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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1899
Page
7
A German medical note warns that chemically pure water, lacking dissolved salts or gases, can act as a protoplasmic poison. Drinking distilled or exceptionally pure water may extract salts from tissues, swell mucosa, and cause gastric damage. Even natural ice water and the famed Gastein spring water can irritate the stomach.
Lieut Deary recounts a vivid tale of a small Esquimo band between Melville Bay and Kane Basin. They are the northernmost humans, living simply on meat blubber and blood with no vegetation or salt. Peary notes hunters share game with neighbors and life includes wrestling boxing and lifting stones.
A collection of humorous Irish life vignettes and sayings. Jokes about husbands uncles and the divil, a Dublin gas lamp wish, and a navvy’s complaints aboard the Holyhead boat. Also notes a London academy correspondent reporting a bookseller misplacing gardening volumes.
A pre presidential note from Abraham Lincoln recounts his humorous reply to a request for a neighbor’s finances. The letter sketches the neighbor’s supposed assets and odd observations on land, moisture, and farming practices, reflecting 19th century anecdote and counsel on soil and cultivation.
A traveling nun recounts a Maryland tavern keeper who has cared for her son Jimmie for decades. The son drifted through rough jobs and now works with a preacher named Rev. Cutter McCulloch aboard a revenue cutter, a life change the mother notes with cautious pride.
In Torringford Connecticut during anti-slavery days a minister denounced women who sought education and public speaking as Jezebels. A meeting to protest decency ended with the hall floor collapsing and women dropping into the cellar, an elderly voice quipping about reaching their proper sphere. Torringford remains a stronghold for advanced views on women's education to this day.
A Hebrew merchant challenges an assessor over a $5000 stock value cited for tax. The assessor records $85,000 in personal property, alarming the shopkeeper who protests, misplacing blame on a mistaken clerk. Also noted are odd trivia on salaries and ship depths.
Leslie's Weekly notes that minor incidents spark major wars. Palmerston and Sharp references joke about limited true understanding of the Schleswig-Holstein, Seven Years, Crimean, and Napoleonic era conflicts. An old Kans apid tale about Blenheim closes the reflection.
A Washington Post noted tale tells of a self made man lingering after a widow. His attentions are rebuffed yet he sends an expensive gift. The widow replies with a mocking birthday note praising a dog collar and signs sincerely.
The passage outlines daily Samoan life when not at war, noting simple tasks like nut beating and tapa making by old women, and net making by men. It describes beauty practices such as white lime in hair and a tattooed forearm bearing a sweetheart's name, tattooed by the young woman herself.
An authority notes that modern ships demand more skilled sailors. Steel rigging, steam powered capstans, and new mechanical gear reduce crew size at 3,000 tons, but require higher competence. American jack tars are preferred for these advances.
The piece argues modern Russia remains shaped by Peter the Great. It credits him with transforming barbarism into civilization through military, naval, educational, and commercial reforms. It notes the capital shift to the Baltic and Russia’s emergence as a westernized power, yet warns of a veneer of culture concealing autocratic ferocity and suppression of liberty.
An actor recounts a tragic onstage incident in a southern Texas town reported by the Pittsburgh Dispatch. While hidden in a barrel to overhear a hero and heroine, he erupts in anger as wasps swarm out along with startled stagehands and audience, causing the performance to collapse.
The text notes how bull and bear baiting drew crowds in England, especially in Liverpool around mayoral elections. It recalls 1782 pageants with garlands and theater entertainments for Bear, amid gossip about Wall and bear baiting and requests to the royal bear warden to revive neglected performances for Queen Elizabeth and Shakespeare.
A historical note claims tobacco smokers have been more exempt from influenza during the recent epidemic than nonsmokers, a paradoxical observation about health status among smokers.
The New Haven Register recounts Isaac Bromley a noted editor remaining calm during a challenging moment in Litchfield Connecticut where a red headed man asked for the Bridal Veil Falls height Bromley admitted he could not measure it but guessed 361 feet 11 inches and no further questions were asked
London auction records at Sothebys featured an engraving of Edmund Kean as a Canadian chief. Kean once acted in Quebec and gifted silver cups to Huron chiefs who then elected him chief under the name Alentenaide. The sale also included a miniature of Mrs Kean with hair locks and an autograph letter from Mrs Kean to her husband.
Abc company clears out surplus lines of summer textiles with deep discounts on Madras, Dimities, Organdies, Linens, India Silks and Priestly black goods. Customers can request samples and styles for specific uses, with the promise of substantial value from large lots.
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