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...Jacob Carp...
Throughout the week Berliners gradually resumed their normal health and spirits after a period of torpor induced by the consumption of the following yuletide viands, as estimated by Der Tag: 3½ million pounds of meat, chiefly geese and heavy cuts suitable for roasting; slightly under one million pounds of carp, the traditional and indispensable dish of the German for Christmas Eve; 4 million eggs; 1 million pounds of sugar; 125 tons of fruits and nuts; and "at least 210 million marks' worth of beer and wine...
...Middletown, N. Y., a stream overflowed, covered with water the garden of one Louis Bell so that, in the night, a 15-lb. German carp slank into his yard, began to feed upon the carrots, the asparagus. Bell rushed out, beat the carp to death with a spade...
...Carp-shaped Long Island has ten Congressmen and nine of them are Democrats. But the tenth is a Republican by great odds. Robert L. Bacon, son of the famed financier, Secretary of State, Ambassador, was elected to Congress by the First New York District (Long Island) with a plurality of 48,800, the greatest plurality ever received by a Congressman in a contested district in that state...