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Newspaper
Wooster Republican
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1891
Page
4
Special correspondent notes Washington life amid talk of a new cabinet, a reformed judiciary, and the Blaine era. He describes Foster’s desk work, the Press Club’s influence, Palmer’s Senate stature, and the civic bustle surrounding McKinley’s Ohio governorship bid.
Oscar Wilde depicts a nocturnal Thames setting with fog and barge imagery. A pale woman stands beneath gaslight as dawn breaks, while distant country wagons stir awakening streets and a bird sings atop glistening roofs.
A moneyed man at a social gathering questions the standard view of pyramid construction. He proposes ancient Egyptians made artificial stone from Nile mud hardened by similar processes used today and suggests pyramids were built in layers rather than hauled from distant quarries. The speaker cites Brugsch and Piazzi Smyth as authorities yet offers a theory of artificial stone manufacture.
A band of about 100 wolves roamed east of Lake Winnipeg in January and killed many Indian hunters. Reports describe men on foot, in trees, and on improvised platforms fighting the wolves. several hunters were killed or wiped out, with exact totals unclear.
A miscellaneous clipping recounts anecdotes of Eddie and jam with a moral lesson. It notes a physician recalling a mute man who began shouting during a hunt and then spoke clearly. It mentions Julius Caesar’s purported African coast proclamation and a wordplay on Pan in the Orchard. It also describes ancient beds and a Jefferson County farmer uncovering a subterranean lake.
Eugene F Ware of Kansas is highlighted as a leading poet and lawyer praised by W D Howells for humor and sturdy verse in Ironquill. Born 1841 Hartford. served as captain in Iowa cavalry. long Kansas political career. memorial poems and works like Washerwoman’s Song and The Tobacco Stemmer cited. described as healthy, vigorous, and broadly influential in the Mississippi Valley.
A collage of notable men and fortunes from origins in Britain and America. Mentions Dean Hoffman, Rev Sam Jones, Pasteur, Jon Browh, Lord Portsmouth, Senator Blackburn, Ex-Governor Houser, W R Hearst, Timothy Hopkins, and Andrew Carnegie. References to wealth, titles, and estates including Cluny Castle and vast lands.
Paris reports Alexander Harrison, famed for Le Crepuscule, as a leading American artist in Europe. A former U S Navy sailor born in Philadelphia, he has lived in Paris ten years, with a Paris atelier opposite Bouguereau. He shapes the Lazare school influence and guides Amelie Rives Chanter's study in Virginia.
A resident of Muncis Indiana preserves a Civil War flag that wrapped the body of General Lyon, the first Northern general killed in the conflict. The banner was carried by the Second Kansas regiment.
Rail industry notes estimate an average locomotive cost of $10 000 with over 1 100 000 railroad cars and 83 000 locomotives in the United States. The Erie Railroad restricts advertising to its own signs in stations. Russia experiments with metal sleepers while the Mexico City to Jalapa line claims the longest single connection at seventy two miles and eight hours on fast German day trains between Bretten and Ulm. Dining cars with eighteen seats, a kitchen and buffet are planned. A tourist car service operates four times weekly on Canadian Pacific via Great Northern to St Paul and Bellingham Bay and British Columbia. The New York New Haven and Hartford four track system extends 14 miles toward New Haven. SH Clark of Missouri Pacific is invited by Jay Gould to help manage bulk railroad affairs. A new line, the Pennsylvania Midland, is under construction from Stroudsburg to Scranton, backed by New York Susquehanna and Western in control of coal operations.
A collage of curious notes on delusions and data from bygone days. England faces delirium tremens mortality. The U S prints vast sums in money and stamps. Chicago Public Library boasts vast circulation. At Attoc Island Alaska and Maine coast share time zones. Britain shows high female labor share. Kang’s Kangxi encyclopedia stands largest. Berlin directory reveals common surname Schultz. White House dining room shows Caledonian decor. Mexican cession cost and gold yield details show early U S expansion.
Special correspondent reports Chicago’s World’s Fair grounds hum with activity. Sawmills feed a 4 million foot daily appetite for lumber as vast buildings rise including the women’s building and a grand central hall that dwarfs Philadelphia and Chicago landmarks. Workers toil by night under electric light as progress accelerates toward 1898 milestones.
Paul Belloni Du Chaillin born in Paris in 1885, became U.S. citizen at 21, remains elusive and itinerant. A Broadway publisher plans Northmen legends volumes for boys, and he may lecture on African travel in major U.S. cities this winter. He is described as a youthful, wiry man and a “bundle of nerves.”
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