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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1888
Page
4
A Chicago Times critique argues American women’s voices sound harsh due to climate and childish vocal training. It contrasts English methods, claims higher pitch is not the issue but quality, and notes American nerves and speaking habits worsen tone.
The piece mocks Washington decorum by noting visitors being invited to bathe in the Capitol basement marble pools. It contrasts polite invitation with the questionable symbolism of exposing political excesses, citing a New York Press satire.
Three Paris establishments manufacture ladies cigarettes and conduct substantial trade. Many cigarettes reportedly contain opium and perfumes are used freely in the production.
A keeper named Mar. Wedges walks among cages meeting lions and tigers as he explains challenges of acclimating new animals. He notes tigers are more dangerous than lions, and the black leopard is the most treacherous. Reports of a rhinoceros burned in a fire and a failed burn remedy, plus a hippopotamus smothered by smoke, are recounted from the New York Evening Sun.
A Boston Budget excerpt urges readers, especially mothers, to heed knee swelling in children. A subscriber recalls her 5-year-old son losing a knee cap after a delay in treatment at the Children's Hospital. She warns that minor knee or hip trouble can lead to long healing, amputation, or death if ignored.
Will J. Drew argues in The Writer that composing is not mere mechanics but a skilled craft. Editors and reporters should ease the compositor by clean manuscripts and consistent style, or risk careless grammar, spelling, capitalization, and punctuation causing delays and flaws in first class book offices.
A young actor, once judged as languid, learns from an seasoned actor that his problem is non direct movements. He is urged to act with definite purpose, a lesson valuable to a student broadening his mind at university.
The Argonaut reports three years ago Corean embassy guests were invited to a luncheon at Gen Hancock on Governors Island. Officers escorted them, feeding fear of murder. A later luncheon at Hancock's quarters featured a carved knife waved by the general, sending the Coreans fleeing to the door and then back to safety on the New York dock.
A brief note debunks the myth that dancers’ feet become deformed from hard work. It cites Theodore Child praising Taglioni’s white feet and rose nails as legendary. It then reports on fashionable men’s colors for spring with shades like Paille Ebenier Corail Coquelicot Cardinal and Pepite, noting about sixty shades from Paris.
Statistics show 820000 policies in the country with an aggregate $2100000000 in coverage. Over the past year more than $400000000 of new insurance was written and more than $370000000 distributed to policyholders as death endowment and dividend payments.
William Claoy Curtis reports from Chicago News on Rubia town in Thuringia famed for meerschaum and amber pipes. The craft, once centered in arms, thrives with 5,000 artisans. Annual output reaches about 700,000 genuine meerschaums plus millions in porcelain, clay, briar and other pipes.
Ward Ries notes in the New York Evening Sun how the word blizzard historically meant force or violence in central Pennsylvania culture. He recalls phrases like giving a blizzard on the nose or jaw, or to a harsh magistrate, and contrasts this with later western usage for sudden severe storms.
The late Dr. John L. Daze devised a memory system using fifty points on room walls and ceiling to store dates names and facts. After becoming blind he used it to recall vast material, aiding his writings which are still used as texts in the state. His daughter of Dr. Davy taught the method in several female colleges with success.
Mr Volk of Brighton introduces an electrically driven dogcart powered by a half horsepower motor and sixteen accumulators. The light design yields nine miles per hour on asphalt but only four on soft macadam, with two passengers restricting incline to one in thirty.
The New Orleans Times-Democrat notes Catholic populations by region total 9,682,000 under Queen Victoria. England 1,554,000 Scotland 326,000 Ireland 3,961,000. colonies 175,000. Asia 980,000. America 2,198,000. Australasia 668,000. Representation includes 32 peers in the imperial parliament and 5 English plus 75 Irish members. Privy council has nine Catholics. 40 Catholic peers, 51 baronets, 20 lords with courtesy titles.
The article reports timber cutting totals over the last five years in Wisconsin Michigan and Minnesota. It states Wisconsin and Michigan ranges from about 20,000,000,600 to 36,000,000,000 feet and Minnesota around 10,000,000,000 feet with an overall average cut noted at 4,500,000,000 feet.
A humorous exchange from the St. Paul Globe features a woman complaining that a bedroom is crowded with linens and needs to stash dirty linen under the bureau. Charley warns against tucking items away, joking about keeping the collar button visible.
In The Writer HE S. BL notes a simple fix to prevent pencils or holders from rolling. A roughly squared lump of sealing wax on the end stops rolling forever, surpassing using cardboard which slips or bends out of shape. The cardboard method offers a similar result but is less reliable.
The pressure in artesian water can stem from gas pressure rather than a large water head. For example Dakota has several wells about 1,000 feet deep with 250 to 280 pounds of pressure, yet no nearby high ground to create that head.
In southern France the postal system is aided by private road locomotives carrying small parcels between towns and along rail lines. Two machines operate between towns 70 miles apart, each making a nightly one way trip at eight miles per hour. The 23 ton train uses about half a ton of fuel for the 140 mile round trip, with engines delivering about twelve horsepower at 175 psi.
The New Orleans Times-Democrat reports theЭто durability of Roman structures. Underwater pillars near Maguntia Mainz withstood currents. Fourteen pillar stumps rested on stone beds. woodwork was eroded by only about an inch. Removing the pillars cost roughly $15,000.
Teak wood from India is increasingly admired though scarce and expensive. It travels from India to Japan and China for carving, then reaches New York dealers via French markets in limited supply. Open work patterns enhance doors and mantels. small pedestals cost £0 5 and carved chiffoniers about $1,000.
The New York Sun notes a shifting job market forcing delicately reared young women into bric-a-brac cleaning. It describes the work as refined, requiring a delicate touch, careful handling of treasures, and tasteful arranging to please owners in the great city.
Kosmos reports a single photography adaptation with steel viewed under the microscope. The piece notes steel as a particle agglomeration whose quality shifts by crs stats and mentions an observed heated sample for impurity testing. It also describes Heminway expedition finds in Arizona pueblos of large volcanic stones used as door defense in Los Muertos rooms, swung by a buck skin thong to strike attacking groups.
The Chicago Herald notes women employed by the French government get no hot lunch or breakfast, priced at ten to fifteen cents, served in a kitchen in government buildings. Letters cannot be delivered to them at the office. service quality by women is considered superior in detail and manual tasks, while salaries are very small.
Master Hofmann, a child pianist, wrote to young violinist Nettie Carpenter that he had changed his mind about marrying since meeting her. She replied graciously that she would wait, and he theatrically added that he would be the one waiting. Boston Advertiser notes the playful exchange.
A short note reflects on February 1866 having no full moon while January and March had two each. It claims the rarity spans back to Washington and predates the Christian era and creation, with astronomers predicting it will not recur for about 2.5 million years.
A Philadelphia Times correspondent describes a Genoa scene with a convoy of a dozen donkeys carrying iron rails tied along their backs. The weight equals two horses would bear in America, with each load around 2,000 pounds, a substantial ton for a donkey team in many regions.
The Alaska Free Press notes shorter days are ending as the sun rises at 8:40 am over Douglas Island peaks and sets at 3:30 pm. After a noon return at 1:10 pm the sky darkens, lamps are lit, and darkness returns.
A Foreign Letter notes Britain has reached a stage of civilization where native population growth slows as marriages fall. It cites 1853 with 17.9 marriages per 1000 inhabitants, 1885 with 14.4, and 1886 with 14.1 per 1000, indicating a continuing decline in nuptials.
John Westwood Oliver in Popular Science Monthly discusses Abercromby and Marriott’s study showing about a hundred folk sayings align with meteorological relations. The piece notes many sayings are true under ordinary conditions, while a large number are incorrect, yet moon influence remains the most invulnerable superstition.
South Pacific Ishin Products describes New Britain and New Ireland as exceedingly fertile with abundant provisions and deep loam soils. It notes a lack of fruit but rising missionary and trader plantings, potential for cotton coffee sugar cane and tea, yet cites labor scarcity as a major commerce drawback due to low native willingness to work without high wages.
The Berlin palace saw two deranged intruders the same day, a boatsman's wife claiming imperial kin and a white haired, aristocratic looking man who said he planned to marry the king of Italy’s daughter. Both were sent to the Charite asylum for mental evaluation.
The vernis Martin method spread in Paris as knickknacks painted in pale shaded woods gained favor. Early pieces were crude but improvements in colors and varnishes followed. Though artistic, the craft is not expected to become common. it demands care and patience, and simple brush skill suffices.
A New England note reports police and drivers replacing rubber footwear with oiled shoes worn over thick socks to stay warm and dry. The practice, adopted by many, aims to prevent foot injury and discomfort during long outdoor winter exposure, with wearers padding shoes with cork or felt insoles.
Petrified remains of a huge animal were found near Percy Iowa by R. Dawson. The body length exceeds forty feet without the head. The head lay separated and four feet six inches wide nine feet from the tail end. Dawson says the specimen differs from local stone formations and cites quartzite and other fossil traces. He believes the creature dates to the carboniferous age.
A medical curiosity in Austria involves a patient in Ischia hospital with a hornlike bony excrescence protruding from between the lower cervical vertebrae. The horn measures about eight inches, with the broken tip sent to Vienna for examination. The patient reports no pain and notes the root is soft and movable while turning hard a short distance away.
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