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Newspaper
Bluffton Banner
Location
Bluffton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1894
Page
11
Mary Derwent, Paris, notes the city’s peak fashion season with vivid accounts of new gowns, ornate embroideries, and daring combinations. She highlights the Marquise de Nicolay as a leading style icon, describes maize and black ensembles, intricate peau de laine fabrics, and novel headpieces.
JeLliette M. Bassitt describes Clara Mosely Barry Maxwell of Ann Arbor Michigan a charming hostess and devoted wife mother and social figure in Washington Joining the Maxwell household near Dupont Circle she engaged in musical festival work and oversaw the education of her two daughters while maintaining her refined New Washington social life.
A compact outline of palmistry motifs cites lines and mounts across the hand. It notes life line position, mounts such as Saturn and Moon, spatulated fingers signaling energy, and signs like stars on Jupiter or Mars indicating ambition, misfortune, or crime, with warnings on how finger bases alter these traits.
A collection of quirky habits and interests from famous figures across eras. Liszt played for hours at the piano, Leigh Hunt rode London omnibuses, De Noyers loved thunder and despised most instruments save the drums, Prince Rupert dabbled in chemistry and invented glass drops, Charles V amassed 900 volumes, Tycho Brahe disliked foxes, Hazlitt drank strong tea, Berlioz could only play the guitar poorly, Ptolemy Lagus was a sharp book collector, Herrick kept pigs as pets, Handel dined in odd multiples, Garrick learned from street life, Wordsworth walked for exercise, Bacon designed court costumes, Valerian wrote Beards while traveling, and Michael Angelo enjoyed poetry as a relief from art.
Popular Science notes that full moon light is 300000 times weaker than the sun at noon. It reports a large high altitude lake discovery in the Olympic Mountains by two hunters. Granite described as the lowest earth crust rock, parent rock of all others, devoid of life, and vastly thicker than many rocks. Dew is said to reveal colors, with moisture on yellow and green nights but not on red or black. Chandiron's cinnamon antiseptic claim is tested against microbes by M. Chamberlan, comparable to corrosive sublimate in effect. Johns Hopkins runs venom experiments on rattlesnake bites, injecting venom into rabbits to study outcomes after death.
A fragmentary note recalls a fatherly moment about a son visiting a circus. The voice reflects regret and reflects on a memory of entering under the tent, hinting at a past hardship or misstep. The text presents a personal, emotional glimpse rather than a reported event.
In a fashionable coastal resort, Miss Granby charms courtiers as a wave filled night ends with a daring rescue by Jack Romaine. Years later Louise Granby finds fame in London opera while Romaine’s unseen wife seeks salvage for a life saved, leading to a marriage of convenience and enduring bond.
A catalog of palmistry observations describes a liver line from Mercury mount to the moon, indicating capricious character, and how pointed fingers signal rapid conception. It notes the head and heart line union showing controlled passion, explains the fourth Mercury finger and money-making skill, and defines a useful hand as short, broad, with moderate finger length and a strong thumb.
EXxX-Postmaster Wanamaker suffers grip while London rages over an Austrian giant named Eiss with hair longer than Paderewski’s. Ex-banker H. E. Cork plots a jail newspaper from Tuscumbia Alabama as his wife sells ads. Zola hails journalism’s world fraternity in Paris. Duchess of Cleveland goes to South Africa to collect plants. Bjornson abandons politics for a social drama. Neal Dow nears 90 as temperance movements plan a century milestone. Rumors of a Kerry dukedom for Lord Lansdowne surface in England. Mme Taine edits proofs for Originès de la France Contemporaine. Taine’s work near completion. Attorney General Olney, a strong pulpiteer, ranks among top Boston lawyers. The Prince of Wales’s pet parrot at Sandringham shouts for the queen when visitors arrive, after being bought in Trafalgar Square. Bishop Ethelbert Talbott narrates Idaho gambling-house legends funding a church, drawing in local supporters.
A collection of dated aphorisms and remarks from historical figures. Contains lines attributed to Fouche Queen Christina Walpole Snecretes Napoleon and Xantippe with pithy observations on death politics and gender.
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