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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1900
Page
5
The Tulip Craze traces the flower’s arrival in Germany through Gesper’s first description, the Dutch Haarlem bloom boom, and the 1630s speculation peak. Records show bulbs traded for vast wealth, with the Vicearl and Semper Augustus fetching extraordinary sums and officials later restricting tulip trading.
Sydney Smith visits a host named Kershaw and mocks church behavior. After a promise to donate to York hospital, Smith preaches the next day and sneezes the name Ker shaw in church when the guest smiles. This tale appears in The Reminiscences of Half a Century by R. W. Hiley.
Two anecdotes about John Bright from Sir Edward Russell's That Reminds Me recount his restraint and a rare quarrel with his wife. Bright urged Edward Miall to drink champagne before a nervous speech, noting champagne can fail as a tonic. He joked that if his wife disagreed, he would seek a knighthood from Gladstone, which she always declined emphatically.
Jerome K. Jerome notes in the Saturday Evening Post that St Petersburg embodies late hours with music halls not starting until midnight and trains at 5 am. He contrasts residents delaying rising, enjoying late theater outings and brisk sleigh rides, preferring to greet friends with a final good night before departing for the station.
A traveler describes Oberammergau as quaint and says the Lang family controls the town’s production of the play. They oversee taverns and inns and supervise traveler accommodation, shaping the local operations with their leading influence. A sharp, apocryphal remark about aristocratic origins and spoons is also noted.
The piece warns about prussic acid and other poisons, noting the instant lethality of inhaled gas and the dangers of mixtures. It recalls an ammonia and nitric acid accident and a cautionary tale of a factory fire. It then recounts Mr Campbell's Legal Adventure, a NY lawyer beaten by a stranger, then misrepresented by a doctor who turns out to be an accident lawyer with willing witnesses.
An Arizona woodchopper reports blue jays plant thousands of trees across the state by burying pine nuts in the ground. He recalls observing a bird burying nuts in pine woods, and a visited eastern observer verifies finding a pine nut buried about one and a half inches deep. The note veers into a brief discussion of voice registers, chest and head tones, and how trained speakers reveal them.
A Kew Gardens director, lecturing at the London Institute, described pearls found in the coconut palm of the Philippine Islands. These inland pearls are carbonate of lime like ocean pearls. He also noted true opals in the joints of bamboo.
After 29 years of experiments at Rothamsted England it is shown that in winter more than half of rainfall penetrates the soil and becomes available for springs while in summer only about a quarter is absorbed. The deepest soil holds the maximum water near 40 inches.
Galveston News laments vanity in public figures who chase ancestral glory. The editorial urges those seeking legitimacy to instead back current leaders and those living in this country.
A humorous postcard caption from Heitere Welt notes Melitta's wedding journey with the line We are in heaven implying marital bliss. The exchange contrasts a wife’s contentment with a skeptical husband asking if heaven has postal cards.
Fragmentary OCR shows assorted times such as five to six minute marks and late evening routes. It hints at a transit timetable with sporadic entries including early morning and night departures.
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