s it rub polly’s head.” In another tale the bird mockingly answers when offered plums. A third parrot resents pigeons invading its domain.
A returning explorer reports finding Indians practicing cannibalism in northwestern Ontario. Near Albee Lake an elder reportedly ate seven of her grandchildren, with a father escaping to alert the chief. At Quinze Lake a full blooded Kan had killed and eaten four sons before being shot by his fifth son.
In Kent, two women joined at the shoulders, Mary Chuikhurst and another, died after illness and were buried at Liddenden. Their joint will bequeathed a share of land at Biddenden to the parish, yielding rent for charity. The gifts include small sums, rolls, a gravestone, and a bearing bas, distributed to parish poor attendees.
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