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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1888
Page
1
A sprawling column of 19th century wire service style items covers demography and war, cheese production, judging tracks, Washington family roots, Paris insect exhibitions, a Danish king’s jubilee, New Orleans mortality trends, new British military projectiles, and Gibraltar fortification critiques. It threads global politics, industry, and social issues with brisk, terse summaries.
A meditative poem fragment contemplates a wounded robin and a withered rose, mourning loss as life moves swiftly. It reflects on fragile beauty, a child lost, and the paradox of hope and mortality, attributed to M. C. Williams and Detroit Free Press.
In a rough frontier tale Ned Cummings seeks fortune at diamond fields near the Vaal river with an American revolver, a Hottentot guide, and a Lascar. he outmaneuvers rivals Matt Fralick and Kanadu as he marks a claim, forms a risky alliance, and discovers a huge diamond that reshapes his plans. The narrative follows their tense camp life, shifting loyalties, and Ned’s resolve to strike a lasting deal.
In a dramatic tale the chase ends as Ned confronts two assailants, Matt is killed, Ned wounded, and a lion savages the Lascar. The diamond sells for fifty thousand dollars. Ned now captains a ship from New York to San Francisco, doomed to never see the African coast again. A separate vignette follows a young NY World incident: a newsboy with papers drenched in water, seeking sympathy as bystanders discuss the boy’s woes and his audacious, guileless confidence game.
Four frightened elephants charged through crowded Munich streets during a major procession. Steam from a locomotive triggered panic, triggering umbrella stabs and knife wounds as people scrambled. The herd toppled doors, caused a chandelier to fall, wrecked a ground floor, and trapped residents on roofs before diversions and a wall breach led to their removal.
A Copenhagen correspondent visits Elsinore and the Hamlet grave at Marienborg Castle Park. The so called tomb is a simple cairn of stones, while Kronborg’s ramparts have been modernized since Shakespeare’s era. Visitors continue to pay homage to the dramatist.
The Washington Star notes a Chittagong fishing boat using bamboo rods and a planked platform to herd fish into a catching area. An Irish curragh and Belgian and German boats show varied crafts, as a sequence traces Gloucester style schooners from 1750 to modern iterations with deeper hulls and steadier lines.
A garbled science review lists dubious claims from arcane health potions to cosmic odds. It covers strange symptoms, Lapland skull sizes, petroleum wax substitutes, comet fates, and earthquakes sounds. Notable notes point to arsenic cancer risks, etheric air velocities, and acetic acid baths as medical curiosities.
Dr Julius Wiessner reports a microscopical study of old manuscripts showing linen rag fibers in eighth to ninth century paper, with cotton hemp and animal fibers present. Eastern papers predominate, none were raw cotton, all were clayed like modern papers, using wheat starch paste. animal substances rare before 14th century.
A Denver Republic story notes that many Utes excel at draw poker and high card games, using American or Mexican cards. They bet heavily on horse races and pony contests, with poker and racing drawing large crowds and much money, illustrating a rich culture of gaming and spectacle.
The article outlines glass production from raw materials to finished items. It details silicate formulas, colorants, and steps like melting pots, frit preparation, and shaping by blowpipes and casting. It contrasts flashed glass with pot metal coloring and describes plate glass production, annealing, and polishing.
Fragment from the Nebraska State Journal cites a hard character described as an expert at dying a whisker and facing danger. The dialogue implies a tense scene with threats and impending confrontation about supper and boots.
The life of Oliviera Dannot chronicles a rise from poverty to wealth through bold frontier exploits. He left Sorol for the United States, traded with distant Indigenous groups, learned of gold via Native informants, married into a tribe to learn their sources, and later acquired 10,000 acres in the Rocky Mountains from the government, yielding riches.
A letter to a medical editor from Mr Hanlon of Mississippi proposes a drastic, implausible cure for hydrophobia. He suggests the bitten owner kill the dog, eat the heart and liver as lamb, and have the dog’s heart and liver cooked for the patient, with a test of $1000 and medical approval. The piece reflects period sensationalism and speculative remedies.
The article notes fennel's valued uses in ancient Rome and Northern Europe, its presence in Anglo-Saxon medical receipts from the seventh century, and Charlemagne’s promotion of fennel on imperial farms. It cites fennel shoots, water, and seed in a 961 record and mentions Italian esteem for fennel in salads.
A customer with about three chairs left from his original atooc of capillary attractions took possession of a chair in a barber shop and asked for the part made in the mwniddie. The attendant studied the bald head and asked what to do with the third half.
Ladies department notes dinner gloves as a novelty credited to Mrs. Cleveland for keeping gloves at table. Fashion evolves a mitten like, palm free glove with embroidered stubs of finger, a freedom at meals and a new standard in decorum.
A dubious caution on hair dyes cites oxygen and acids as bleaching agents causing scalp harm while a scattered narrative links ancient Egyptian obelisks, royal lines, and imperial monuments to a modern urban curiosity. It then sketches court life and a Congo custom where neck rings weigh down married women, leaving skin abrasions as a sign of recent welding.
A fragmented piece contrasts a harsh critique of neck rings and burdens on women with fashion notes for autumn. It pairs grim remarks on the weight of rings with trends in brass money, corded silks, Directory gowns, pointed belts, and parasols. It describes new fabrics, embroideries, and dress styles for fall.
A Chinese Times report recounts opium use spreading through all social levels and recounts a tragic case where an infant dies after exposure to opium smoke. The parents, addicted for years, had shared puffs with the child. when a dose was missed the infant died, then revived briefly upon resuming inhalation.
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