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Newspaper
Carroll Free Press
Location
Carrollton, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1908
Page
5
The first whale catching guns appeared in 1731 using swivels from warships. A stout thirty inch barrel mounted on whaleboats fired a short two barb harpoon linked to a sliding ring in the harpoon’s shank. Loading required loose powder and a flintlock. aiming was unreliable in rough seas and the gun often failed when wet. Forest and Stream notes limited success and dangers of firing into other boats.
From Rev Dr Newman and Hall, anecdotes recount a maid of honor's witty reply to a queen and Woodward the Windsor librarian guiding Princess Royal through miniatures. Cromwell’s remark prompts Woodward to praise the memory of the man whose struggle made a constitutional monarchy possible.
A London Notes and Queries contributor notes that the word ban zai emerged about 1892 at the Imperial University of Tokyo. Dr Shigeno, a leading Japanese literature expert, created it to match the English hurrah for congratulations, and the brief ban zai expression has spread worldwide.
In crowded Japanese cities fires consume many homes, so villagers build iron plated two story godowns to store valuables. These heavy sealed safes shield furniture, porcelain, kimonos, jewelry, and merchant stock, moved in for festivals then returned to concealment after guests depart. The system guards wealth against blaze.
A farmer debates crop rotation with a modern agricultural student. Uncle Ezra questions the system while the narrator explains plans for the field profits. Proceeds fund Elizabeth’s music, a horse trade, a city trip, and a concrete smokehouse, with future plans to hire Henry Absalom on shares.
The article discusses oak tree resilience and growth under forest dynamics. Saplings survive long periods in shade before sunlight returns, aided by acorns dispersed into pine woods. Young oaks face nibbling deer and other herbivores, yet seeds germinate and growth resumes after canopy openings.
A piece in the American Magazine reflects on courage and gratitude to a nation. It recalls a man, heir to a pork-packing fortune, who taught his children to show respect for wealth by honoring the sources of their wealth.
A woodman meets a bear moaning for honey while shedding his coat to avoid stings. The bear jokes about nature giving him protection yet making him want honey. Moral: no one is ever satisfied with a good thing. Nearby a young woman frets over two suitors Harold and Randolph, fearing ruin if she refuses, and humorously contemplates politics and lost opportunities.
A New York Press tidbit reports two friends leaving a financier’s inner office and debating why he avoids saying goodbye. They speculate his preference for woodby over goodbye, suggesting painful associations with Gondby and universal discomfort with certain parts of everyday speech.
A native Borneo plant known as the clock plant shows sun driven leaf movements. The trio of leaves includes a large forward leaf and two base leaves that swing with the sun. The large leaf oscillates up and down every forty five minutes while the smaller leaves swing with it completing a full forward and backward sweep in the same interval.
During a hustings moment in 1852 Macaulay energizes dull constituents with wit while his opponent is struck by a thrown dead cat. The assailant apologizes, claiming the cat was meant for the opponent. Macaulay quips that the blow should have landed on him if intended.
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