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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1897
Page
7
A poetic excerpt by Thomas Harkness from Chambers's Journal contemplates the expiring year, night sky, and inner life. It muses on time, eternity, and the evolving whispers of human emotion as a horizon of sound and stillness.
A young soldier in Thuringia joins a social club led by the magistrate Herr Hammer and falls for the magistrate’s seventeen year old daughter Agnes. A misinterpreted message leads him to Hannah the cook instead of Agnes, causing a comic kitchen intrigue and a humorous yet rueful discovery of the deception. The affair ends with a fond memory of savory omelet meals and family life.
A New York physician warns that widespread cycling could alter human anatomy over generations. He predicts future riders will have larger knees and legs, elongated noses, long hooked hands, and a more curved, smaller torso as exercise reshapes the body through natural selection and muscular distribution.
A Philadelphia Record note describes a blotting pad made from compressed bibulous stone. Formed by sediment from hot springs, it is touted as inexhaustible and highly porous. It absorbs ink better than any blotting paper, with only a knife scrape needed to refresh.
The article discusses longevity across the Americas, noting War ner’s Harper's Monthly view that climate matters less than worry and pace of life. It cites Peregrine White and a 106-year Pilgrim deacon, and recounts high age in Peru, Ecuador, and Mexico with centenarians and a 192-year record at Te Lunca, illustrating diverse regions where long life occurs despite upheaval and revolutions.
Dr Sheldon Jackson travels home after inspecting Alaska reindeer work in Siberia. A Laps colony has shown superior handling of reindeer. August saw 118 head donated to Cape Prince of Wales mission for a second herd.100 head to be loaned to Antesilook Soonawhasie Iziksie Kok towak and Suppuk for five years, with returns and private ownership details. Urgent requests rise for reindeer teams to aid mining interior rivers Yukon supply lines. Forty Mile Creek lacks dog teams, increasing need for trained reindeer transport as new mines expand.
The Washington Star notes leather furniture does not rust if genuine and offers care tips. Rub with a sponge in soapy water, dry in sun, then rub briskly with a coal oil damp cloth, and air to dissipate odor.
A glass telltale milk jug is devised in England. It is graduated at every quarter pint with etched lines below the pint mark to indicate cream thickness and milk quality along with quantity, showing cream depth for average, good, and very good milk.
In Georgetown suburb a setter named Ponto fought a large eagle that grabbed the child of a man named Kincaide. The dog, badly torn, persisted until the eagle fled and the child was saved. The dog, though wounded, survived and receives care from the family.
The New York Recorder notes Paris exceeds in free municipal libraries with over fifty branches lending music and designs, while the Bibliotheque Nationale houses over 3,000,000 volumes but remains chaotic. Access is hindered by strict formalities and strict loan checks, unlike the welcoming British Museum.
Paul Liecester Ford recounts a voyage with 500 saloon passengers who plotted to evade duties and bribe customs inspectors. He compares luxury travelers to crowded city blocks, arguing vice exists across classes and that first class passengers showed striking propensity for deceit. The piece from the New York Times surveys social hypocrisy and moral risk among society’s tiers.
The Philadelphia Press explains Bowery comes from the Dutch bouwerij meaning till or cultivate, road cut through Gov ernor Stuyvesant's farm. The Lenderloin, between Fifth and Seventh Aves and Twenty third to Thirty fourth Sts, earned its name from police view as a prime area for gambling and graft, hosting maisons de joie.
The article argues against panic over cattle tuberculosis, noting 2,270,000 slaughtered cattle from May 1891 to March 1892 with only two percent infected. It says milk supply remains safe, TB is not as contagious as some claim, and urges less sensational “forehead” science from Breaders' Gazette.
A.Gibbons recounts a Curious Pearl incident from Gentleman's Magazine. The Smithsonian displayed a pink pearl the size of a pigeon's egg formed in a freshwater mussel with a beeswax nucleus. The mussel, kept in an aquarian, coated the core with nacre. The piece suggests a potential for small pearl factories by farming mussels.
A New York News item warns that watches can harbor bacteria or germs after illness or exposure. It advises patients to have doctors inspect and clean the watch as part of careful medical care and prevention.
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