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Newspaper
Bainbridge Democrat
Location
Bainbridge, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1908
Page
4
The article sketches optical and sensory tricks such as weighing illusions with warmed and cooled coins, then shifts to brief vignettes: Ruskin’s country life reflections, Old Ab Drake’s harmless tyranny, a dinner-rule tale from Philadelphia, and a London diners’ pursuit of ever more dishes before paying the bill.
A tea dealer explains two methods to prepare tea. The Japanese method uses lukewarm water heated carefully over a small fire, steeping for three to five minutes for a mild aromatic drink. The common American method uses boiling water poured over leaves with steeping lengthened, extracting tannin and producing a stronger, potentially harmful infusion. The author suggests a middle ground with boiled water cooled briefly to about a minute of steeping to yield a mild safe beverage.
A teacher quizzes students on measurement while Johnny eagerly answers with a humorous misfit. He gestures planetary orbits and blurts stockings as the answer, prompting a moment of classroom amusement.
A dialogue questions whether wealth concentration is inevitable with power shifting to a single holder. The judge warns of a billionaire who might someday decide to destroy humanity. The item also notes Frane grease factories distilling perfume vapors from flowers.
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