15 Jul 1892
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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1892
Page
1
A lyrical nocturnal verse invokes dawn to depart and restore night. The speaker entreats June skies to yield to stars and restore peaceful calm, praising the night’s healing quiet and resisting the sun’s blaze. The poem centers on longing, restraint, and the domain of celestial imagery.
In a quiet suburb a tramp invades the Burton home while Mrs Burton is away and the children hide in fear. Jack, Roxy, and Lizzie outwit the intruder with courage as Jack locks doors and distracts the thief, who is captured by a carpenter and neighbors. The family reunites, grateful for the boy’s quick thinking and a safe finish.
A British firm introduces an improved steam powered tree felling and crosscutting machine. Mounted on a strong axle with wheels, the saw can swing to any angle from horizontal to vertical. Adjustable shafts and slotted stays allow elevation changes to suit high or low logs, promising faster work than prior models. Boston Transcript.
A Malaachusetts genus has invented a carpet loom that can produce Brussels carpets of the most elaborate foul pattern at the rate of a square yard a minute. In France a well dressed man with thick shoe soles is briefly noted in English.
Long-standing talk of a Nicaragua canal as a quicker route between oceans is recounted, tracing failed schemes, private company efforts, and U.S. involvement options. The piece shifts to a vivid description of coyote hunting relays, where successive predators pursue a jackrabbit in a tireless, communal chase.
In dim morning light across Mumboldt Poranagat Mason and nearby valleys a tawny army of coyotes gathers in hunting formations. The pack assembles at reveille and greets a desert chorus as they fan out to chase a jack rabbit breakfast. Coyotes spread into a long ellipse as a wary jack is pursued, tested by the wind and swift on legs.
A Washington Star excerpt describes two mud fish. One is the Gillichthys, named after the writer’s namesake, a goby-like creature eight inches long living in mud banks and feeding on small crustaceans. The other is a South Sea Island mud fish that hops on mud and climbs tree roots seeking crustaceans and a special slug.
Boston Transcript recounts the 1749 Palatine voyage from Holland to America with wealthy passengers, where starvation and exploitation by officers and crew led to deaths. A 1825 law made false claims to wreck ships a felony with ten years’ imprisonment and fines up to five thousand dollars.
The clearing house began to simplify settling debts by exchanging bills and drafts without bank visits. Originating among London bankers, it evolved from daily mutual checks to a system exchanged by 4 o'clock each day. The first US clearing house was created by New York banks in 1853, now common in major cities.
Amos Lane has devised a giant clock driven by a geyser that erupts every thirty eight seconds to advance the mechanism. The clock will be erected in a prominent site, with bubbles and rising spray signaling each 38 second interval, creating a unique timepiece claimed to keep perfect time and be world’s only example.
Millinery reports from Paris promote tying strings at the knot side under the chin for cooler wear, a revival suited to rounded faces. Other fashion notes discuss airy neck hinges, fichus with lace edges, and delicate feather tips from ostrich plumes, plus summer gowns and washing skirts with practical, elegant trimming and fabrics.
A collage of home crafts and cooking notes includes a corsage style pillow trim, tobacco smoke remedies, a mint sauce method, and various recipes. Sections cover cookies, cheese and egg toast, peach pie, pressed veal, and humorous anecdotes from periodicals.
A scattered survey of early science notes and oddities. It covers an alleged languor from Lettico, a somnambulist walking fifteen miles in sleep, a hinged sole invention for easy wear, solar eclipses, a powerful electric locomotive in Baden Zurich, and Alaskan yellow mackerel. Also described are a new lightning arrester, human body proportions, gunpowder impulse engines, an anecdote about a witty social misstep, a curious London telephone line using electric light for telephony, and a grand cathedral in Mexico City.
A 14 foot nine hundred pound sturgeon was caught on the razor river by W. T. Vianen. It tangled in a Canadian net and ripped it, causing loss as the fish sold at three cents a pound would value the catch at twenty seven dollars, leaving a costly setback for the fisher.
A joke exchanges between a pompous judge and a young lawyer. The judge asks about his main practice. The lawyer replies he practices mainly in economy, delivering a concise quip on professional focus.
A collage of jokes and quips sits alongside a sobering New York Times excerpt on Louisiana levees. The piece juxtaposes light humor about manners and manners with a detailed account of river defenses. It notes the vast levee system built since 1873, its height and base, and the enormous costs. The Times recounts two major flood outbreaks in 1888 and 1893 that devastated cities and show the peril of breaks, with land flooding far inland and limited hope to stem the flow.
A quirky OCR fragment notes two coincidences about marriages and birthdays. The piece mentions an exchange between two people and references the Buito Courier in California. It hints at preparations for a World’s Fair display involving twenty stalls of special ginza fare.
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