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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1884
Page
1
A portrait of Helmuth von Moltke the Elder detailing his disciplined Berlin schedule from seven AM study to evening family tea. The piece contrasts his idealized 19th century officer persona with a critical view of his limited imagination and steadfast patriotism.
New York City receives twenty five inexpensive taxicabs while a thousand are needed. Fares are set at 25 cents for 8 miles and 25 cents for each 15 minutes of wait time. Previously the shortest distance fare was $1. Installing twenty five cabs costs $25,000.
A merchant traveler at a Peoria hotel paid a dollar under his tumbler and instructed waiter Jim to fetch a first class dinner. After a lavish meal, the traveler pocketed the dollar, provoking Jim to exclaim in disbelief that someone had turned a hog loose in the head.
The Inter Ocean describes natural ice caves and wells in Hungary and Europe, noting Dobschan cave with layered ice, pillars, and cascades, plus Teneriffe and Carpathian examples. It cites summer freezing near Stelitze and salt mines where caves fill with water then freeze. Nearby Iowa also reports an ice cave at Decorah.
The passage notes a shift in school dress norms, praising gym use and modest attire. It describes a New York school banning velvet or cast-off finery, and a Massachusetts plan for sensible uniforms: single layers, loose fit, soft unexciting colors, and designs that allow free movement with articulated polonaise and layered undergarments for warmth and practicality.
A description from the Twenty or Thirty common clay pipe party scene shows youths and guests using color coded ribbons to pair off for bubble blowing. Prizes include plush cases, frames, blotters and writing paper with a top prize for the longest lasting bubble, followed by dancing and supper.
Mr Burt describes Britons who settled near Iliopolis and Kingston Canada as thriving farm owners. He notes two English brothers now farmmasters with 80 and 100 acres, building homes, barns, orchards, and self-sufficient operations. He praises their quiet dignity and contented, unhurried life as a contrast to other American regions.
The article explains Reynolds theory of raindrop growth by coalescence as drops descend at varying speeds, collide, and merge. It notes condensation and evaporation effects, cloud formation without rain, and rain as a major geological force shaping soils and rivers. It spotlights rainfall variation by geography, citing extreme annual falls in equatorial zones and very dry deserts, with record local rain events in Monmouthshire and Gibraltar.
Henry Villard postpones his planned journey to Europe to aid his health and is seen downtown in New York. His wife keeps a $250,000 Hudson River estate from the family fortune wreck, and the couple occupy their grand New York residence whose interior is likened to an Italian palace. The downfall may be partial with stock orders from the Transcontinental Company threatening director suits for deceptions, per a Springfield Republican correspondent.
A bailiff’s sale lists items from Blakeley including one tin pan two tin plates a broken tray a broken spider a locking glass two porcelain tones and two cups from a young dog counter item.
A writer notes Longfellow has no tombstone or memorial yet his grave is marked by a grassy terrace on a hillside. Visitors from far and wide gather, collecting grass blades and even dust near the carriage road to honor the poet.
The passage recounts anecdotes about Victor Emmanuel and a tale of his death prophecy in Rome. It also describes malaria causes and control measures from New Britain Connecticut, noting how moisture and filth influence disease and how grass cover and drainage reduced fevers in several examples, with urban sanitation improving health.
A British Quarterly Review essay argues that medicine is seen as mere physic by the public, hindering scientific treatment. It urges education to accept medicine grounded in physiological principles and life conditions, not only drug mixtures and boluses.
A plan expends not less than ten million dollars on explorations into Central Africa extending across the equator to the Juba River. The Abysinian campaign forms part of this grand enterprise to open trade in cotton, sugar, grain, ebony, gold, and other commodities, amid criticism of imperial motives and calls to abandon the venture.
Abram Bateman of San Francisco reports two eight week old tiger kittens stolen from a tigress in an abandoned El Rocario mine shaft in Sonora. The thirty pound cubs are tame, rarely ferocious, kept in a cage then parlor and yard for amusement, purring as they nap.
In Dakota, married women retain their own real and personal property and may contract, sue, and be sued as if single. Neither husband nor wife has any interest in the other's property.
Col P W Norris and Professor Middleton depart for Little Rock and Texas after gathering prehistoric relics in Arkansas. At Pecan Point they unearthed five barrels of pottery and two more from Tyronza river, including a unique two thirds life size earthenware head. The array includes vases, skulls, mortars, enameled pieces and animal-headed sculptures.
Captain James Fraser oversees magazine covering and sand filling of Fort Sumter as the interior shows marked improvement over recent years. The Charleston News notes that the fort will soon erase most traces of the terrible bombardment it endured.
A medley of light jests and quotes from desks and streets. The items touch on spelling gaffes, pets in silver collars, proverbs, courting ages, barefoot guests on carpeted floors, cremation jokes, kindergarten questions, flirtations, and misread observations from the Boston Post Detroit Free Press and Yonkers Statesman.
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