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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1886
Page
1
A poem recalls a cheerful printer in a school setting. The figure sits on a stool and smiles at boys walking to school. He clips, pastes, writes headlines, and creates a lively display, enjoying playful work and a Sunday school scene.
A penniless young man seeks guidance from two married friends about marriage on a $10 a week salary. They recount how a wife named Sissie helped them arrange a cheap three-room apartment, purchased basic furnishings for $34, and lived frugally, showing happiness can come from prudent budgeting and affection.
English inventor J. A. Kendall of North Ormsby introduces a battery that generates electricity from hydrogen produced by heating platinum. The device promises power from coal or other fuel without steam engines, claiming a ton of coal could yield three times the energy of the same fuel in a steam engine and dynamo.
A fragment discusses Alphonse Karr on a tiny moth named Tineida epigraphia praising its ornate gold and silver wings with an undeciphered inscription. It adds a quip about three wedding dresses for French women and contrasts vanity with hunger.
A humorous portrait of a refined young woman with Vassar schooling and literary taste. She flaunts culture and knowledge from geology to quadratics while charming suitors, yet the speaker hopes she finds a genuine partner in a quest beyond merchantable life.
An Englishman offers 2500 dollars for an economical safe coal mining explosive substitute. The St. Paul Herald quips that no explosive yet exists to outwork a mother-in-law’s married daughter, and declines the prize.
The McGushes enjoy a domestic routine with household cleaning and decor. Rosalind notes worn portieres and frequent rearrangements while her mother stresses the portieres’ enduring familiarity and hints at daily cellar kitchen chores from Monday to Saturday.
A Detroit Free Press reflection argues women bear more daily cares than men and need a vacation. It notes modern life intensifies demands on households and housekeepers cannot fully rest at home, urging husbands to allow their wives occasional time away from duties.
Long summaries discuss life for domestic workers in New South Wales and England, noting favorable conditions in Australia, freedom, and sending earnings home. It then recounts two Webster anecdotes about his social gravity and a New York campaign, followed by notes on British mining labor, Chinese culinary maxims by Yuan Tsu tsui, and Chinese dining rules emphasizing service and balance in taste and presentation.
The article notes how an Australian girl's modest annual wage compares to higher wages in Ireland and England and her tendency to spend lavishly on hats and velvet mantles. It illustrates how a servant or mistress may blur social distinctions through expenditure on fashion.
A compact aphorism asserts that revenor stands as the only debt deemed improper to repay, framing moral or financial obligation in stark terms. The statement presents a stark value judgment on debt and responsibility.
The article describes the early life of an oyster from a minute larva to anchoring on a substrate, noting its growth in summer with a fragile carbonate of lime layer forming as it expands its shell. It mentions oyster shells used as anchors and symbiotic growth behavior in warm months.
The piece chronicles Ward, born in Salem Massachusetts, who joined the French army in the Crimea, killed a captain in a duel, later engaged in business in Vera Cruz, and finally rose to command the Foreign Legion in China for the Chinese emperor. He married a high ranked Chinese woman, refused to renounce Christianity, became a mandarin, and died leading a reconnaissance at about 36 or 37.
The London Figaro recounts how Victor Hugo kept Angora cats, first Gavroche and then Gavroche II, in his Paris home. Gavroche II, mourning Hugo, remains with relatives and friends after Hugo’s death.
A Hewes street mother praises her son for giving Lizzie the large peach, contrasting selfishness with generosity. The boy explains he preferred the wormy peach and did not want the big one, yet the mother emphasizes the virtue of giving.
Miss Ethalinda DeWiggs and her companion study engravings and discuss the Diet of Worms noting odd foods of old times. They muse on how such diets began with chestnuts, while contrasting pity for the low with envy for the high.
The Mechanical World notes iron chimneys are rare outside small boilers and hard to access sites. When used they’re bolted to stone bases and may be unsightly, often temporary, with limited 40 to 50 year life. Proper brick lining is advised for durability and safer draft, plus annual paint to prevent oxidation.
An odd rabbit chase near Hohokus New Jersey ends with the dog badly injured as the rabbit squeezes through two saplings. The hunter watches from a distance and the rabbit escapes into the thicket while the hound limps home. The tale ends with a quip about truth and size of lies.
A study reviews global population statistics showing women live longer than men across species and humans. It notes higher male mortality from diseases and risk factors, with women enduring longer and often marrying men scarce in the population.
A German paper proposes a formula for luminous signs using forty parts pulp ten parts gelatin one part bichromate of potash and ten parts phosphorescent powder to produce a glow in the dark usable for signs and related displays.
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