05 Apr 1890
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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1890
Page
1
F L Stanton in Rome Tribune reflects on parting with a melancholy mood. The speaker bids farewell to friends and work, noting sadness in nature and memories of the past. He urges loved ones to remember him as he said good by in quiet, reflective tones.
A St Louis Post Dispatch inspired piece stresses that reputation and credit are earned by strict contract keeping and fulfilled promises. It warns against overoptimism and delaying payments, advising honesty, timely debt extensions when needed, and transparent creditor communication to maintain trust and avoid lasting distrust.
In April 1864 a New York regiment, fatigued by army life, visited Cincinnati after crossing the river. They paid for a hotel stay with feather beds, but found them too soft. Bedmates fled to the floor, choosing bunks and breakfast on the ferry back to Covington, later laughing at the memory.
A shabby gentile youth visits a Detroit dealer asking for a full dress suit for one night at 3.00 dollars. The dealer offers options including trousers separate for 1.00, complete with shoes shirt and tie for double price, plus a shirt sparkler for 0.50. Thirty-one outfits prepared for the same occasion as one order arrives.
The article traces how signs evolved from word roots and printing needs. It notes addition from plus’s initial, subtraction from aninus contracted to mons, multiplication from plus, division by compacting digits with dots, radical from radix, and equality first used in 1557 to avoid repeating equal to in print. The piece credits the New York Commercial Advertiser.
A Chicago Knights Templar officer, Judge Bradwell, attends a lord mayor’s dinner in London where a herald wears a 200 year old cocked hat. The judge asks to view it. the herald responds in jest with the lord mayor’s formal greeting as he presents the hat for inspection.
An English officer climbs a slanted tree over a pond and shoots a tiger from its end. The tiger wounds him but cannot deter its prey, which crawls up the trunk. The hunter escapes by diving, is pulled into shore by the tiger, and rescued as the beast retreats to the jungle. In Indiana, engineer Charles Flaherty receives a record pension of 13,070 dollars from the Vandalia road system.
A travel flavored note surveys global eating customs from Turkey’s finger food and right hand usage to Japan’s sweets, Siam’s ant eggs, and France’s snails. It contrasts Western tastes with unusual dishes in China and New Caledonia, urging readers to view insects as merely fashion.
London Letter to Chicago News recalls Oscar Wilde as England's most engaging talker with a sharp wit on reading in bed. He claims to read to sleep, awaken to read again, and even read three volume novels in half an hour for a concise plot summary as a schoolboy prodigy.
The fiber, derived from Chinese Grass nettle species, has long been used for light clothing nets and lines. Introduced to England about ninety years ago, it attracted manufacturing institute praise and prompted massive investment, though attempts remain costly and largely unsuccessful despite producing fine cloths.
Danvers and Markham debate a proposal about a woman with many Kansas farms. Markham jokes she is old and experienced, while Danvers hints at deception. The exchange includes a quip about fourteen year locusts and a narrator’s name Larper’s Bazaar in a satirical tone.
Washington Stour notes the Pompeii catastrophe classically captured in casts from ash molds. The piece highlights victims’ writhing forms and the paused daily activities as danger approached, illustrating the lasting impressions of the eruption.
The New Orleans Picayune notes a growing belief that smoke from soft coal has sanitary benefits. It is claimed sulfur in the coal becomes highly disinfectant when burned, creosote and related products are released in bituminous coal fumes, and carbonic acid in the air may reduce disease germs compared with purer air.
A brief old guide notes English readers enjoy pulled bread with cheese. It describes pulling warm loaf interior into pieces small to hand size and baking until delicate brown. When cooled the morsels are crisp and tasty with cheese.
A maritime poem recounts a flood tide as evening falls and a small boat brings tidings of a wreck seen at sea. The town reels in sorrow while locals grieve, unsure of the fate and the impact on their fading hope. The poem examines how a single message can plunge a town into deep woe.
An 1851 inquiry and later scholarship trace red coats to early campaigns. From 1367 in Spain to Agincourt and Wars of the Roses, red appears as badges and apparel, with later examples in Warwick’s contingent, Canterbury garrisons, and Henry VII’s Yeomen of the Guard, forming the nucleus of a standing army.
The Milledgeville Chronicle reports Nester Cora Mitchell, once described as a queen of an African tribe who came to the U S voluntarily, was buried in cemetery wearing her royal robes and jewels after living as a slave to ex Governor Mitchell. She had appeared each Christmas in full regalia before African Americans, then returned to humbler roles, including kitchen work, until her death.
A Boston Globe quote features a umbrella dealer who argues women never fail to return borrowed umbrellas. He claims long in the business and ascribes polite returns or thanks notes after a shower, asserting women do not abuse borrowed items.
A San Francisco Bohemian club relic shows a telegrahic message framed under glass. The Autocrat replies from bed in Boston by wire whispering a joke about a late greeting and silent, unanswering, solitary friendship.
A West Chester physician advised a sick young man to stay home claiming he would go out at 7:30. At 7:15 the doctor returned with white powder in water, gave a drink and guaranteed sleep, and the man fell asleep and woke only at bedtime.
The Pall Mall Gazette notes ears vary in form and size and can hint at character. Women typically have better shaped ears, smaller and closer to the head. A few individuals possess notable muscular control to move the upper ear, though rare.
In a Missouri camp near New Madrid ten men recount nights of panther screams and owl omens. A cook named Mat sustains a deep foot wound from an ax during a panther fright. The tale ends with a warning against scaring enslaved darkies with owls.
In a costly Wall Street dining room a stout man devours canvas back duck and terrapin, spending twenty five to thirty dollars daily on meals and wines. A mutual acquaintance notes his single minded routine, earning him a cool million while he rarely travels or enjoys culture, content with collecting rents and reading newspapers.
The New Orleans Picayune notes the patent office building mirrors ancient Greek architecture, linking modern American invention to distant classical origins yet suggesting a tension between progress and reverence for the past. It argues the nation’s inventive genius drives forward while echoing styles conceived 3,000 years ago.
The Detroit News reports a Dutch technique where a horse is placed in a stout frame and three hooves restrained while the foot is shod from all sides, producing a vise like hold. The method uses American nails with locally crafted shoes and costs three guilders or about $1.20 for a full set.
The note claims Marshall Jewell of Connecticut used a bribed servant to learn the secret of Russian leather production. He then returned to the United States and built wealth by making Russia leather domestically. Exchange source suggests this tale as a historical anecdote about his fortune.
London Truth describes the Victoria and Albert, the queen's yacht, noting cork floor cloth, white decor with gilded and silver fittings, and a green morocco dining room with white and gold ceiling. Queen's cabins and Princess Beatrice's quarters are detailed, as is the after breakfast room with officers’ portraits and an electricity lighting system.
A Paris journal describes a cabinet making method using camphor wash and iron gall and sulphate of iron coatings to color and preserve wood. After drying, rough surfaces are smoothed with couch grass brush and light charcoal, then natural stick charcoal and powder ironed in with linseed oil and turpentine to produce a smooth durable polish.
The Epoch notes heredity in wealth among top financiers. Astors and Vanderbilts are praised for upholding dynasties. Jay Gould’s sons may expand fortunes. Robert Bonner’s heritage is kept by his sons. Oliver Ames, twice Massachusetts governor, rises from the Ames shovel fortune. James L. Flood leads banks in Chicago and Nevada.
A famous college president addressed students in the chapel to announce the largest freshman class in its history. He read the third Psalm in a booming voice and the day ended with the hymn Return, ye ransomed sinners, home.
The Portuguese women accept and curl mustaches as young men do. On delicate faces the small feminine mustache can be agreeable, yet on older faces the heavy masculine growth becomes offensive to foreign eyes. The practice is said to appeal to Peninsular eyes according to the New York Telegram.
The will of the late M. Chanteloup of Montreal distributes his entire $500,000 fortune among 500 workers. The foundry will continue operations under the foreman's direction, illustrating that private wealth can serve the public purse and socialism as a practical idea.
Extraordinary precautions were taken in Buda Pesth for the Austrian empress arrival. The platform was restricted to the emperor only, officials were ordered away, and the passage used by the empress and attendants was kept clear. People were forbidden to approach within a hundred yards of the station.
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