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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1891
Page
1
New York reports Twain sold a new novel for 12000 dollars with serial rights and 1200 per Europe letter. Howells sold a novel’s serial rights for 10000 dollars. The largest serial sum was 15000 dollars paid to Mrs Burnett for a new novel, with Little Lord Fauntleroy not reaching that figure.
The Pennsylvania Railroad subjects every fifty cast iron car wheels to a severe test. One wheel chosen at random is placed flange down on a 1,700 pound anvil block and struck on the hub with a 140 pound weight from twelve feet. After eight blows or fewer causing breakage, the fifty wheels are rejected. eight blows without breaking means acceptance. The test wheel is supplied by the manufacturer in addition to the fifty ordered.
A Hazelton man named Williams on horseback struck what he thought was a black dog in the bushes. He chased the animal as it turned into a bear and wrestled to escape as the bear pursued near a steep hill. At the summit Williams and his horse gained ground, leaving the bear behind.
A white marble sarcophagus with a purple velvet coffin holds Prince Sigismund’s remains beside the mother figure with the dead child in the Potts dam chapel. A medallion portrait and an inscription memorialize Franz Friedrich Sigis mund Prince of Prussia born 1864 died 1866 with a Biblical epitaph.
Reported by Exchange the 1500 pound horse mackerel blocked a Kittery weir trapping divers after a four hour struggle. A harpoon freed the fish and it was towed out to sea. Also notes Whittier modesty his niece biography and Believing Paris holds few negroes mentions Eskimo death customs and a 19th century Middlesbrough Tees coal wagon sailing practice.
In a dense review the piece analyzes Porter’s census work on national and local debt from 1870 to 1890, noting per capita debt declines and waves of spending. It also covers remarks on women education, college culture, and women’s roles from Boston and Wellesley, plus a Christian devotional note on John 19 included as lesson material.
The piece argues campaigns should be educational not deceptive and urges fair use of facts with no prejudice. It questions distortions in argument and notes the need for clear logic and respect for opposing views. It also mentions Cardinal Gibbons as papal succession hopeful and a pendulum experiment at the Eiffel Tower to illustrate the earth's motion.
London Tit-Bits recounts Mrs Gladstone’s absentmindedness during a visit to the archbishop of Canterbury. The maid packed the bodice in the gown, a cashmere shawl stood in for the missing garment, and guests witnessed the bodice pinned to the skirt as she prepared to leave.
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