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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1903
Page
4
Denton Journal reports brief notes on Howard Melvin Bennett and H Johnson for Saturday morning events dated August 15 1903. The item references local residents and community happenings without detailed context.
A Scientific American note discusses how glass dissolves slightly in water and acids, leaving silica deposits and alkaline traces in bottles. It questions whether long-term glass contact could affect health, noting silica in foods and the potential link to inflammation, while deeming the appendicitis theory implausible.
A medical explanation states that hallucinations from stimulant abuse are partly due to visible ocular veins swelling. These congested, serpentine veins, normally hidden, can appear as a large object at a distance, provoking the belief the image is alive and grotesque. Eyeball veins become prominent through disease, not imagination alone.
London Tit-Bits notes that exhibits in law cases vary greatly from mere papers to large items like boilers. At times an omnibus a motor car and a cab have stood in the private roadway near the courts because they could not be shown in the witness box, forcing judges and juries to inspect them outside. One case featured a ship's boiler furnace brought from Swansea for a trial heard before notice Walton.
In this country it is not respect able for a man's wife and daughters to work, but the harder the old man works the more he is admired. They tell cheerful stories about the old man. His little children say, "Papa is too busy to die. But that is about all he gets out of life in the way of distinction.
A vignette from the San Francisco Wasp features a quoted line from Shakespeare and a reply about fortune tied to a late affair. The exchange humorously contrasts reputation and wealth with a wry remark about a tide and marriage.
The excerpt recalls young Franz Schubert as a clever piano pieces composer in the Imperial chapel and notes Samuel Wesley as adept at cobra tricks at age three, composing Ruth by age eight, with Vieuxtempo likewise admired across musical Europe for his early gifts.
A Readers note cites examples from classic and contemporary works where authors appear to err in chronology, geography, or character behavior. It lists instances from Scott, Besant, Trollope, Don Quixote, James Lane Allen, Hamlin Garland, Jacob Riis, and a Paris reporter, illustrating humorous or improbable missteps in literature and journalism.
A narrator describes a Tuesday market on a bare hillside in Morocco. Hundreds of mules and Arabs fill a crowded scene as stalls form in mud cubicles with goods on mud shelves. Slippers repair, blacksmithing, and a meat whirlpool draw the largest crowds around hanging carcasses and joints.
A reader extols pumice stone as the easy solution for ink stains on fingers noting it can remove marks quickly with firm rubbing. Cautions about potential slight skin irritation or cuticle loss are advised but the toilet table gains a valued accessory.
A Japanese boy receives a ceremonial first name at one month, is deemed grown at fifteen and gets a new name, then assumes a public duty name. If the officer’s name matches, he must change again, and further changes occur on marriage and death, the final name being carved on the tomb.
A Parisian paper recounts a boastful contest among three artists. One claims a pine board painted to resemble marble sank in water like a stone. The second says a thermometer hung on a frame of a Arctic Scene dropped to 20 degrees below zero. The third brags his portrait of the Marquis of Camargue is so lifelike it must be shaved three times a week.
Palmistry linked willpower to thumb length and joint. the length of the upper joint measured will, while the thumbs of Roman holiday makers mattered little to the defeated gladiator whose life rested on being bent forward or backward. The phrase a man at another's mercy is under his thumb echoes this belief.
A compact survey of sneezing folklore across cultures. It notes French phrases asking for protection from Tycho Brahe and English rhymes about wishes and penalties while mentioning Italian Felicita and Indian May you live. It contrasts Roman, German, Persian, and Amazulu beliefs on sneezing, omens, and spirits.
The Trinidad botanical department proposes using pitcher plants as floral watchdogs against roaches that prey on orchids. The pitcher entices insects with nectar then traps and kills them, a deadly Upas for the unwary. Cockroaches are drawn by scent and fall prey to the plant’s sucking petals, seldom escaping.
The piece notes eccentric stage practices in Japan where a supposed corpse is revived by a man in black with a clock before it. Plays start at 10 am and run twenty four hours without scene shifts. Audiences come prepared for the day and bring children who use the stage as a playground between acts.
The oldest wrought iron pieces known include a sickle blade found by Belzoni under the sphinx at Karnak near Thebes, a blade in the great pyramid mortar found by Vyse, and part of a Nimrod crosscut saw unearthed by Layard, all in the British Museum. A Damascus steel bar shown to Alexander by King Porus remains in Constantinople.
Clayton Wright as agent for Harry Clark offers cash sums up to ten dollars with no removal of property until terms are met and a 12 month credit on bankable notes with approved security and interest added.
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