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Newspaper
Anderson Intelligencer
Location
Anderson, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1902
Page
7
A health note explains that delaying meals is misleading as digestion occurs at night. It advises a light easily digested bedtime snack to prevent sleeplessness, suggesting food at night supports rest and even fat management. The text cites a Deep Man remark and infant hunger as proof that nourishment at night is needed.
A stout hostess asks a group of young men for a glass of water. One delivers first and boasts of quickness, claiming he carried water for an elephant in a circus as a boy. The room falls silent as he realizes the hostess’s offended expression.
London Standars article notes Havelock Ellis argues gout marks a plight of genius in figures such as Milton Harvey Newton Johnson and Darwin. Epilepsy is linked to high intellect with examples including Napoleon Mohammed Herbert of Cherbury and Hamilton.
Mrs Bogelby returns from shopping with luxuries for her ailing husband and laments poverty. An elder narrator recalls a bottle of wine from Mrs Rich and the strain of hard times. The scene evokes 19th century domestic hardship and social class tension through dialogue and indignant tone.
The English glowworm is the wingless female of a winged beetle. Opinions differ on why she glows. Some say the light protects her by frightening nocturnal birds while others argue the glow lures foes to her.
A New York photographer recalls Powelson’s clash with French hotel charges during a European business trip. Powelson refused to pay for hotel candles and tipped a porter by slipping a candle into his pocket, then handed it to the porter with a franc for cashing at the office.
A catalog of tibetan skull drums notes cruel rituals using craniums of children with snake skins stretched over them. Devils heads painted in red and blue ornament the wooden disk. Drum mounted by a cord and spun to produce a regular tum tum sound.
An English zoologist reports a chick near hatching or newly sprung makes five distinct calls. Loss of sight from mother prompts a different cry from hunger, followed by a feeding cry. A frightened chirr warns chicks, while a hen’s clucking guides her own brood, with each hen recognizing its own family among many.
A Western Australian paper laments the adoption of uncultured accent by educated children in state schools. Examples include ee-yuh for here and hin for been. The piece notes slang is more objectionable in other parts of Australia with terms like top piece for head and phiz for face.
Parepa Rosa was an accomplished performer noted for charm and warmth with audiences. She combined vivacity with methodical business sense, influencing later dealings in her career as critics observed she counted the house before starting each opera.
A garbled text fragment mentions prosthetics or medical care, a person named Veoman bronks and a heart issue. The readable portions are insufficient to identify a clear event, date, location, or individuals beyond these unclear references.
An Ostende gambling club offers roulette and trente et quarante with stakes from 5 to 2000 francs. A daily total of millions in francs circulates as hundreds of players gamble round the clock. Inside management alone knows the full proportions of wins and losses, while most losses fall on the players.
In Perthshire Scotland a woman and her husband block a brewer's cart on a narrow sharp corner. She refuses to back up insisting she will stay all night. The cart driver sighs and offers to reverse, joking he has another such passenger at home.
Sleepwalking remains puzzling to psychologists. Recent Glasgow case shows a man walking ten miles to see his father, while the Welsh case features a young woman wandering in a nightgown in cold weather without waking. These incidents challenge the belief that extreme temperatures always awaken a sleepwalker.
Two men ride through Paris, one clever, one dull. The dull man monopolizes talk until a passerby yawns, provoking a sharp aside from his clever companion. The momentary wit eases the dullard's frustration as they continue on their way.
The Washington Star quotes a father defending opera attendance for his daughters as a sign of discerning taste. It mentions England's vast Cowthrops oak, aged about 1600 years, with a trunk base of seventy eight feet in circumference and today about seventy three tons of timber, surrounded by earth.
A colonel confronts a pair of soldiers in a drill room as one reads a sweetheart letter aloud to Adkins who cannot read. The scene includes humor about misreadings and a printer job mix up with wedding and grocer ads. A long mix of jokes follows, including marriages, horses, and moral quips from a humor page.
A knot of men gathered in the smoking room of the club the other evening to trade remarkable stories about fat and lean men. The winner boasted of betting he could travel so thin he could go through a gut without making a sound.
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