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Dinner Daggers

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Parent Issue
Day
3
Month
January
Year
1889
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

The newest tliing in dinner favors 0 a jewclcd dagger, not a papier mache affair nor yet a stage weapon, but a keen bladcd dagger, wfaich, Í your ncighbor at dinner bc uot to your lifcing or prove tiresome in conversation, you may use upon hiin wiih spcedy and fatal effect. In the mean time, no murderous tendency taking possession of you, you are expeeted to use this weapon to cut up your meat. The fasliion is an expensive one, because it ia important thet tho hilt bo jeweled. Without the sparklc of tho gem to grntify one's astlietic tasto tho glitter of the steel will Btill have somo tliint; l:cking. Truc, there is the possibility of pasto jewels, and if this savage fashion growa doubtless dealers in Rhine stones will mark an advance in trade. No doubt a dagger drill tuight be invented to follow the repast, when the playfully inclined mijjht smito the steel together. Thus does civilization advance with mighty stnues.

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Subjects
Old News
Ann Arbor Register