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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1895
Page
8
An English factory case shows an oculist exposing a fake eye injury. A man claiming loss of sight could read a green ink message only with his left eye through ordinary glass while the right eye, tinted red, failed to see the green writing on a black card, revealing the ruse.
A Washington Post note describes selling birds by the mile with examples from fancy and utility pigeons. It cites an owner selling a loft at a rate of a cent per mile and buyers sending stamps to ship birds that flew a mile. It mentions famous long distance record holders and prices for tumblers and runt squabs, and notes funeral doves produced from snow-white pigeons by a New Jersey firm.
A sensational excerpt mocks Hindu beliefs with a 136 hells, vast fiery chambers, and towering demon Yamaki. It shifts to Thackeray and Ticknor anecdotes from a Boston lecture, noting their friendship, disputes, and a humorous noses anecdote about Thackeray as a boy.
A London Spectator correspondent recalls a fine dog Turk the smooth haired retriever. While walking with his father a bailiff hid a rabbit and Turk later dragged the bailiff’s coat toward home, recovering the stolen quarry a mile and three-quarters away, believing it belonged to his master.
Richard Narding Davis recalls a transatlantic trip where music calmed diners yet jarred a passenger bound to his chair as waves and wind tested harmony. A lone man vowed to discover where horns hide, then collapsed as land neared. A woman reporter quotes notable ladies on gems, Patti favoring diamonds, Vanderbilt moonstones, and Seafeller pearls with a pearl preference if pressed.
A three year old watched a soda fountain pour and then tried to drink from a tall tumbler without help. She tilted the glass and finished the syrupy liquid, leaving only foam. Tears filled her eyes as she exclaimed I cant drink the suds to her nurse Maggie.
The burial of a notoriously wealthy Buffalo resident featured a sermon by Rev. Dr. Lord who recalled the deceased birth details and concluded with the remark that he possessed one noble virtue. He always rose early each morning.
Du Mauntin gathers about one thousand dollars monthly as royalties from Trilby based plays. Miss Winxin Davis, Jefferson Davis’s daughter, writes an old fashioned love story The Veiled Doctor. Anthony TROr wrote sixty novels over thirty five years earning 250000. Riney wont perform next season, plans Hoosier life novel. Siam crown prince among boy authors writing in three languages. Reprnr Louis STEVENSON celebrated birthday gift to a girl born Feb 20. Miss Mary Aniam Dopee suffers overwork after stroke report. Mary Cowpen Ciaran to be eighty six in June. Douglass Jerrold praises her.
Short notes report on champagne bubbles from carbonic acid gas, a whale skeleton weighing at least 59 000 pounds, and rising roles for women with over one hundred occupations open. Other items note a glass shard in Oliver Snyder’s eye removed after 33 years, Minnesota markets accepting six year old wheat, and a Hammond man’s streetcar ad for swift marriage ceremonies by J N Blank, justice of the peace.
The report notes President Faure as the first French leader fluent in English, and lists birthdays for Fionener NisuuseaLe and Jean Ingelow, all in London with Miss Nightingale in the West End and Miss Ingelow in Kensington. It mentions the Dahomey king educated in France, rumored to be a suvajro after a romance setback, and Dr Nicholson’s claim about Saint tripartite life born near Daventry. M. Slaney proposed a controversial fundraising idea for a children’s hospital involving displaying black babies in fashionable London streets.
The column notes London fashion by women reworking last season dresses and charging modestly for dressmaking services. It recalls Henry VIII an edict on women meeting. It reports Queen Victoria viewing an incandescent methyl alcohol lamp, which produced six times kerosene light and proved nonexplosive when thrown on sand.
Janus J. Hii, president of the Great Northern railroad, recalls a former freight agent post at St. Paul docks with a monthly salary of 840. A landslide near Huntingdon halted 15 miles of trains for a full day as 1,000 workers cleared the blockage. Columbus Ohio tunnels will use an inverted trough to vent smoke via artificial draught. A rapid transit line to Manitou Colorado completes a two mile link from the Colorado Springs cog road, bridging routes.
Ohio Republicans endorse tariff protection, bimetalism, and national unity while denouncing the Democratic administration for alleged incompetence and policy failures. They advocate pension protections, McKinley leadership, and support for a Nicaragua canal, aiming to elect a Republican legislature and McKinley as president in 1896. The piece closes with condolences for Walter Gresham and an unrelated local note.
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