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Newspaper
Barnesville Gazette
Location
Barnesville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1885
Page
2
The piece surveys crop prospects from Tennessee to California with attention to peanut and hemp markets. It notes Berrien county crops, laying hens value, and English rents, plus the Morgan County Farmers Club meeting and wheat prices in St. Louis and Baltimore. It also urges using modern farm tools and deep early cultivation to improve yields.
The Rural New Yorker urges farmers to plant fruit yards to improve health and cut medical costs. It urges household pest prevention in dining rooms and describes Uncle Sam's seed distribution by Congress. It notes a dumb locust ravaging Virginia apples and the cicada disappearing near Cincinnati.
A man on a New York ferry stunned onlookers by lighting five cigars fused with tape and smoking them all at once. He seated himself, ignored questions, and finally discarded the cigars into the sea after passengers watched in awe.
An English journal notes shellfish high in nitrogenous matter similar to eggs and lean beef, with digestion depending on preparation and individual stomachs. Oysters dominate commerce, mussels as bait, cockles cultivated, and periwinkles heavily traded to London, about 2000 bushels weekly March to August and 500 otherwise.
The piece notes Greek pottery and household sculptures show sharp caricature from daily life and stage themes. Figures include Jupiter as a drunken old man guiding a lantern bearer, Apollo as a quack, Chiron aided for treatment, and the flight of Aeneas rendered with comic monkeys. Bacchus, Venus, Mars, and Mercury are depicted as animal and beast forms. Pliny records painters who specialized in popular caricature.
The Omaha Bee reports local circulation of corroded gold coins that appear genuine but have lost 20 to 30 percent of value from acid damage. The five coins, lighter and smoother than standard, fail to cash at banks. One specimen at Merchants' National Bank lost exactly $1 of its original value.
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