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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1896
Page
7
Missouri Cor discusses sweet potato culture on a gravelly yellow clay soil once an old peach orchard. Details include bed preparation, ridge width, transplant timing from mid March, shallow cultivation, and vine management with variable results. It cites a seven pound potato and a nameless red variety, emphasizing good plants, early setting, and wide mellow ridges.
Household hints describe making small sugar and egg white kisses flavored with peppermint to pair with coffee. It also shares window glass cleaning with vinegar and hot-water wiping, plus a codfish dish from the New York School of Cooking involving parboiled fillet, milk, onion juice, butter, white pepper, paprika, walnuts, and a light brown finish in the oven.
Rosa Bonheur at seventy four is celebrated by a London exhibition showing a powerful commission depicting the historic English duel between two stallions owned by Lord Godolphin. Other notes include Senator Sawyer’s daughters receiving $25,000 each after cooking a dinner, royal marriage chatter, and a tale of a tame butterfly revived by feeding.
In Paris the Court of Cassation publicly proclaimed Mme Druaux innocent after years of imprisonment. The 1877 case in Malaunay, Lower Seine, charged her with poisoning her husband and brother amid strong witness testimony.
A collage of social chatter and satire opens with diners and dressers debating eggs and bicycles, moves through a church membership split, and includes a playful missive about a Houston editor calling a Galveston editor an ass. The piece then shifts to an old French murder case: Mme Druaux condemned, later proven innocent by lime-kiln exhalations, Goujon’s defense, and a Cassation decree restoring public innocence.
New Zealand proposes a practical scheme to destroy rabbits with a reward of 1000 dollars. A telephone line connecting New York and Chicago is described as twice the length of the longest known line, requiring nearly a million tons of copper wire. A colt born in Carmel Massachusetts was tiny at birth and carried by a man to his sick child, later carried by a woman in her nerves, and grew into a promising animal.
A New York Herald encounter lampoons a physician proposing to replace organs with various stomach and lung substitutes. The satire details buckskin, chamois, cowhide stomachs and rubber, brass, steel lungs for different users, claiming future mixed lungs as a great invention.
Greek barber surgeons in Le tvant employ large ants to join wound edges. Forcing the ant with forceps, its mandibles spread as it grips the edges, then its head is severed yet it holds the edges together. Reports show patients with ant heads bridging cuts, the species identified as big headed Formic species Componotus.
Professor Dieulafoy of Paris argues appendicitis arises from progressive calculus formation like liver and kidney stones. He cites experiments where appendicitis was induced surgically in rabbits to support the theory. A New York florist paid 10000 for exclusive rights to the Michigan carnation Murella, a very large deep red flower.
The Pope of Rome and the Sultan of Turkey are noted as the only European rulers who never change residence. The Sultan has remained in Constantinople since his accession in a period described as tragic nineteen years ago, while the Pope has stayed within the Vatican since his coronation.
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