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Newspaper
Darlington Herald
Location
Darlington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1919
Page
5
A curious comparison describes the penguin both as a polar bird incapable of flight and as a training aircraft used to teach control of airplanes or seaplanes. The mock penguin features tiny wings and strong undercarriage, allowing learners to practice on ground or water before piloting real planes, reducing fear and building confidence.
Weird cures from around the world claim to treat diseases. Lee Penny lore cites a Holy Land coin used in crises, while other folk methods include three dips and a swirl in water for squid healing, passing under a donkey for whooping cough relief, touching warts with a wedding ring, and a ritual cross spell to vanish a wart.
Theodosia Burr Alston, married to Joseph Alston and governor of South Carolina, endured sorrow after her father Aaron Burr faced treason trials. In January she sailed from Georgetown on a schooner likely wrecked by a gale or pirates, never to be heard from again.
A Youth's Companion note describes the rabbit or hyrax found in Africa and Syria as a curious animal with cup-shaped hooves that form a vacuum to grip smooth surfaces, enabling tree climbing. It also mentions the tarsier of the Malay islands and the Philippines, whose toe ends have suckers allowing climbing of bamboo stems.
A collie named Shep, belonging to a family on the upper Scioto river in Ohio, traveled 800 miles from Ohio to Kansas and back. After the family moved to Smoky Tull river headwaters in Kansas, they left Shep with a neighbor. eight weeks later the dog returned to the Scioto home, rail-thin but alive, journeying by train and wagon. The story is cited from Youth’s Companion as a notable dog tale worth hearing.
The Seven Wise Men of Greece were Solon Chilo Pittacus Bias Periander Epimenides Mephulus and Thates noted for practical sagacity. They left Delphian temple mottoes such as Know Thyself by Solon Consider the end by Chilo Know thy opportunity by Pittacus Needless to say, ambition brings risk by Bias Nothing is impossible to industry by Periander Avoid excess by Cleobulus and Suretyship is the precursor of ruin by Thales.
A guidance piece explains that age is not the sole divider between lamb and mutton. Well-fed animals up to 18 months may still be lamb, while poorly fed yearlings yield inferior mutton. It notes best mutton has fat, heavy meat, and that lamb is rarely economical. meat color should be deep red, fat creamy white, and mutton should be kept cool to avoid odor absorption.
The article lists several royal wives not crowned queens consort. It notes Margaret of France as Edward I’s second wife, Henry VII’s wives Anne Boleyn’s successors, Henrietta Maria resisting Anglican rites, Sophia Dorothea not recognized, and Caroline of Brunswick barred from Westminster Hall at George IV’s coronation due to ceremony restrictions.
A towering cottonwood near the center of the continent served as a landmark for thousands of 49ers heading west to the Eldorado of the Pacific. It stood between New York and San Francisco and guided wagon trains from 1849 until its rotted demise after the Union Pacific railway’s completion. In 1910 a monument marking the site honors the original Lone Tree that stood on the old California trail.
A desert feature in western Australia yields water only at night. A long trench contains a thin gneiss plate that expands with heat, forcing air and water into the trench as it cools and contracts. This creates nocturnal hissing sounds before water appears, revealing a natural water-storage phenomenon beneath the rock.
A National Geographic bulletin notes Java hosts more volcanoes than any area of its size and harbors a population larger than New York Pennsylvania Illinois Ohio and Texas combined. It details 100 to 150 active and extinct craters, widespread volcanic activity, and historic eruptions such as the 1853 Kra Kap a event whose blast reached Australia, altering the island's landscape and causing tens of thousands of deaths from eruptions and tsunamis.
A 1904 study by Dr. Frank M. Chapman marked the first photographs of flamingo nesting behavior. The American flamingo inhabits warm regions from the Bahamas and Florida to Brazil and the Galapagos, builds mud nests, lays a single egg in May, and relies on both parents to feed hatchlings with pre digested food. Young flamingos hatch with down and mature into brilliant plumage in their second year.
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