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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1904
Page
4
Practical tips from a Boston Herald piece on wild flower photography. It argues two key aims showing habitat and flower character, prefers separate pictures, describes locating the best portrait point, removing distracting surroundings, transplanting flowers when needed, and using isochromatic plates or color screens for blue or white flowers to avoid washed tones.
Little Bessie, recovering from a run of fever, frets over a scant meal. She pleads for more toast and shadow tea, while her mother hesitates, citing lingering fever and a quick pulse as reasons to hold back. Bessie argues that her excitement to eat drives her pulse up.
A Detroit Free Press note reports a woman at a spiritualist seance being told by the medium that her late husband wishes to commune. He supposedly feels bad because she has remarried, prompting the wife to ask how he learned of the marriage.
A Scotsman Donald, who served an Englishman as guide on a fishing trip, is described by the London Mail as having a national tendency to claim kin with influential Scottish families. When the Englishman chuckles at his boast, Donald replies that the pig he is driving is “an acquaintance life yerSel.”
Amherst College professor John M. Tyler argues heart education must accompany intellectual training. He cites Bunyan’s Great Heart as an example, insisting emotional development aids Christian schooling alongside head knowledge.
In a Century article Andrew D. White notes that as a boy Otto von Bismarck faced his father's clerical hopes. Later Bismarck joked with his wife that priests might make him a better man, and she replied politely that her answer would not be.
In a Washington Star excerpt, Mrs. Torkins begs Charley to avoid the race track after overhearing talk of long shots and rifle practice nearby, expressing concern that she would have prevented his presence if she had known.
A German woman traveling with George I. during a royal procession was hissed and booed as she rode to St James Palace. She spoke in broken English asking why she was abused, claiming they came for all the people’s goods, to which a man in the crowd replied that they came for their chattels too.
John Burroughs argues that nature provides an unconscious school through play among animals and humans. He describes playful behaviors across species as practice for future life, noting hunting, chasing, and mastering imitation as innate education in a world where pleasure drives action.
Mr. Hunter loses the field while fox hunting and, unable to find his companion Jong, asks a small boy named Johnny for guidance. The boy, after being bribed with a penny, points the way by barking. The scene captures a humorous exchange in a rural hunt as described in London Answers.
The late Justice Maule sharply warned a court official who crossed between bench and dock during a prisoner’s lecture before sentencing. He declared it improper for a gentleman to pass between two others while one speaks to the other. He then sentenced the prisoner to seven years penal servitude.
The piece argues that some colds become dangerous and progress to the lungs, urging to treat early with mild laxatives like Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets and, if needed, local remedies. It promotes Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as a soothing alterative, notes it boosts pure red blood, and offers Dr. Pierce’s Medical Adviser free with stamped requests.
Mr M Snechost accuses the editor of a misprint in a hotel piece. The author reveals printers altered the line about feeding the corps of attendants, changing it to see instead of problem. The editor dismisses the error as trivial.
The exchange features Mr Nuriteh-There and a bank teller where Nuriteh laments writing his name to look good on a check. The teller confirms the text is legible, while Nuriteh insists the effort was wasted, claiming the attempt achieved little.
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