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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1894
Page
1
California claims the nation’s highest per capita wealth with a population around 1.5 million and property values more than doubling since 1880. Last year gold mines produced about 18 million dollars while San Francisco emerges as the world’s leading whaling port.
Dr Murray, editing an English dictionary, faced financial ruin as his daughter threatened to elope with the coachman unless given a diamond bracelet worth at least 750 dollars. He refused, revealing he owed eight months’ wages to the coachman, ending the ruse with tears and irony.
An Assistant county prosecutor cites nightly notes by candlelight as a key practice. He keeps a pad and pencil beside the bed to capture insights after sleepless moments, believing early jotting preserves pivotal ideas for murder cases and complex trials.
In rare cases an irregular egg shell contains two ova or develops two birds from a single egg. Excess feeding can cause two ova to form, leading to twin chickens or monsters with extra limbs. Such specimens have been sent to the College of Surgeons museum for study.
The Philadelphia Press notes that in former times many foundlings were given absurd names tied to days of the week churches streets or other local references. Dickens in Oliver Twist illustrated a similar practice as authorities assigned odd cognomens to orphans born in workhouses.
A New York Sun note cites a 915 A D Welsh law listing kitten value rising as it gains use, from one penny before opening eyes to four pence once catching mice. It also records Montana bans on killing bison buffalo quail Chinese pheasant for 10 years and moose elk otter beaver for six years after March 1, 1893.
War ren Antill of Henry county Kentucky seeks to relocate his home using a wheeled house and a traction engine to pull it, a low fuss move noted in local records.
The article surveys early sugar sources and terms in medieval records and rolls. It cites Fos on Joinville for a West Indian sugar link and notes earlier mentions such as 1243 zucre de Roche and 1253 zucar rosat. Beet sugar appears post-1747, with sugar entries in Close Rolls and Wardrobe Accounts reflecting import origins and prices.
In a noted Glasgow sanitary dispute a question arose whether ice cream should be treated as milk under English law. The case showed fever linked to ice cream and exposed poor manufacture and storage in crowded foreign dwellings. The sheriff ruled for regulation, but the higher court reversed on appeal, clarifying ice cream sellers are not purveyors of milk under the statute.
The engagement of Howard Gould, son of Jay Gould, to actress Miss Odette Tyler unsettles New York social and theater circles. The couple plan a June wedding after Miss Tyler ends her current contract. Tyler, born in Nashville to General W W Kirtland, rose to fame in The Counsellor's Wife. Gould sits as a Gould company director living at Tarrytown. In addition, the piece cites Jay Gould's will distributing about 266 million among six children, with conditions on marriage. It also notes Dr Knapp's electro magnet eye surgery evolving to remove iron from the eye with careful technique to minimize inflammation.
Bowdoin College unveils a costly new science building donated by Mark Hopkins descendant F Searles in memory of his late wife. The three story Elizabethan structure fronts a campus beside the Walker Art building, with exterior light red brick and Amherst sandstone trim. Architect Henry Vaughan of Boston designed the handsome edifice, interior brick walls, few plastered rooms, and mill floors, with occupancy planned for the coming summer and furnishings pushing the total outlay beyond 250000 dollars.
The Searles Science Building at Bowdoin features three departments chemistry physics and biology each with separate entrances and no interconnections. Ground floor labs include general and smaller labs plus a professor’s room and dark room while second floor houses a large lecture hall and additional labs. The biology section spans the entire third floor with a gymnasium greenhouse and a geology hall. basement contains specialized rooms and janitor quarters.
Berlin Letter recalls a rare lighter moment as Prince Bismarck, traditionally stern, opts to play the barrel organ for a palace children’s party while the emperor discovers a room full of youngsters dancing and the ex-chancellor at the organ.
A New York Leder excerpt argues waking at six each day yields about 20,200 extra hours over forty years. It claims this amounts to eight extra hours daily for ten years, effectively adding a decade of life for mental cultivation and business progress.
The dialogue presents Wilde debating a club invitation and superstition. He likens superstition to color and imagination, arguing common sense opposes romance and urging the group to preserve reality and avoid dull, offensively rational norms.
In a Boston Transcript excerpt Mamma Nellie cautions Nellie about associating with Mr Gay noting his character is questionable. Nellie defends Mr Gay saying she has given him every opportunity yet sees no change over six weeks.
A fragment from the Cleveland Plain Dealer notes Mrs Jones Jones and Mr Jones in a heated exchange over parliamentary procedure. The dialogue shows objections, the previous questions motion, and the speaker calling for order as John slams his paper in protest.
The Paper World notes a crystallized iron tungsten compound formed as one iron to two tungsten atoms. These crystals are silver gray, very brilliant, and capable of scratching topaz. The finding suggests tungsten alloying could markedly increase steel hardness by transferring hardening effects into the mass.
A citizen in a shiny Prince Albert coat asks what Scripture teaches about baptism and the arguments behind the various theories. The answers-to-queries man raises his voice in protest, swearing for the first time in a long and useful life.
French statistician De Moreal argues humans have steadily grown shorter. He cites 1610 average height at 1.73 meters about 5 feet 9 inches, dropping to 5 feet 5 inches by 1820 and 5 feet 8 inches today, then projects future averages shrinking to under 15 inches by 4000 A.D.
Miss Boston I understand Chica go makes progress in literary matters. Miss Porquepacque remarks that a clerks wage of ten a week is paid to write poetry about a new brand of sugar cured hams in the market, as noted by the Detroit Free Press.
In Paris most newspapers employ a man of straw called redacteur who is paid to keep him in absinthe and sausage. He spends time at a cafe near the office. When police raid, they fetch the redacteur who is hauled to prison and judgment. The paper continues.
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