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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1905
Page
2
Joy runs through verses about winter and spring, while odd tricks with an empty egg and a blown wood cone amuse readers. A disjointed lament on animal ailments follows, listing many species with various health issues from lips to lungs and fins to feet.
A magician guides volunteers to match domino blocks by adjacent pips then leaves. He returns and states the final total on the two last blocks. The trick relies on secretly removing a doubleless tile so end numbers align, with a replaceable block for repeated runs.
A fragment describes air flow effects through holes to move a candle flame, plus a party game of punning state abbreviations. Players answer 12 posed questions with answers like Massachusetts Maine Washington Pennsylvania and Ohio, amid a quip about delicate wild animals.
A riddle about a square window whose height equals its width. It asks how to make the window twice as large without increasing height or width. The answer hinges on geometric transformation, not physical resizing, illustrating a clever logic twist.
A note on animal numbers suggests limited counting ability in birds and fishes. It describes carrion crows reacting to the departure of two or three men, and wood pigeons fleeing only when two of three men leave, indicating a small numerical sense.
The phrase stems from Westminster Abbey once serving as a cathedral named St Peter. After the bishop and estates moved to St Pauls, the saying emerged describing diverting funds from Peter to Paul.
Simple step by step instructions describe creating a toy elevator and a small derrick from wood dowels, hairpins, screws, and wood scraps. The project covers making sliding components, windlasses, cranks, brakes, and a stable base, with cautions on hole alignment for smooth operation. The final device can lift small objects from floor to table and illustrates basic mechanical assembly using common hardware.
The poem recalls watching shooting stars and counting fireflies with a girl during summer. Weathered romance lingers as meteors dwindle while memory holds the azure sky. The speaker longs for spring and cleaner days as a sudden, sharp line from Cleveland Leader hints at eager excuses fading.
Rich ard Halstead, a mason, was found crouching behind a box as a crowd queued. Jewelry worth over £100 was seized, the intruder had cut a roof access but an iron staircase door blocked entry. he slid down a rope to reach the shop, the lift rope broke, leaving him trapped until the area was secured. A second item reports Chief the water spaniel rescued after 21 days buried beneath seven stories of ruin during a fire at the Cash Buyers Union home in West Van Buren street. nursing restored the dog to gentleness. Medical experts say survival beyond six days under such conditions is unlikely.
Theodore Waters describes the Calumet and Hecla copper mine as the deepest on earth with vast tunnels beneath Lake Superior. In a separate item, J. M Thrash of Davidson River asks his 91 year old mother for permission to wed Molly Maxwill of Brevard, the wedding occurring with the mother celebrating her birthday.
An English church organist, not a pedestrian in normal terms, walked twenty miles weekly to play the organ for fifty-one years. He never missed a Sabbath and was never late, only failing to appear once in all that time.
Christian Jensen reports a year in the Arctic seas and a Greenland coast encounter. A party from the interior arrived, the shortest seven feet tall and the tallest nine feet, copper-colored and with North American Indian features, described in the London Tit-Bits.
A West Falmouth woman famed for precise work faced a nervous episode after she steamed a half full lard pail and tried to serve it with beans in her Saturday meal. The mishap stemmed from a long held habit of using a lard pail for cooking.
Work continues on a brewery well at South Manchester New Hampshire. After two months the depth reaches 760 feet, mainly through solid granite ledge. No satisfactory water supply yet, and the dust brought to the surface remains as dry as powder.
In Strong Place Baptist Church Rev. Alfred Morse outlines two hidden hands shaping man sorrow and joy. True happiness rises beyond appetite and work to blessedness through love faith conscience and self sacrifice. The path to joy includes poverty of spirit mercy meekness hunger for righteousness purity and peacemaking leading to seeing God and heaven.
The Rev. Dr. Josiah Strong extols self sacrifice, saying a cathedral window appears dull from outside but reveals heavenly light when entered, and consecration to God for service, though seen as dull, yields beauty and blessedness through divine love.
The reverend argues daily acts shape character more than grand deeds. He compares simple knitting needles and common wool to the ordinary means by which we forge enduring, noble character through our chosen methods.
The text outlines four rules guiding General Gordor's life: forgetfulness of self, absolute sincerity, indifference to worldly judgments, and absorption in the will of God. It calls the greatest rule the surrender to God's will, as preached by Pacific Baptist.
Sunday School Times emphasizes true virtue resides in reverence of heart rather than outward attitude during worship, urging believers to seek genuine devotion and humility in their worship practice.
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