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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1894
Page
6
A period recipe roundup shows four methods to prepare apples Buttered Apples Compote Frosted Apples and Miroton of Apples. Each method details steps with apples sugar butter rind and spices and advises serving with marmalade whipped cream or custard.
A London silversmiths firm unveils an electric tea kettle praised for absolute cleanliness since no fumes arise from the heating method. The device attaches to room lighting, keeps water hot on a stand, and reduces scalding risk by pouring without removing the kettle. Lamps range eight to fifty candle power, with sixteen deemed most useful. Also notes retainment of heat and quick boiling for cold water with higher power. In a separate note, an English scientist finds boiling potatoes with skins preserves nutritive quality better than peeling, exposing waste in preparation.
The article surveys umbrella handles from long narrow wood to ornate carved ivory and mother of pearl, noting fashionable choices like grotesque bisque heads, Dutch boy designs, and Silver tipped canes. It advises care tips such as drying properly and not leaving a wet umbrella tip downward, with a nod to style and social taste. It also includes a brief note on women's beauty and charm from articles in Ladies' Home Journal and a simple recipe for Johnny cakes from the New York World.
A quirky overview of animal traits and behaviors from ancient natural history notes. It mentions mammoth tusk length, snake muscle networks, whale origins, elephants fanning flies, oxen and sheep fattening in company, elephant longevity, aged bone lime, rhinoceros mud wallows, jellyfish simplicity, tunneling as civil engineering, birds drawing hunters from nests, and marmot dormancy before torpidity.
Column lists global curiosities and odd facts. Prof Wincrys the Canadian weather prophet predicts a New England earthquake in 1004. It also notes Rev Dr Durnford's tour of Europe, long-lived Toronto families, and quirky ancestral claims including King Duncan and King James I.
A fragment from a historical article describes Tur Grooches in Rome during the first and second centuries with militaristic styles modeled after swords helmets battle-axes and bows. It notes axes from Troy used for war and delicate Nin eveh sculptures.
The piece notes Cina raises and consumes more ducks than any nation and cites a Louisiana farm costing 950 000 for its fencing. It mentions Green Victoria descendants occupying seven thrones in Syrope and a central England tree 500 to 400 years old. Henry W Lonormon is claimed to descend from John Alden and Priscilla Mullins.
Names of towns such as New Bunxr in North Carolina trace back to Berne Switzerland via Baron de Graatewidt who founded the place in 1720. Other local toponyms recount tribe word origins and shifts stemming from Native American and European language roots, including a Me town once called Sunbury.
Recipes for Cream Cruisers Cocoanut Coaxers Giscen Dinors Wukerp Cream Pit and Sweet Rusk derived from a New York Ledger clipping. Ingredients include sugar cream eggs baking powder butter cocoanut molasses ginger and yeast for various pastries and pies.
After the Paris Otello performance Verdi donated five thousand francs to opera relief and one thousand to scene shift workers, offering fifteen nights of his rights for Paris’s poor. A monument was unveiled for Prerns Lanovssi in Touey Burgundy, author of a vast universal history dictionary. Anpou’s father died at Cannes aged ninety three. Generas seen pulling carriages in London with Transvaal zebras. and at Weston Park the Earl of Bradford, Viscount Newport, and Orlando Bridgeman marked weddings and a coming of age on the same day.
A reader records details from colonial days including streets named after forest trees, a jailer attacked newcomer, Yellow Fever prevalence in Northern cities, baking in a pot on legs, roasting with a spit, buffalo robes as bed coverings, quilted comforts as luxuries, no gloves, yarn mittens in winter, tomatoes called love apples thought poisonous, and tiny four inch square window panes.
The article argues for bed placement not against walls to avoid rebreathed air and endorses ventilation Sun exposure of bedding. It notes alcoves are unhygienic, favors twin beds for shared rooms, and warns against children sharing beds with adults or opposite strong-weak pairings.
Lady Londonderry credits her youthful looks to spending one day in ten in bed. She wakes naturally, bathes, and returns to bed for a light breakfast and rest until six in the evening. Her maid reads to her, then dinner is served in her room and she relaxes until ten.
A mixed slice of curiosities recounts how Miss Hen.ex Guapstone joined a country schools board in Pife shire. Expressions claim Josermay paid two thousand dollars for a dress provoking a prison sentence for the maker. The late Oliver Wendell Helmes reportedly earned six hundred dollars for a Garfield elegy from the Boston Globe. Memphis magnate Moses H Katzmutnerr left fish tackle to be buried with him. Joan Reskin derides chrysanthemums as artificial, preferring nature’s seasonless mood.
A string of quirky observations includes that aging men shrink, clue-eyed cats are reportedly deaf per Darwin, and twenty-two elements found indoors. The note mentions a beaver tail as a trowel, a hog that eats fewer plants than any herbivore, carnivores rarely birthing more than two, and vultures lacking smell or notice of distant carcasses. A Paris florist charged Russia one thousand dollars for a wreath for President Carnot.
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