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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1896
Page
3
A verse fragment by David La Costa in Home and Country envisions a fantasy castle with a champagne cistern, a steep roof, and a dreamlike escape. The speaker imagines hiring a large balloon to sail beyond the yellow moon with a mystery companion.
A crowded sunlit platform sees two disguises in play as a man believed to be Prince Paul Demtoff and a veiled lady, Lady Constance Azurefore, scheme to flee aboard a private yacht. In a twist, the valet reveals he robbed Demtoff of one million roubles and plans to flee to the Argentine, while the lady claims to be her maid with her mistress’s jewel case.
Three waiters at a southern hotel asked a Harvard professor at dinner if he would have soup. He replied to the last waiter that it was not compulsory and that he thought it was mock turtle.
A Cincinnati Tribune item quotes an inventor boasting a folding bed that doubles as a coffin if it shuts and smothers a man. The capital ist, his friend and listener, asks for details on the device’s perilous feature and potential use.
Prospect Envir of Harvard sails for Egypt for three to four months. Describes family longevity with ancestors ages 102, 103, and 108, and a father alive at 90. Notes William U1 Nave as the “Chesterfield of America” and compares him to Beau Brummel. Mentions Col Robert G. Ingersoll’s lecture fees in Chicago. Mary McCrone and cousin Hugh McCulloch travel world tour. Mrs Jerry Green noted as richest woman in America and high personal tax at Hempstead. Wilde quip about epigrams. Sir Julian Pa rasefo te revives a new sport idea.
Robert Louis Stevenson married a divorced woman and the giver of the bride’s kiss was her ex husband. William Morris plans a new prose romance titled Child Christopher in black and red Chaucer type. Mrs Homrurny Wann is a highly paid novelist with earnings around 200000 from three books in six years. Mrs Barr prepares From the Depths of Hell with Skye illustrations. M de Ropays has been named editor in chief at Maynard's. Gaston Calmette is managing editor. French deputies noted as no better than others. Palais Bourbon library holds 150000 volumes focusing on older authors and popular contemporary works.
A collection of farming tips and observations on poultry costs compared with pork prices seed potato yields tied to planted area and plot size protecting trees from rabbits with screen wire and fruit shipment in carbonic acid gas. Notes on roving fowls improving health digestion and grit for the gizzard.
The piece notes a Gospel missionary ship to be commissioned for Puget Sound. It cites large mission funding, including over 14 million added yearly to mission capital in India, and Methodist Episcopal appropriations of 592,040 for foreign missions and 478,205 for home missions. It also highlights Salvation Army War Crys in 14 languages with a 15 million annual circulation and Rev Russell S. Conwell preaching to America’s largest Protestant congregation. Prof Briaes lauds Salvation Army growth.
A compact compendium notes tiny sea galleys the size of hazelnuts kill herrings easily. It lists sea worms eaten along Italian French and Spanish coasts and counts of sea-animal life on sea-cypress branches. It cites Orbigny findings on sand grains and shells. It claims most world drainage flows to the Atlantic and that sea life's purpose is food. The sea pen moves by expanding and contracting its body folds.
Stage notes survey a London run of Conaver's Aunt for two years entering a third, Benitog's L enfance du Christ staged in Berliozcle, Sardou writing for Jany Having, and a revival of Le Fils de Giboyer at the Comedie Fran aise as Got's farewell. Norwegian theatre plans feature Bjornson Ibsen alongside a Christiania theater entrance sculpture by Stefan Lindhm r. Mrs Koenig turns ninety after a career starting in 1825 with London roles Smike and Mrs Perrybingle, while Marchese Capranica del Grillo marries in Nome and Lady Angiur Hill composes an opera, The Perry Girl, in Dublin drawing Irish peers.
A compact collection of aphorisms and proverbs from various authors including Tennyson Hawthorne Chesterfield Goethe Spurgeon Plutarch and others reflecting on virtue prudence humility and wisdom from different periods. The lines mix English and Latin style adages with occasional misspellings and punctuation.
A collection of brief items mentions a duty for rose growers, a Gardiner guardian of the peace robbed while asleep, advice from a shoemaker on fitting boots in the forenoon, a New Woman fashion remark about a dress and bonnet, an eleven year old boy in a fat child championship, Utica’s toll gate claim denied by Allegheny City, and Frank Crumb escaping a ferocious bull in South Plymouth Connecticut.
A garbled 18th century ledger lists holidays by region and faith. It notes Tin Ieast of the Supreme Being as a June 1704 holiday, Ruiny Saturday as a legal holiday in several states, New Year's Day varies by state, presidential Fast days as nationwide, a grand Feast of Tabernacles celebration in 1004 BC, Scottish rank holidays including first Mondays in May and August, and Jewish feasts instituted by Moses.
The article notes ancient Sicilian use of rock oil for lamps, Greenland candle fish as lamp fuel, and the pyrophone gas flame instrument extracting scale zones. It recalls Dublin's first gas lamps in 1818 and full city lighting before 1825, while Italian oil gatherers in Modena dig and refill oil holes.
Train schedules updated from November 25 with north and southbound times for No. 9 Athens & Toledo No. 1 Charleston & Toledo No. 11 Ganley & Columbus and No. 10 Columbus & Ganley No. 2 Toledo & Charleston No. 12 Col. & Athens. Changes include arrival times at Athens and direct connections to Marietta via train 34. The Ohio Central mileage now covers 59 lines, and the agent A. A. Greorar invites travelers to review the revised book for travel to Chicago St. Louis Cincinnati Indianapolis Cleveland Springfield Columbus Toledo and other points.
Will be sold over the Buckeye Route to points in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia on January 8th, February 5th, March Sth, April 2d and 30th, 185, at one fare for the round trip. Wholesale Dealers and Manufacturers Will find the Buckeye mileage ticket the best in the market. It is good over 8 transportation lines and costs twenty dollars, good one year from date of sale.
On January 15 the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Bay will sell round trip tickets to points west and southwest at one fare plus $2. For rates and information contact the nearest B and O ticket agent or J. M. Chesbrough G P St Louis Mo.
Railway wall ad offers February 5 ticket sales to southern and southeastern points including the Valley of Virginia. Details, rates, and contact with B. and O. agents J. M. Chesbrough and W. Ray in St Louis. Buckeye Route mileage book valid over 56 lines including Big 4. parlor car seats and excess baggage services advertised at Athens stations.
The Buckeye Flyer is advertised as the businessman's train from Columbus to Chicago. It runs nightly with solid service and through Pullman sleeping cars. No car changes, buffet parlor cars on day trains, and palace coaches on express routes between Columbus and Ohio River points. Tickets and details are available from ticket agents or W H Fisuga, General Passenger and Ticket Agent, Columbus Ohio.
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