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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1894
Page
7
A fragmentary note on George Macdonald's meditation quoted in the London Spectator. It references duty, kinship, love, and divine will shaping the soul, with archaic phrasing and partial lines. The piece evokes moral and spiritual themes through poetic diction.
The Youth's Companion reports on how cobra venom is obtained from living snakes and the properties of the venom. It notes boiling destroys potency, ammonia and chlorine water can reduce action, carbolic acid delays it, and strychnia offers no cure. No effective cobra bite antidote exists.
English towns adopt a Bunsen burner based safety furnace to heat a stack of cylindrical rings and cones. Sewer gases pass through these surfaces, contact the hot metal, and are destroyed before exiting to the atmosphere. The device includes an intermediate ring to separate combustion from air passages and uses external air for the burner.
The government charges women 10 to 12 dollars a year for the privilege to wear trousers. The right is awarded as a merit tribute, not a universal permission. Only a few named women have been granted the right, including George Sand Rosa Bonheur Mme Dieulafoy and two stonecutters.
The New York Tribune discusses Boston’s secondhand plate glass trade where dealers acquire glass from insurance companies. Owners often prefer insurers replace broken panes rather than pay for the piece, and dealers recycle the remaining unbroken portions of the glass.
The text explains why observers always see the same lunar hemisphere. It states the Moon rotates once on its axis in the same time it orbits Earth, keeping the same surface region facing us.
Canada’s enterprising banker runs a mobile bank aboard a steamer on Kootenai lake, serving lake village residents with financial services. A frog cannot breathe with its mouth open and requires jaw closure for suffocation, while a Bombay health officer opposes crocodile destruction as vital scavengers. The Newcomes notes courage in bearing persecution and forgiving wrongs.
A Chicago News item quotes a State Street jeweler noting a rapid rise in men wearing bracelets, seen as a private accessory kept hidden under wide cuffs. He reports brisk sales over ten days, with buyers often insisting the piece fits inside cuffs to avoid public display amid street gambling fears.
A respected clergyman in his sixties plans to marry the young woman he rescued as a hungry orphan girl over twenty years ago. She rose to become a capable instructor in his home and now accepts his proposal despite friends urging caution.
Colonel Oliver P. Johnson of Washington married Miss Rachel Owen of Racine Wisconsin in Cleveland at the bride’s sister's home. The groom called her brave and noted she met him half way traveling alone. reporters were later given their names and addresses on a note labeled very romantic.
Morning Shenandoah to St Clair trestle incident ends with two men surviving after clinging to the spans as the Pennsylvania railroad train neared the ninety foot high structure. Both men avoided a deadly fall, narrowly escaping on the trestling while the locomotive halted on the approach.
A dialogue from a cold day in suburbia notes an icy back yard and a near slip. Mrs Suburb recalls little Georgie asking to wash the carriage, and Mr Suburb jokes about a toboggan slide as a rare useful effort.
A Portland resident reports discovering a remarkably preserved mastodon tooth while digging a well. He describes the tooth as about ten inches tall with a 9 by 4 inch face and an estimated weight of fifteen pounds, claiming it is a fossil.
A Rolls county resident found the voting booth too small on election day and a sheriff improvised a screen with horse blankets. In Sedalia the electric light plant broke causing a jump from 500 to 2000 volts, bursting globes and stirring a brief commotion in street cars.
A footpad was seized in a Hungarian town along with a bear he had tamed to grapple pedestrians for robbery. Police report the combined offense and capture occurred shortly before dawn. The arrest follows a spate of urban predations and wildlife-assisted thefts in the region.
The article describes a Cairo Street display featuring a wedding procession with a bride carried by camels, a moulid festival scene, Hindoo juggler performances, a temple of Luxor replica with obelisks, and an Egyptian antiquities collection including statues and a sphinx.
The last census shows 1 124 310 widows and 484 990 widowers in England and Wales. Married people total 4 851 548 men and 4 916 649 women. Many husbands were abroad on census night, explaining the disparity. Foreign residents numbered 169 814, per the London Telegraph.
A new airbag device tested in Pennsylvania coal mines proves effective for rescue. The setup includes a canvas back bag with a nose-strap, a mouth hose, a small battery and an incandesc lamp. Rescuers can enter after explosions without ill effects when fire damp makes entry risky.
A Walker county Georgia woman riding to church touched a bush sprig and was bitten on the finger by a katydid. Her hand and arm swelled rapidly and she died within hours in severe agony as reported by the Atlanta Constitution.
A man of moderate means reads of the treasury balance in the papers. He notes the $100,000,000 gold reserve and the additional $11,500,000, finding Uncle Sam’s figures ample. He adds that some would be satisfied with far less.
A well known woman writer states that woman’s industry cannot be displayed at a fair. She asserts the only fair to show her work will be the day of judgment, emphasizing the distinction of women’s labor.
A Boston Globe note states a Kentucky judge has ruled it legal for girls to smoke cigarettes on public streets, implying little incentive for girls to smoke.
An old native Subahdar commands a semi military jail guard in a colonial setting. The jailer reports daily to the magistrate with discipline, even delivering a humorous note about the jail cat asking for extra milk rations, provoking restrained laughter from the magistrate.
The article explains Panama hats are named for the Panama port, though made in Ecuador and nearby regions. Hats are woven from screw pine leaf fibers grown on the Andes slopes, with each hat a single plaited piece. Production is slow, with fine hats taking months. about 200,000 dozen produced yearly, priced from five to one hundred dollars.
Bay State Watch Case Co has closed stocks and joined the present St Watch Co So through a jobbing house we offer these cases while in stock A nearly elegant 14K solid gold Gent’s watch with Waltham Elgin Hampden or Columbia movement from 24 dollars upward available for a limited time at our store only Call to examine early as they will not last long
The Gentleman's Magazine reports Dr Haughton estimating Earth’s age from rock thickness to the Miocene and applying an 8616 year per foot deposition rate to reach 1 526 750 000 years. Denudation at ten times ancient rates and a one third addition after the Miocene yield 200 000 000 years, though Dr Croll questions the assumed total thickness of 177 200 feet as too great.
An enthusiast explains clover anatomy with sixty flower tubes per head and sugar limits of five hundredth of a grain per tube. The bee must probe 500 tubes for one grain of sugar. With 7000 grains per pound and honey being three quarters dry sugar, one pound of clover honey equates to 2 500 000 tube insertions.
Maine farmers adopt new defense against crows using discarded tin scraps. They gather baskets of metal, set up pole displays that dazzle the sun and deter birds livestock and even travelers, signaling a tin field is in view.
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