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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1910
Page
7
An account describes the death of Richard Evelyn at five years old and his extraordinary early talents. By age two and a half he read Latin French English and Gothic letters, learned vocabularies, wrote legibly, and showed piety and marked understanding of Scripture.
Young Macmonnies in Paris watched Falguiere modify a Diana sculpture by reshaping its limbs and head to his own liking. The French master, intending a compliment, ended with a pose that mirrored Falguiere's work. Macmonnies then restored his statue to its original stance after comparing to a photograph.
A phantom coach with spectral horses appears at a southwest England manor before the head of the family or a key member dies. During a Christmas house party guests saw the old fashioned coach and white horses as two ladies fainted. The next morning a telegram announced the son had drowned in the fens. The apparition had been seen intermittently for decades, with a fatal death following each sighting.
A young lawyer declares he comes as a representative of neighbor Tom Jones to collect a debt. Mr. Smith commends the early career achievement and the promise of such a permanent job.
An explanation of the fata morgana a rare optical mirage seen most often at the Messina strait between Sicily and Italy. It requires a 45 degree sun angle calm sea and strong tidal current to create shifting images of castles arches palaces ships and halos observed from Calabria.
A Pearson's Weekly report describes bamboo hairs on young shoots that are hollow and spiked. It claims white colonists call them bamboo poison used by Javanese women to poison men and cause dysentery. The article notes uncertainty if deaths are deliberate or natural and suggests planters travel to Europe.
The Life and Letters of J R Green reveal how his wife supported him through illness and writer's cramp. Mrs Green learned to write with her left hand after injuring hers, allowing him to continue thinking and writing. A preserved page shows the couple's shared perseverance inspiring Green to work again.
A Billy Rice anecdote recalls a man who finds a pin at a merchant’s door and is hired after the owner notices his act. The tale ends with the man becoming owner of the business in a surprisingly brief span, illustrating the pin trick’s mythic odds and Rice’s storytelling style.
A fragment depicts Damascus as an oriental city of magic evoked by a slave of the lamp to realize a dream of the orient, described as ethereally lovely and exquisitely eastern, ephemeral and blown away by a breath.
The florin, famed modern coin from Florence, may have named the city or derived from the flower de luce. It spread across Austria and Holland as a monetary unit during a time of broad European use, aided by northern Italian finance and wider coinage limits on the continent.
A recon ditte man quotes the autocrat on reputation defining future status. A practical man cites his son who says some men earn a reputation and keep it while others earn one and let it control them. Ledger insight contrasts ambition and restraint.
A Louisville Courier Journal item notes a remarkable man who looks up unfamiliar words in the dictionary and learns their meanings before using them in conversation, highlighting prudent language use.
A New York Press description recalls keel hauling, an ancient punishment for sailors. A line passed beneath the ship, feet tied, hauled under the hull, sometimes until near drowning. The ship did not stop, deaths went unaccounted as acts of Providence, a fate feared by mariners.
In Tudor England public fear over poison led Parliament to enact a retroactive law making boiling to death the penalty. It followed the Coke case in Rochester where he poisoned seventeen people and was boiled, then in 1542 Margaret Davy met the same fate. The statute endured until Henry VIII died, then was repealed.
A New York Methodist Episcopal bishop presided at a large reception where his brother, a lawyer who looked like the bishop, was mistaken for the preacher. A conference member warmly greeted the brother and praised the sermon, only for the ruse to be revealed that the man who preaches is the bishop while the brother merely practices.
In Yonkers the head man questions a long absence of the menagerie. The attendant explains a giraffe spent half an hour clearing its throat, delaying the show and prompting the joke about the animal’s vocal effort.
Chambers' Journal notes centipedes with venomous first pair of claws and a largest specimen of eleven inches likely fatal to a weak man. It compares horror of large spiders like the tarantula to centipedes, while Australian bushmen react with fear to even small creatures.
During a crowded performance in Sydney New South Wales two drunk sailors sat in the gallery. One lost balance and fell into the stalls. The other cried Man overboard and jumped after him. The first man broke a leg and the second escaped without a scratch.
A witty exchange frames a playful robbery theme with characters Adam Eve and Rochefoucaul, suggesting ironic outcomes and comic mood. The brief dialog hints at irony and social amusement in a light literary style.
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