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A poem speaks of softened light concealing skeletons kept from sight. The speaker fears a harsher glare may expose sullied honor and tarnished name once hidden in the heart.
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Newspaper
Chehalis Bee
Location
Chehalis, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1897
Page
6
A poem speaks of softened light concealing skeletons kept from sight. The speaker fears a harsher glare may expose sullied honor and tarnished name once hidden in the heart.
Boris Sidis contrasts medieval and modern mass phenomena in a Century essay excerpt. He describes mobs, riots, panics, and hysterical epidemics sweeping Europe and warns a future historian may view our era as dark and cruel due to wars, economic crises, and mobs.
The article describes venomous sea fish that wound rather than eat when defending themselves. It details the sea dragon and the scorpena scropha with their spine glands, how their venom travels through wounds, and the severe, spreading pain and suffocation that can follow a sting.
George Kennan writes for The St. Nicholas about how the Atlantic cable’s success halted his Siberian overland telegraph project. He recalls meeting Captain Hamilton of the Sea Breeze who confirms the cable’s reach and energy in London news, leaving Kennan’s plan seemingly edged out by new global communications.
Article notes extremely rare truly wild horses, including Tartars’ untamable stock, encountered by G E Grum Grizmailo in western China. It also reports Italy’s proposal to nationalize quinine sales, a five foot yew tree atop a Somerset parish church, and skewed Western Australia population figures with 45 females per 100 males arriving by sea.
Early in 1760 a lithophagus arrived in Avignon who swallowed stones and reduced them to powder with his teeth. He chewed flint and gravel into paste and found the process agreeable to his digestion. His corrosive saliva stained iron floors, resisting cleaning by scrubbing compounds.
A London Folio joke features a lawyer pressing a doctor about a testator's mind and the physician noting post mortem insanity, a term for a mania to leave money to charities after death, implying a witty financial motive.
A humorous remark on middle aged women and vanity from the Chicago Record contrasts with praise for a stunning English church at Whitley Court Worcestershire. The church features white marble construction marble pews and a Carrara marble pulpit adorned with precious stones.
The drug Coculus indicus is ground and mixed with dough and broadcast on water like seeds. Fish swim to the surface in large numbers after ingestion and are collected into vessels with clear water for processing.
The text notes that the owl’s eye globe is fixed in its socket by a rigid cartilaginous case and lacks motion, yet the bird compensates by turning its head around in nearly a full circle without shifting its body.
A traveler from Rangun aims for the most direct route to New York and expects to complete the journey in 34 days. The plan emphasizes speed and efficiency, detailing the chosen path and anticipated travel constraints.
Clement Howell plans a prank on a unaware married woman, leading to a scuffle with a policeman who retrieves the pocketbook and warns the wife she will be summoned as a witness. The man reveals the joke and the couple reconciles, stressing how easy robbery looks but how harmless it was.
A description details bluefish quickly attacking a school of 12 inch menhaden, swallowing many in seconds and leaving trails of blood. The text notes the fish eats aggressively, often 20 to 30 menhaden per minute, then regurgitates and repeats the pattern, illustrating the predator’s relentless feeding behavior.
A cheerful young man jokes with a merchant asking about business as notes promise uncertain timeframes. The piece explains six step patent locks can be changed many times, making duplicate keys unlikely. A final verse reflects on self command and charity.
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