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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1905
Page
2
A Baltimore American item discusses spring garden labor as a season of toil and flavor, pairing reflections on garden mak in time with a playful science trick. It then explains how a sewing needle can float on water using surface tension, offering simple steps and a brief scientific rationale.
The passage explains a simple game where a player who sees a card unseen among neighbors seizes it and gives the seeker a card of his own. The first player out wins, and the quick, keen players taunt the slower neighbors, producing laughter and good-natured teasing.
A simple wood and string setup enables a salt artist to draw Lissajous curves. By balancing a funnel on cords and releasing from table corners, symmetrical or varied patterns emerge. The technique, attributed to a French discoverer, yields infinite designs as knots are moved.
A Berlin wool shop setup leads to a disappearing shilling illusion using a bent tin tube and a ball of worsted. The performer marks a borrowed shilling, drops it through a tube, winds a ball of worsted, and pulls the coin free as the audience unwinds the thread, culminating in a concealed money reveal.
This passage notes the camel as a remarkable cud chewing feeder able to browse thorny shrubs. It describes diet including barley cakes and dates, shows both Arabian and Bactrian camels eating unlikely items, and details seven callosities that protect the animal while resting.
A popular Japanese card game uses 100 proverbs split into two parts. The host reads the first halves aloud while players hold the second halves, placing a hand on the Tatami mat. When the first half is spoken, the holder of the matching second half discards it.
Players sit for a quick party duel as a ball is passed and a letter is chosen. A participant asks My ship is loaded with and another must name a noun starting with the letter chosen, such as beans for B. The ball then moves on with rapid throws and forfeits for wrong answers, creating lively, humorous responses.
A detailed, step by step guide describes making an amateur fire gong from a cigar box alarm clock bell screws a belt nut elastic band sticks paper strips and tacks. The device is assembled with bells tied to the box and numbered strips to indicate fire box alarms and alarm times.
A brief note presents a simple at home experiment on mercury and water showing varying effects of contact and illustrating capillary action. The piece invites readers to reproduce the device and observe differences in behavior between liquids and metals.
A demonstration shows glass tubes of various diameters dipped in water and mercury. Water rises higher in smaller tubes due to air pressure and capillary action, while mercury falls and curves upward in the center, with opposite behavior in larger tubes. A wedge of two glass pieces dipped in water forms a higher rise at the joint, reversed for mercury.
A Walter Irwin verse from the New York Globe depicts a noiseless battle featuring a Russian scientist, noiseless powder, noiseless cannon and smokeless smoke. The poem charted a silent clash where troops advance and retreat without sound, with wireless telegrams and polysyllabic noiseless oaths.
A Montreal Herald note discusses hair counts by color, estimating about 30 000 red hairs, 100 000 black hairs, and 150 000 fair hair on the scalp. It suggests daily shedding rates could predict time to baldness, noting hairs may regrow from the root.
Police expose two boys aged 12 and 14 described as budding Rockefellers. They swindled 9,000 percent on penny capital in a single day by pawning clothes to fund a watch and a 10 shilling loan, then used profits to boost their fledgling venture.
A Manchester Guardian naturalist correspondent recalls a ferret and wild rabbit living peacefully. He cites a case where a young polecat reared two rats, allowing them to suckle and sleep together, forming a constant companion and shared outings.
Ten year old Cyrus Knight of Great Barrington Vermont caused a stir last week by imitating a fire whistle using his lungs and a phonograph horn. The sound drew people from stores and homes as they rushed to locate the fire, though he did not signal a specific number.
The London Times annually prints Byron’s obituary on April 19 mentioning Geo Gordon Noel Lord Byron who died at Missolonghi on April 19, 1824. The notice honors the poet with lines from The Bride of Abydos and will continue under a bequest until Byron’s name is inscribed in Westminster Abbey.
In Overton near Wrexham England a church held an egg service to fund structural improvements. Congregation members brought over 1000 eggs which were placed around the pulpit and quickly sold, yielding a substantial sum for the project.
A 23 foot 6 inch wood chain, carved from a tree trunk by Knobnose natives in the Zoutspanberg district of Transvaal, is among curiosities shown at the Maritzburg museum in South Africa. The chain is continuous and required remarkable patience and endurance to produce.
The Rev. Robert Collyer in Brooklyn urges gentle guidance for children, arguing the way to weld character is to lead on softly not with harsh blows. He cites training method analogies from hammering, engines, and horses, and warns that hard discipline harms the soul, urging patience, education, and love.
Dr. R F Horton recounts a second Sunday return from months of treatment by a German oculist. In the waiting room his Bible text To Thou are my lamp, O Lord, and the Lord will lighten my darkness moves him to proclaim the words of the blessed Book regardless of sight.
The text proclaims duty outweighs life, citing Pompey’s choice to advance to danger rather than retreat to safety. It argues life is poorly valued when held above duty and warns that lying to preserve life exacts a greater personal and social price.
A Presbyterian Record excerpt contrasts kindness and faith with self interest and doubt. It argues that true sanctification comes from more than syllogisms and that hopeful life depends on aligning with God’s will rather than surrendering to fate. It emphasizes discernment between submission to God and inevitability.
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