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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1886
Page
1
A nostalgic lyric by W. A. Ment, printed in the Detroit Free Press, recalling a lost romance. The speaker pleads for a single chance to see the beloved again and regain peace, accepting scorn and sorrow if that reunion were possible. The verse contrasts tender longing with lasting heartache.
On a hillside piazza a tale unfolds of Susie Dalton taking a roan horse to visit her sister in Massachusetts. The horse, stirred by marching drums, breaks from restraint and joins a trooper parade led by Captain Drew, who offers to swap mounts, sparking curiosity about Susie’s return on a stranger horse.
Weymouth recalls Susie making a good bargain in horse trading then blushes and a captain’s arrival. She marries Captain Drew in a church ceremony amid trooper lore and later reflects her first ride with the troopers. The piece ties military life to small town lore and a horse named Blucher.
A San Francisco Call account recalls a pearl diving season dominated by fear of sharks. An experienced diver describes facing a legendary man eater with a barbed harpoon and keg rig, claiming the creature vanished after a dramatic capture.
A Washington Republican item explains Senator Don Cameron of Pennsylvania avoids prefixes on hotel registers. Clerks add prefixes like Senator or General, prompting Cameron to adopt a front dash to shield his name. The dash evolves to longer forms or even the word Senator after his name, reflecting a playful hotel register etiquette debate.
The article reports trials of a new French horse shoe made entirely from sheep’s horn. It is said to improve horse stability on pavements, preventing slips. Three horses shod with the horn shoe reportedly endured rapid roadway driving, and the shoe is described as more durable though pricier than iron, with potential to replace it.
Missionary John Edwards reports that Choctaw is a fine sounding tongue suited for speech and trade. The Choctaws have a representative government led by Edmund McCurtain, a general council, and a two year chief cycle. Education is growing with schools at Spencer New Hope Wheelock and local neighborhood schools funded per pupil.
Reports note rivers move inches daily in warm months and half that in winter. A Hanoverian doctor links malaria suppression to water plants from Canada and urges their introduction. The French Academy of Sciences inherits Madame Pinson’s fortune for a political economy prize for workers. Britain’s steam economy could exceed 400 million laborers. A cork fabric aims at buoyant unsinkable garments. Perth wells reach 3120 feet for hot water at 158 F, to 176 F later. Meyrin seals wells as barometers. Milan area exposes mastodon bones with measurements.
A compact meditation on self control and virtue. It observes the value of restraint in speech, the parity of charity and recompense, and the hidden strength of habit. It notes memory's dual nature and the divergent impact of guidance versus admonition.
The piece surveys spires as the pinnacle of medieval design, noting their purely internal evolution independent of external models. It discusses the pointed arch and spire origins, debating possible Egyptian or Saracenic influences and concluding the spire arose from internal stylistic currents in European architecture.
A Paris Letter cites the virtues of coffee for marching troops and tourists. It warns against drinking from the first well and recommends filling flasks with coffee for long walks to prevent rapid tissue decay and typhus risk.
The San Francisco Chronicle describes a voyage toward Glacier Bay Alaska with a massive ice wall rising 200 to 600 feet above sea level. Eight miles from shore sixteen tributary glaciers feed a three mile front, forming a dramatic frozen barrier. Professor John Muir notes the glacier bears its rightful name.
An approximate calculation from 1870 71 German and French losses suggests only one rifle ball in about 1000 fired proved fatal. The estimate cites 20 million balls fired with 140000 dead or wounded, implying about 1 in 1000 shots caused death, excluding artillery losses.
A reader argues that size does not define greatness citing Samuel J. Tilden Gladstone Bis marck Disraeli Napoleon Wellington Jefferson Alexander Hamilton Franklin Peter Cooper Vanderbilt Jay Gould Grant McClellan Farragut Robert E Lee Charlemagne Hannibal Julius Caesar and others. The piece concludes that greatness stems from capacity and steady effort and that many notable figures were of medium or below average height.
A lecturer touring Missouri fears he will not find an audience. The hall owner reassures him a crowd will come since nothing has been seen in a long time. He pays five dollars for rent, but the crowd remains thin, prompting a dry exchange about the long drought of attendees.
The San Francisco Call describes a juvenile practice where Renovites collect ants from one colony and dump them into another to trigger battles. Ants fight fiercely until all combatants are dead, with fights occurring in pairs or small groups and ending only when a finish is reached.
A fragment from a Bible used in an Atlanta superior court notes lines about a debt and a sheriff. The passage mentions the sheriff and a term to point the way to hearth. A separate line states 244 days to the season and an aggregate oyster consumption of 1,446,000,000.
A Sofia dispatch says the Sobranje will send Starikof Guesthoff and Metropolitan Clement to the Czar to protest General Kaulbars as a Russian agent and seek a Bulgarian throne candidate. Reports warn war is likely this spring amid Russian, Austrian and German maneuvers and predictions.
Nicholas M. Bell reports US Foreign Mails activity for the last fiscal year. Sea letter weight reached 500 198 pounds. papers 2 567 553 pounds. letters sent 37 092 893. received 0 405 847. newspapers sent 47 049 002. received 26 700 050. Sea transport cost 357 4488 dollars. foreign revenue 23 354 from abroad. total earned by steamship companies 351 052. Global mass exchanges total about 11 40 000 000 daily, roughly five pieces per person. Global parcels around 401 000 000 000. declared value money orders 11 504 616.
Reports from the era mention ire, Wattney as a favorite singer buying a home in Watertown Massachusetts. England’s leading actress Mrs Keypat is noted for her homely pride. Emma Abbott to dedicate a San Antonio Opera House in December worth seventy five thousand dollars. The German tenor Heun Wackter suffers heart enlargement and dropsy. Violet Cameron and manager Lori Lonsdale face New York stage struggles. Max Minnie HAux declines to sing in Nespras ia City due to dilapidated opera house. English actor Wilson Barnett shines in Cl Ces id ion at Star Theatre New York. Government police crack down on moonshiners amid reform efforts.
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