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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1883
Page
8
A whimsical scene follows seven dogs in a playful procession. Mooly cow and Bosey calf join a lively chase with their mothers. dogs chase, pling, dash, and leap as the group trails through a joyous outdoor race.
A compact reflection on providence and personal blindness. The speaker urges submission to a higher order, asserting that all creation is a hidden craft and that Heaven grants each soul its measure of blessing within defined limits. It emphasizes unity, immanence, and the limits of human insight.
A doctor recounts an early career marked by devotion and danger. A forged offense by rival Richard Somers leads to arrest and later freedom. The doctor’s personal life intertwines with danger as a jail-bird guide traps him in a dark house where the rival reappears, threatening him with ruin and force.
A captive recounts a brutal night with ruffians, freeing his wrists, using a chloroform-soaked sponge to incapacitate attackers, and escaping down stairs after fatally striking Sommers with a blackjack. He hides, then flees, unsure if Sommers lives.
Wealthy settler Mr Brown from Australia travels through bush to cattle posts in New Caledonia. He is invited to a native village by Chief Atai and survives an attempt to trap him by fire. Brown keeps calm, arms himself, and uses wit to force a daytime escape to safety.
A penny lunch scheme in Washington, started by Mrs. Jis with a clerks aid, provides meals for the hungry amid national hard times. Volunteers gather food from officials and donors, turning modest gifts into a steady aid, illustrating practical charity in a city with many unemployed and needy residents.
A late 19th century concern traces arsenic poisoning to scarlet blue stockings hat-linings gloves and other dyed garments. Reports note arsenic in dress fabrics underclothes and even a veil linked to a child's death. Calls rise for testing labeling and safer dyeing methods to curb the growing danger.
Andrew J. Green, walking toward the village, was swooped by a massive flock of sparrows that attacked with sharp bills. He fought them off, fell several times, and fled to the village exhausted with bleeding hands and torn coat.
A jealous husband feigns a death threat over his wife in Port Hope. She tests his claim by obtaining poison from a druggist and pouring a small amount in a wine glass. He pretends to drink, she warns others, and he finally confesses the stunt to avoid consequences. He ends up thoroughly cured by the ruse.
An European inquirer exposes a dental fraud in which native practitioners pretend to remove toothworms. A sharp gum cutting, a bamboo spatula, and concealed paper wrapped worms are shown to patients to claim cure. Live worms are displayed to maintain belief while powder or extraction kills most.
An anecdote recounted by Rev. James Freeman Clarke recalls Judge Parsons scolding Thomas H. Perkins for paying a fine to avoid jury service. The judge pressed Perkins to sit, noting that proper law administration permits ships to sail and that he must take his seat on the panel.
A compact account traces the origins of common terms from Pamphylia to Punch and Judy, bigot from Visigothic sources, Hamburg news, Gaza gauze, Atab Street etymology for tabby, Old Scratch and Old Nick demons, and the lime name Lima.
The article urges parents to curb squandering time by setting a strong example of industry, improving the home, and providing reading material. It warns idle youths risk becoming defective adults and urges nurturing discipline to reduce a growing class of triflers and street loafers.
The text urges constant practice to keep talent bright explaining that neglect dulls perception and slows reading writing and memory. It emphasizes physical and mental activity as well as spiritual exercises like worship charity and patience to maintain a well rounded life.
A fragmented clipping notes playful phrases about a tin kettle and a sealers tale. It mentions the press prevailing, a couple with a hug, and a remark on why American men grew up early, tied to straw hats and early frosts affecting hair.
A New York commission merchant provides detailed methods for packing eggs for shipment. Use long stiff barrels with layered straw and chaff packing to keep eggs intact, layering from the barrel ends toward the center and preventing shifting. Increase packing in winter, avoid new oat or chaff, and label counts per barrel. For small lots, mill-board partitions or baskets may be used, but a barrel remains best when quantity allows.
Robert Cross recounts methods of collecting India rubber in Brazil. He details tapping at dawn, cup placement, clay cups, and daily lower cuts, noting measurement, labor, and the risk of tree damage after repeated tapping. He observes crews, markets, and the potential for plantation efficiency.
The article explains how Manihot utilissima tubers are harvested and processed into pearl tapioca. It covers washing, pulping, washing again to extract fecula, drying, and sun bleaching, then forming granules in a cradle frame before final drying and cutting.
Louis John a ast was born in Neans on April 1780 and died in Minuteland near New York on January 27, 1851. Two reasons explain the sun’s larger apparent size at sunset: horizon comparison with objects and viewing through more moist air near the horizon.
Answers explain Anno Domini as time from Christ Incarnation but exact date unknown. The phrase originated with Col James Fisk in a Congressional exam. Flags are raised and lowered for distress with the flag typically at half mast. The dollar monogram, the pound sterling from Libra, sterling from Esterling traders, and pence from penny plural form.
The Illinois slang Sucker State came from suckers who drew water from artesian wells using reeds. Wisconsin as the Badger State references plentiful badgers. Pennsylvania as the Keystone State sits at the center of the original arch. Philadelphia’s name derives from the Greek for brotherly love. The tropical storm note cites ascent heating. stamps need only be enclosed if the writer asks a personal question.
A series of brief questions and statements on topics including New Year origins, protoplasm definition, dipping needles, Greenland as an island, legal phrasing puzzles, cold weather rainfall patterns, and monthly wet/dry rankings. Answers are provided in compact form.
A collage of quips and notices mixing proverbs, puns, and social snippets. It hints at marriages after engagement, moral anecdotes, a courtroom joke, and stray editorial asides. Contains scattered lines about a lawyer in Truckee and a clergyman with revolvers.
In Havre during the French Revolution Tallyrand sought aid in the New World. A stranger, Benedict Arnold, revealed himself as the only New World-born man who could claim no friends in America and confessed his treachery. The encounter haunts Tallyrand as Arnold’s infamy shadows his later years.
Notes on domestic foods include Washington cake doughnuts and green gooseberries for tarts. Recipes give steps for sugar butter sour milk eggs and flour with saleratus, plus doughnut frying and sugar coating. Gooseberry canning describes bottling simmering water sealing and storage for long keeping.
Read of Nineveh’s dimensions and wall strength, Babylon’s walls and gates, Ephesus temple height and years to build, the Great Pyramid size and base, and the labor force. Mentions labyrinth of Egypt, Thebes ruins, Temple of Delphi riches and Nero’s plunder, and Rome war encirclement.
A cautious lady tries to buy Dr. Oxen’s cough syrup but the druggist mishears and suggests Cox’s hive. She then wonders if Oxen has a relative, and the clerk finally lands on Dr. Bull’s cough syrup as the correct product. The comic confusion ends with the customer nearly fainting.
An Ae A Hampshire incumbent cites Pall Mall Gazette notes on misread marriage vows. He recalls the groom saying With my body I thee wash and with all my hurdle goods I thee a thou and a bride promising to take her husband to ave and toold from this day fortni t for bet terer horse for richerer power in health to love and y. The cleric notes women fare better than men in this service and wonders at the vow's meaning.
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