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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1900
Page
7
A elegant parlor scene unfolds as a mother tells a story of a girl with beauty and a rich prince, while a brown eyed boy waits outside. The tale ends with the realization that the boy’s heart is dead, shaping an ominous contrast to luxury and tease.
A compact montage of humorous and satirical language shifts from a Liverpool Post item. It mocks evolving usage by imagining future readers encountering bizarre coinages and social anecdotes about women, widows, and the undertaker, framed as a playful linguistic forecast.
Descriptions of Ling Chee depict Chinese execution methods ranging from partial remissions to full ling chee, detailing bound victims on crosses, eyebrow removal, shoulder and heart strikes, and final decapitation. The piece outlines variations by offense and notes crucifixion with strangulation as an alternative.
A compilation of curious facts including imperial size comparisons, animal handling myths, animal heart reanimation, Hudson depth findings, library holdings at American colleges, tax costs in Chicago, Dead Sea steamers, old tea culture tools, and Paris street trees estimates with counts of plane trees chestnuts elms and a single oak and mulberry noted.
Modern science upgrades danger response with detachable searchlights that plug into engines and stretch on 200 foot cables to light ship holds and pier areas. They let fire crews spot flames from outside and see inside vessels during fires, reducing losses from smoke and darkness.
A device shown in the accompanying cut aims to minimize injury from tangled tethering ropes. It uses a specially constructed halter securing the rope at the upper nose strap, with the tie reaching level with or above the horse's head to keep the rope out of the animal’s feeding area.
A Derby England inventor William H Bartrum has patented a rope and pulley halt device designed to slacken the rope without tugging on the halter. The rope passes through the manger over a pulley with an adjustable height and a small weight at the end keeps the rope taut regardless of the animal head position.
A man aged with a dairy pasture converts land to continuous grass and hay sales. He applies liberal fertilizer when fields thin, claiming profits exceed fertilizer costs and bolster his savings. Skeptics warn soil humus may deplete, potentially hurting long term yields.
A seven foot high at the eaves two section poultry house plan provides separate housing and yard for two kinds of fowls. The structure is eighteen feet wide and as long as needed, with a middle partition and individual closed runs and roofs. When space is limited a single flock may be kept in the covered run.
The text describes a crudely built house with tarred roofing and rough boards, urging firm fastening for durability. It then warns that crimson clover hairs, though small, are barbed and can form large indigestible balls in horse stomachs, noting documented cases of five inch diameter masses.
A Missouri dairyman, John Patterson of Adair County, swapped hay for silage by building a stave silo to store cow peas and corn. He reports better cow health and milk, plans two more silos, and urges other farmers to adopt silage for winter feeding.
A New Jersey law to take effect next September requires landowners whose properties border public highways to remove weeds bushes and briars. If owners fail a town committee will hire workers to clean the land and the cost will be charged back to the owners. The editor praises the measure as a wise example for other states noting hedges harbor pests and disease and waste space.
To grow buckwheat for grain prepare a fine seed bed like other small grains. Apply 200 to 400 pounds per acre of fertilizer rich in potash and phosphoric acid and harrow in. Sow from July 1 to July 15 and expect twenty to thirty bushels per acre. The crop is not exhausting and leaves land suitable for next spring sowing. If plowing under, sow earlier in June and plow in bloom or before seed ripens, then sow winter grain.
An old asparagus bed benefits from a June or July manure dressing and plowing to loosen the matting. Break up roots, weed all summer, and apply 600 pounds to a half ton of fertilizer per acre in early spring. Avoid heavy cutting that spring and limit early June harvest. Poisonous butter color must be banned. pure food departments should act. Arsenical dye presents deadly risk as cases rise, requiring state officials to enforce duties.
The text urges proper hen care to make poultry profitable and stresses farmer education. It notes a dairy thermometer under $1 can raise butter yield and quality, recounting a dairy instructor's claim that using thermometers at churning could lift average butter prices by at least 2 cents per pound within two years.
A recipe for brown sauce starts with two tablespoons butter and a sliced onion carrot bay leaf and chopped turnip. The vegetables steam twenty five minutes then brown with flour. Add stock cloves mace pepper and salt simmer twenty minutes then strain and serve.
Directions mix juice from four sweet oranges one lemon juice pulp of two oranges with three cupfuls cold water one cup boiling water sugar two cupfuls and gelatin softened in cold water dissolved in boiling water then stirred with fruit juice and remaining water then canned and frozen.
A recipe for orange jelly uses gelatine orange juice lemon juice sugar boiling and cold water with egg white and shell then layered with orange segments and chilled. A new English pitcher for iced drinks keeps ice separate with a glass inner cylinder to preserve flavor.
Brighten silverware with oatmeal rubbing. Clean windows with chamois or alcohol. Remove a window pane with a hot poker on putty. Layer carpet linings for a soft floor. Deter ants with borax and Persian insect powder. Hang pictures so centers align with eye level. Feed caged birds lettuce and celery tops. Use borax in salt to prevent dampness. Cornstarch keeps salt free of clumping. Large pictures reduce perceived room size. Drill glass with camphor oil turpentine solution. Toughen lamp chimneys by cooling in water then heating. Cayenne pepper wards ants. spread on shelves. Water crackers with cheese become salad sandwiches. Bind rug edges with carpet webbing to prevent curling. Do not finish meringue in hot oven. cool and brown. Polish mirrors with whiting in muslin bags, dampen glass, rub, and wipe with newspaper.
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