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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1883
Page
3
A Vanderbilt party at a grand mansion drew New York society, with observers estimating building value near a million and annual taxes around ten thousand. The ball ended amid broken flowers, scattered décor, and staff rushing to manage damage as guests departed, while commentary painted the night as a costly, extravagant spectacle.
A relief procession collected money and clothing after the Tet inundations. Spectators crowded windows as residents donated everything from furs to bank notes. A single lady reportedly discarded her valuables, including opulent fur robes and other ornaments, amid hardship, with donations totalling around $500 and valuables valued at about $5,000, though exact totals are unclear.
A New York Sun report from a Cooper Institute area barber shop notes a nearly empty Saturday as the barber and his assistant discuss gender and morality. The exchange touches on beauty, worth, and societal views in a quirky, pointed dialogue.
Nature is wasteful in generation, creating millions to yield few survivors. The female cod spawns millions of eggs, yet only a small fraction reach adulthood. acorns fall with vast waste, most eaten or wasted. Across life from ameba to man, most offspring perish, with only a scant few achieving maturity and usefulness.
An article discusses how poor shoe design and improper fit cause foot deformities and flat feet, citing Colonel Ziegler's Geneva congress findings. It explains the foot’s elasticity, issues from tight shoes, and that well fitting, properly shaped footwear can restore normal arches, with guidance on testing a perfect shoe fit.
Popular Science News notes Maine supplies most chewing gum and warns that some products are adulterated. A Boston Druggist Circular source says a petroleum firm supplied softer paraffinite for gum making, and a state-wide campaign urged widespread use.
A West Point debate over a Civil War sergeant named Dick Gower who led his company in the West. Lincoln ordered his appointment after Dick failed the formal exam but showed practical leadership and decisiveness under cavalry threat, earning lasting military distinction.
In a crowded city car a woman in a black and white shawl searches through straw for money she dropped. Passengers react with curiosity as others speculate about missing items while a conductor intervenes.
On Spring Garden street a streetcar crew and riders clue into a money theft on board. A woman loses a purse or coins, the conductor retrieves a large basket and passengers feign innocence as the hunt continues.
A remedy for cold feet recommends standing on tiptoes to strain foot tendons, rising slowly then returning to stance to boost circulation. Woolen stockings over thin cotton ones are advised to keep feet warm and prevent tenderness for sedentary workers and others exposed to cold.
Miss Maria Parloa leads a Market ing lecture at the College of Pharmacy on Twenty third street with a 400 pound dressed beef side. The butcher demonstrates cuts and prices while students, mostly women, ask questions about grades, cooking, and economical choices. The talk highlights choosing tougher cuts for stews and broths and the importance of buying meat in prepared portions.
A light tawny grizzly cub crawls from its nest, yelping as curiosity gathers. The dam mother calmly retrieves the cub by its nape and returns to her den, drawing her self away with a restful, convalescent grace before the crowd.
A traveling Dr Barthez falls ill and calls in a fellow practitioner who turns out to be an old servant. The servant reveals he learned medicine in Barthez’s service and now claims great skill. The tale ends with a critique of public gullibility and the pride of physicians.
Joaquin Miller recalls two Indian companions guiding a desperate elk hunt to feed starving tribes along the McCloud river. They trap a vast herd in a snow bound slope, kill many cows, haul meat to the starving stock, and guard it from wolves by a campfire feast. The two youths ride back toward the famine stricken camp with supplies.
George Holgate of 1562 South Jumiper Street claims the London government office blast shows a power far greater than dynamite. He says he has built four explosive devices and two burning machines sold to New York buyers in six weeks. He asserts he manufactures for those who want them and compares his trade to gunsmiths or cutlery makers, denying knowledge of buyers' intents.
A countryman and wife in a London fog get separated by a cab during shopping. The wife hunts his steps while the husband suspects elopement. Police joins the search. misunderstanding resolved at a hotel. The episode costs about fifty pounds and ends with a punchline about a fur dolman.
A speaker argues that science and faith should rise together. Religion must shed past dogma and fear, adopting a gentler, better crafted expression aligned with reason. Demanding coexistence, the mind and spirit can together address humanity’s deepest questions.
Col Detroit Free Press notes M Quad’s war sketches praising the Swamp Angel, a siege cannon recast after the war. It was set up at Perry and Inton avenues by grateful citizens with its breach fractured and muzzle toward the north. Gen Bitmore visited and reflected on past scenes as locals preserve inscription on the stone base.
A Georgia tale recounts Uncle Remus narrating a comical incident with a blind horse borrowed for plowing in a peach orchard. The scene blends dialect humor with a critique of whites’ attitudes and a rustic mishap that ends with social commentary.
During a dinner for about a dozen men, late guest Thompson arrived to find the table bare as Sothern and others vanished beneath it. The quick trick aimed to shock Thompson, with all present gradually surfacing as the hoax is revealed.
The Munich electrical exhibition showcased photographs of facial expressions caused by stimulating facial nerves with electricity. Professor Vorr Ziemssen led the experiments. He also compares continuous and induced currents on accelerator and depressor nerves controlling the heart, finding induced current largely inoperative while continuous current is highly active.
The Whistler etchings show at a London gallery features fifty one works hung with yellow velvet and white muslin. The catalog lists unfavorable reviews printed in yellow while black and white etchings are displayed in white frames on white felt. Attendees including the Prince and Princess of Wales were urged to wear harmonizing colors. The event provoked mixed reactions as critics called the exhibition tawdry despite some merit in pieces.
The death of Postmaster General Howe leaves only three Lincoln era senators still active in public life: Anthony Sherman and Daniel Clark of New Hampshire. Few others remain from that wartime Senate along with Hannibal Hamlin the vice president and chaplain Dr Byron Sunderland.
William Collins a Brooklyn newsboy sued Union Ferry for 10000 damages after being thrown off a boat by a deck hand. A supreme court jury awarded him 5000, asserting workers and the poor have rights against powerful corporations. The verdict signals that justice can prevail in clashes between a penniless boy and a wealthy employer.
Bill Nye criticizes the public's demand for large papers and bulk over quality. He argues readers should seek excellence and better writing rather than sheer volume, noting readers pay for a big paper yet rarely read it.
The Rochester Post Express notes the Chinese practice of paying bills yearly rather than weekly. The item observes that when a bill is short, a polite reply may reference trying again next year, praising the Chinese system.
The Darmstadt archives claim medieval punishments cost 24 florins to boil a criminal in oil 14 to burn him alive 6 to break him on the wheel and 10 to hang. No observer of German torture devices would doubt these figures.
The Philadelphia Record recounts a mining region habit where disputes end in punches. A miner taps a sleeping mule to recall it must join a tag match. the mule shows tentative defense before the miner lands a blow, sending the animal reeling.
Native potato plants were discovered by Prof Lemmon in the Huachuca and nearby ranges north of the Apache Pass. He found blue and white flowered varieties at 5000 to 10000 feet, with tubers of varying shapes and sizes, some 1 inch and up to larger forms. Potatoes and seed balls were collected, prompting interest from cultivators to propagate the native stock.
A German correspondent recalls the deceased advocate Maitre Lachaud noting his genius for mimicry and stagecraft. Facing a doomed murderer, he pivoted from pathos to broad farce, marking his brow with ink to mimic tears and delivering a chastening appeal that moved a juror group to acquit.
A Delavan contest eve tale shows Judge Charley Clancy sending telegrams to Steve Dunn in Saratoga. The exchanges reveal Dunn’s long-dead status, provoking laughter from the crowd while Clancy remains stern, fearing a misstep in seating Prague amid factional war.
Cremation remains unpopular in the United States as broad social and religious attachments to earth burial persist. Sentiment toward burning is deemed morbid by many, driven by fears of new horrors and a natural resistance rooted in science and the order of decay and postmortem evolution.
A Boston gentleman reports his female cat has given birth to five kittens. Four were disposed of, the cat surprised him by bringing a live captured mouse to her nest and placing it beside her own litter. The family reportedly coexists without discord as the kittens eat and sleep together while the cat seems content.
A Boston curious piece recounts a man who at twenty earns a fortune, wastes it, and by thirty bears severe gout misnamed as rheumatism. A night scene with a worker as watcher ends with a dramatic exchange and a groan from the patient, hinting at the mystery of his ailment.
A nostalgic poem fragment follows Kathie Moran as the speaker recalls courting under nature’s signs. The speaker longs for true love, imagines a wedding ring, and laments separation while birds and bells mark the season. The lost beloved Kathie remains central, with vows of steadfast devotion.
The piece catalogs the unseen helpers that accompany a newspaper operation. It names The Taxpayer Old Subscriber Veritas Citizen and others who contribute or haunt the editorial room. It notes these figures are part of the system though not essential to core duties.
A fragmented text presents dialect quotations about honesty vanity and human nature. It includes garbled lines on truth and pretense and ends with unreadable coinages and disjointed phrases. The item resembles a quirky historical clipping with unclear attribution to Opie P Read and several bidialectal lines.
A humorous history of Eng and Chang born April 16 1811 and joined in body by a patent coupler. The piece contrasts their tastes beliefs and misadventures including social constraints and mutual aid as they navigate society and mortality.
The text explains how aging weakens lungs increasing pneumonia risk and fatality. It outlines stages from fluid-filled air cells to solidification and possible gangrene, lists symptoms such as exhaustion and delayed expectoration, and notes cold exposure as a common trigger. Prevention focuses on protection, rest, fluids, and high-nutrient foods.
Special agent Robert B. Gardner reports on two tribes in Eastern Washington the Sanpeel with 400 members and the Dreamers sect preparing for a flood ark with 50,000 feet of lumber. Moses directs a 144 follower group living in the Inespellim valley between Priest’s Rapids and Cam Spokane.
Brief dialogue captures tension between landlord and new tenant as both note unsettled conditions and time required to adjust in a new house. Subtle humor centers on doors that won’t shut and a housing delay. The exchange ends with a polite, repeated greeting.
In a Philadelphia Times piece a young fiddler plays a jig with pedal bass while a German professor denounces the music as scandalous. The professor insists real music touches the heart, not the feet, and a tense silence follows as listeners confront the clash between tradition and newer forms.
A clever vagrant has long used feigned insanity to secure shelter in many places. He attempted the ruse again at Chester but was exposed, ending his string of forty accommodations.
Fragmented verse recounts three hunters on a sea outing in March. Their finest guns and loyal dog are mentioned as rough waves and cold winds slowly erase their trail, leaving only unclear signs of an accident or misfortune at dawn.
A flashy eastern visitor in Tombstone, Arizona, argues over grammar with a local storyteller at a hotel. The exchange ends amicably as the Eastern man admits he was wrong and the pair shake hands before they irrigate.
A Boston Journal of Chemistry writer argues most invalids cannot tolerate cold or tepid water and that even sponge baths weaken the frail. He promotes air baths with gradual nude exposure, morning sun, and gentle skin rubbing, claiming the air and sunlight cure without cost.
A traveler recalls a scene near the Maryland Pennsylvania border where Union troops thirsted at a pump while an old man tended a grave amid rose bushes. The grave held a fallen Confederate soldier named Johnny, buried by the farmer who kept the rose garden as his field grave. The old man explains the women’s wish to honor him, and the traveler notes the poignant memory.
A historical excerpt describes perceptual distortions where sizes appear exaggerated. A young woman overtaxing herself at school sees objects vastly larger than real, while her own body parts seem normal. other people appear gigantic. a gentleman reports hearing ticking as commands.
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