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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1888
Page
4
The article describes Eskimo winter and summer dwellings near the great inland ocean. It covers summer sealskin tents, winter snow-hive houses, bed arrangements, lighting with smokes, and the tight low doorways that force guests to bow before entering. It notes sleeping bags per person, child rooming, and the harsh climate inside the snow huts.
A special report to the French minister of agriculture concludes sugar is an effective meat preservative, offering advantages over salt. Salt absorbs nutritive substances and flavor, leaving meat depleted. sugar forms a crust, uses less water loss, and preserves taste. Navigation crews may benefit from this method despite higher cost.
The article describes cinchona sources in Peru near Cuzco with leaves described as balingie gold reflections. Expeditons depart from Peruvian cities to locate cinchona. Rival expeditions chase the bark trade, luring workers with promising fortunes.
A St Louis Republican quote by Joe Howard contrasts New York as the wickedest yet best of the continent. It cites crowded streets as breeding vice but also notes immense religious, charitable, and cultural institutions. The city is described as a center of wealth, culture, good, and beauty.
A note on Amerigo and related Gothic and Lombard names. It traces early forms such as Americ to Amularic, cites a Visigoth king and a Bishop Emrich, and discusses possible stems and meanings. The most probable sense is "strong for labor" from amel linked to Norse ail and the notion of work.
A New York Car column recounts a tale of a Fifth Avenue dame begging a pug be saved from overfeeding. The expert reduces the dog's intake and increases exercise, resulting in the dog’s weight loss and a $25 payday. The piece concludes that large dog owners show better sense than pampered toy-dog owners.
S G W Benjamin's letter describes a Persian household using informers to control staff. He notes quarrelsomeness and jealousy help reduce difficulties. A tale cites a woman assigning leeches to fake injury, leading to a judge ordering examination and dismissal of the case.
A Cambridge man, not prone to drink, was repeatedly overtaken by liquor before mastering restraint. He could not recall events during intoxication or some preceding actions while sober, and friends recounted happenings an hour earlier that he could not remember. He described his memory as clear up to a point and then veiled.
A San Francisco Chronicle letter highlights Mexican etiquette for greetings when two women meet they exchange a light embrace and a palm pat on the back while men shake hands. It adds that the introducer states let me present and then each person gives name and address with Your obedient servant or At your orders. The writer argues the practice helps avoid misnaming strangers and sees merit in the custom.
The Russian anthem God Protect the Czar was premiered at the Grand Theatre in Moscow in December 1833, marking Russia’s first national hymn after czars had used God Save the King.
The Chicayzo Herald reports that in Paris over 27,000 families live in apartments with only a door as an opening while in London at least 60,000 families inhabit cellars. The piece highlights severe overcrowding and poor ventilation in major cities.
Jinks returns late after a night out and tells his stern employer he is not very sharp at his desk as quoted by the New York Evening Sun.
A Philadelphia Call editorial argues that what is often labeled as childlike cuteness is natural depravity. The piece urges parents to recognize unsettling traits early and accept harsher realities as children mature.
The latest figures show over 14,000 inmates in New York asylums with a very large proportion identified as foreigners.
A historical note from Warehousemen and Drapers Journal outlines the shopwalker role in large drapery houses. It details opening duties, keeping departments orderly, directing assistants to high priority customers, and tactics used to reassure or persuade customers to buy. It mentions handling difficult clients, tactful selling, and common dodges of shopwalkers with tabs to secure sales.
A Pioneer Press Listener recounts a Swedish practice in Minnesota where each person pays for their own drink rather than the group treating. The description notes thrifty customs and a collective toast followed by individual settlements, contrasting American social drinking norms.
A medical note warns that the neck area between collar and hat brim is exposed to wind and cold. It highlights the cerebro-spinal axis as a critical center affecting heart and lungs, urging extra effort to guard this sensitive region.
A New York Sun quotation discredits cold foot baths as a cure for cold feet while noting a doctor’s warning. A collector notes Roman coffins rarely exceed five feet five inches, Danish aristocracy grew taller over 200 years, and Egyptian mummies show modest heights around fifty-two to sixty-one inches, per Nature.
A humorous exchange features a tramp asking to be housed for the Beacon and a girl’s reply about sewing a shirt onto a button. The piece notes Bogota children bring their own pens and ink to school, highlighting resourceful charm.
A Youth's Companion report describes spontaneous fires from cotton fibers and dust in factories. A cotton preparation process left seeds soaked in oil causing ignition. a Massachusetts shop saw dust travel via a metal tube, then through a wooden pipe, igniting flames. An engineer’s cotton waste near a boiler caught fire. another incident involved a nail struck by moving beaters causing a serious blaze.
A New York Press reflection on newspaper workers known as night owls. They toil through the night and speak in shop talk, their conversations filled with inside information and future headlines. Their minds stay on news as the afternoon already fades into yesterday.
A vivid nostalgic fragment recalls riding a polished ice incline on an eighteen inch toboggan with a pretty companion and electric lights overhead. It likens the thrill to love, champagne, or a first merry go round, ending with a dizzy, euphoric plunge as the slide finishes.
An excerpt from C F Holder in American Magazine describes winter and semi tropical summer clashing in the Sierra Madre. Green mountains and valleys persist year round while snow caps the peaks in winter near orange groves. The scene contrasts two climates as if a truce holds between opposing forces.
A Boston Herald item recalls a lady with a fortune who rides in a hired carriage with her young daughter. Brief visits exceed the daughter's patience and a quarrel over time and cost follows, with the daughter calling out the mother for wasting a seventy-five cent ride on her twenty-five cent companion.
Palm leaf fans are coated with enamel to match evening costumes. The enamel hardens the fans, they last well, and can be recolored with a new hue using enamel. A ribbon bow completes the look, with or without floral decorations. Boston Transcript. Foreign schools in Turkey face new restrictions requiring a firman from the sultan and religious instruction for Ottoman students. The law aims to suppress foreign schools within six months, drawing protests from American authorities. Frank Leslie’s. Strange Town snippet shows a janitor's odd rooftop scene and a narrator’s comic misadventure in York.
An egg of the extinct great auk was sold in London for 300 dollars. The sale highlights the rarity of the species with only about sixty six known eggs remaining in existence.
A New York Sun summary notes that synthetic chemistry may replace natural sources for sugar, tea, quinine, indigo, and more, with progress in producing compounds from inorganic materials. It discusses origins of synthetic glucose, saccharose from electricity, and Remsen’s coal tar saccharine, while warning still uncertain commercial viability and noting dairy protection laws amid changing agriculture.
A Nature report cites an Icelandic Archaeological Society find at Bergthorsholl linking a burned house with the Njal saga. Excavation yielded ashes and burnt ekyr, a clabbered buttermilk, supporting saga notes that women flung skyr on the fire to stop it. This offers corroboration for the historic event.
Three young ladies on Woodward avenue recount how they are paid for various things with $100 bonuses for not piercing ears not getting engaged until 91 and other family stipends. Their brother reportedly earns $1 daily for not eating dessert and $2 daily for medicine while spending money is described as excessive.
A collection of brief notes reports the mirage of sound observed at sea and attributed to temperature layers, a Brussels to New York canal proposal with a three year start, a London coroner probing cough related bone breakage, and London houses adopting modern facades as rebuilding trends shift from traditional designs.
A humorous snippet notes Jones awkwardly sitting on a gentleman’s silk hat, crushing it and lamenting it might have been a new one. A quoted remark follows about experiments on the speed of electric current and a hypothetical signal circling the globe returning in half a second, attributed to the Chicago Herald.
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