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Newspaper
Bluffton Banner
Location
Bluffton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1893
Page
3
The Almanac from The Hosteteer Company at Pittsburgh will feature accurate astronomical calculations and calendars, with statistics humor and general information plus illustrations. It will be issued in multiple languages and printed on Hosteteer presses, distributed by druggists and country dealers at no cost.
A story about Wilkie Collins recounts a visitor claiming she could invent better villains than his The Woman in White. She jokes that her own husband is the ultimate villain, and Collins never revealed her name, noting she was Bulwer Lytton’s wife.
Donald Kennedy of Roxbury Massachusetts announces a remedy from common weeds that supposedly cures all ailments from scrofula to pimples. He cites eleven hundred cases with two failures and over two hundred certificates within twenty miles of ten. He warns of shooting pains when lungs or liver are affected, says no diet change is needed, and prescribes one tablespoonful in water at bedtime.
A New York Evening Sun feature recalls Couldock the actor linked with Hazel Kirke and his nickname Twenty Years Ago. An anecdote from a road company memo reveals Couldock's blunt caution to a hopeful actor about saving money and implying dire consequences for failure.
Patti explains how she bought her castle and preserves her voice at Craig y Nos. She notes the pure dry air, strict room temperatures under 66, limited gas, open windows for ventilation, and brief daily scale practice. She believes air quality supports her voice more than Italian climate.
In an interview with Figaro Sarah Bernhardt reflects on travels improving health and ideas. She notes stronger mise en scene understanding in England and America versus Paris, praising realistic detail but lamenting traditionalism in French theater.
A dancer recalls rehearsing two weeks for a benefit matinee as a leading performer objects to an encore for the minuet. The dispute centers on whether the minuet should have an encore and prompts the dancers to retreat to their dressing rooms if the audience insists.
The piece notes many young women seek stage careers yet few succeed. One in four who try to start may last beyond the first season, with overcrowded ranks and scant encouragement pushing many to abandon performances. Some shift from lead roles to serving as banners in spectacles.
Berlin audiences hail Gerhardt Hauptmann's new play Hannele about a paper girl in a squalid almshouse. The work unfolds through her delirious dream on a wholly dark stage, blending ultra naturalism with heavy symbolism and making a powerful continental impression.
The serpentine dance is linked to Tanagra and revived Manadic dances on Greek vases, say archaeologists. They note modern ballet offers rich material for study and that researchers examine ruins for clues.
Theatre notes report Autnouan insisting his new play A Piece of Steel is entirely original. Epward Beeramwys’s Looking Backward may be staged soon with Frank E. Swan dramatizing it.
A sweet faced old lady and her son John share a tender reunion on a train. Emma and Frank, also traveling, dine separately while John carries a worn basket used for lunch. The scene ends with John escorting the mother to a carriage in Chicago, leaving Emma unseen.
A New York society figure Rawlins Cottenet begins selling flowers from a Fifth Avenue shop after losing his fortune. The piece notes lavish costs of servants and luxuries, questions sustainability of aristocratic excess, and cites hidden costs of luxury in the old New Yorker economy.
A family scene on Fourth Avenue ends in panic as a mother clings to her infant while servants summon the family physician. The frantic hour includes a scream and a tense search as the doctor arrives to ease the distress and tend to the newborn.
A distressed mother pleads with a physician about her infant's beating heart. The doctor coldly replies that if the heartbeat stops, the baby will die, a stark moment reported by the Louisville Courier-Journal.
The Jaureguiberry, built in under two years, is described as the finest French ironclad afloat with speed potential of 17 to 17.5 knots. Its armament includes 44 ton guns and 34 ton guns, all trainable without trim loss, and it features extensive electricity for propulsion and lighting with 550 incandescent lights and six Mangin searchlights.
The Nuggar tank in Karachi hosts over 200 crocodiles eight to fifteen feet long in stagnant green waters. Buffaloes share the swamp while other animals are seized, and locals cite sacred status tied to a nearby Mohammedan tomb. The scene is vividly recalled as one of the most loathsome spots observed.
Colonel Joe Dowling recounts a career linked to Friday as he takes the Cincinnati collectorship. He notes multiple Friday milestones from marriage to deputy sheriff appointment and official duties, joking that Friday may be his lucky day while predicting Friday as his final day.
A Baltimore Herald quote describes how railroad insurers profit from major wrecks. It explains that disasters drive immediate sales of accident tickets, while the public repeatedly buys insurance as fear returns after a lull.
A reported stage moment shows a midnight London street with a shadowy figure stabbing a passerby. An elderly first-time theatergoer whispers anxiously that trouble will arise in the morning, reflecting on the dramatic tension.
The Charlestown News reports unprecedented swarms of rice birds in dikes and marshes behind the city. Birds are trapped with nets or dipped by boat, with large hauls and significant earnings for early buyers who ship them to town for about 25 cents a dozen.
Musician Al bert G Theis, a small framed tenor, faced an immense ostrich at Montagu Pass in Natal while in an opera troupe. The bird knocked him down and shredded his clothes before he stayed still on his chest as the ostrich danced overhead. A Hottentot passerby prompted the ostrich to chase, and the Boer observer noted the bird was costly to kill. Theis never returned to Africa.
An elderly Somersetshire resident, eager to stay informed, attends a church sociable. A young hostess announces a tableau, but the woman declares she already knows and even boasts she could smell the cooking from the door, highlighting dated social boundaries and humorous imagination.
Mrs Colin Campbell runs a cricket farm in Rochester rearing field crickets in glass jars and selling them to the superstitious who seek luck. Once well off New York people, twelve years of misfortune followed sickness and fire reducing them to want. The Charleston tale of spider pills as fever remedy is noted as a similar penny venture.
A Berg und Huettenmannische Zeitung computation claims sea water holds more salt than land. Seas cover 73 percent of Earth, about 9 260 000 German square miles, with average depth one half mile yielding 3 400 000 cubic miles of sea water. Each cubic mile holds roughly 25 000 kilograms of salt, implying vast potential salt content.
An American official urged Prince Bismarck to recommend his son for a diplomatic post. Bismarck mocked the idea noting the son's language ability, while quipping the boy would make a fine head waiter. The remark underscores the gulf between praise and capability in diplomacy.
A fanciful tale recalls a young serenader who sang beneath a pretty daughter’s window. Mistaking the bedroom for the daughter’s chamber, he performs several airs before ending with Home Sweet Home. The startled father calls out in a dry rebuke asking why the singer does not go home if he has such a home.
A fragment states Hall's Catarrh Cure as the only positive cure for catarrh and offers one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure. It mentions F J Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio and a list of testimonials, with Druggists selling the product.
Arabella discusses a Christmas gift a woolen comforter for sledding with Ned. An old advertisement promotes Dr Jayne’s Expectorant claiming relief for coughs and lung and throat issues, targeting women.
A reflective observation on authors divided into falling stars, planets, and fixed stars. It contrasts momentary impact, lasting influence, and immutable constant light guiding through time.
An old advertisement announces a mailed song booklet for 5 cents sent to D. G. Epwaxpr, Cincinnati. It includes a moral line about Heaven and a product plug for Brown’s Bronchial Troches touted for coughs and throat troubles, plus a quip on social chatter.
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