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Newspaper
Daily Liberal
Location
Le Mars, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1881
Page
1
A lyrical ode praising tropical fruits led by oranges bananas and pineapples. The verse celebrates sun kissed harvests, abundance, and the contrast between rich and poor, invoking paradise imagery and the bounty of Indian shores and Washington DC.
The article discusses methods to prevent saltpetreing in brickwork by adding linseed oil to lime mortar and warns that incrustation returns from interior wall exudation. It also covers powder degradation in cartridges from 1876 to 1880, a case of extraordinary mental calculation, self luminous photographs, and a Paris laboratory demonstration of internal body lighting for new inspection tools. It concludes with John Perry and Ayrton's energy experiments, predicting electric urban heating, lighting, ventilation, electric railways, and coal gas powered electric generation with efficient energy use.
A first hunting trip on Bontebok Flats recounts a Boer servant who drills with Maidstone, misfires at 500 yards, and demonstrates distance judging illustrated by ant hills. The narrator notes Boer prowess as marksmen, raised since boyhood with rifles year round.
The report notes African farmers and hunters benefit from open skies and dry air that reveal bullet impact across long ranges. It contrasts with Scotland where visibility is poor, making accurate shots difficult beyond 200 yards. A Cape farmer reportedly killed a bushbok from a dressing-room window at 400 yards.
Mr John Kee recalls a Sunday morning event when honey dew appeared as a mist and on leaves and porch, with five chicks stuck in leaves and two collected by his daughter. Neighbors observed honey like droplets on poplar leaves and porch, confirming the strange honey shower from a cloudless sky.
The piece argues that Earth's interior hosts extreme heat, citing mining data and a theoretical 50 mile depth reaching 4800 degrees Fahrenheit. It discusses how heat and pressure likely rise with depth, the possibility of a gaseous zone between core and crust, and the impracticality of accessing Earth's center. The writing notes density discrepancies and the limits of imagination in describing deep Earth conditions.
A fragment contemplates transforming anything into gas through experiments in a subterranean crucible. It muses on feeding it with intractable substances like asbestos or fire proof safes and asks whether they would share the same fate of instant evanescence.
Parents seek good society for children by choosing friends of honesty, modesty, and usefulness rather than wealth or fashion. The piece warns against chasing flashy circles and urges valuing intelligence, virtue, and steady effort over appearances, with a caution that both girls and boys deserve genuine character in their companions.
A blind 18 year old girl, Mary Agnes Dunn, claims to see the Virgin Mary and a vision is witnessed by several neighbors at her Market street home. Doctors view the case as hysteria and doubt genuine sight recovery, noting one eye is blind and the other without a pupil. The family reports repeated visions in a whitewashed room near an altar as crowds gather and the pastor remains cautious.
Herr Fuchs's annual survey in Der Naturforscher notes volcanic activity in 1880 was generally mild. Mauna Loa erupted on December 5 producing new craters and lava flows, Hopango in San Salvador lake persisted to February, and Fuego in Guatemala had a brief June eruption. Vesuvius showed intermittent lava, Etna activity without eruption, and two submarine eruptions near San Alexander and the Azores. Earthquakes were numerous, with a devastating Luzon quake around midyear. Agram and the Alps region experienced notable tremors, Smyrna and Chios suffered heavy damage in spring and summer, and December recorded the most quakes. Two mud-volcano eruptions occurred near Etna and Yenikale.
The text reflects on Earth's minuteness in the cosmic scale. It compares Neptune’s orbit to a planetary circumference of 5,486,000,000 miles and imagines the solar system as a tiny disk. Even huge losses of ice would barely affect space, like a match failing to warm Siberia.
The Clarksville Star agricultural editor reports practical tests with white willow fence posts. In green ground, four or five posts per stake provide stability and durability, based on repeated use and observation. The note offers guidance for replacing decayed posts with willow substitutes.
A Pall Mall Gazette correspondent notes a shift in German manners toward servants mirroring France. Civility toward waiters and house staff signals broader self respect and improvements, urging English travelers to avoid incivility and not rely on old pretensions.
A mosaic of quoted lines and adlike phrases appears, touching on antisemitic stereotypes, philosophical musings, bathhouse memories, a child’s illness, and a claim for Kidney-Wort. The lack of a coherent narrative yields a collage of period language and miscellaneous snippets.
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