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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1888
Page
4
A Chicago Journal article explores crime waves as epidemics influenced by natural forces. It links Sunday murders and wife killings to idle hours, saloons, and volatile social climates, proposing sun spots and celestial disturbances as possible drivers of mass criminal impulses.
William Elery Curtis contrasts Russia’s system with other nations. He argues every act is regulated by decrees from the czar, private enterprise requires state consent, and law serves the despot rather than people. Officials can “offend” and imprison without court intervention.
The Philadelphia widow of Matthew Baldwin lives in a home on Chestnut Street near the business district noted for a street level conservatory that resembles a shop window with no visible door. Baldwin, once a struggling youth who loved flowers, funded the house to share that cheer with other boys.
G P Gates writes in the Boston Transcript about Tangier’s hillside cemetery near the market and old citadel. The yard is sprawl with cacti and brambles, graves in rough walls and turbaned stone markers, women in white chuiks weeping among the headstones, and nearby sheref tombs gleaming white from frequent whitewashing.
The text explains wave action depths from seventy to 150 feet with shellfish found at such depths washing ashore in storms. It notes shingle moved at fifty feet and that harbor works show little material movement below eighteen to twenty feet, with breakwater foundations undisturbed beneath those levels.
European specialists observe that acute rheumatism is more prevalent in dry weather than during rain. The finding suggests climate may influence rheumatic flare ups, though researchers caution that further studies are needed to confirm the link and explain mechanisms.
The mineral soapstone or stentite is rising in prominence for its pigment like properties to shield steel vessels from corrosion. Used in porcelain making, polishing marble and glass, and for idols in China, it is called figure stone. Its refractory nature suits gas burners and crucibles, and now as a paint for insides of iron and steel ships and stone monuments to resist atmospheric decay.
Ward H. Lamon in Philadelphia Times recounts Lincoln as bravest and gentlest, often shielding the weak and undefended. He notes Lincoln’s chivalry toward a native man at Black Hawk War and his compassion for a suffering pig, illustrating his lifelong kindness and commitment to peace.
The Diversions of a late minister to Turkey record an oriental fable where a hodja sells a house and wins a nail of his own. At midnight he keeps intruding, tying and untying a string on the nail, until the buyer sells the house for a song and the hodja buys it.
A Cockaigne excerpt argues Americans attract Englishmen when truly American. It warns anglomaniacs to embrace American customs, dress, and language, insisting attempts to become English are in vain and that true identity lies in Americanism.
A Home Journal note describes the Seris Indians from Tiburon Islands tallying about 800, among the continent’s tallest races at roughly 6 feet 4 inches. Reportedly cannibalistic yet using poisoned arrows and preferring raw decomposed meat, they live entirely on raw food. They differ in stature appearance language and manners from other Indians. A Turk visitor claimed they spoke his tongue and their resemblance to the Maxlayans is noted, though few civilized people have visited their island and survived.
The piece explains ice melting absorbs heat cooling water and notes a Boston Budget caption on a peculiar weakness. It also includes Alfred Trumbull’s remark in New York News about people fearing telephones and speaking tubes as voice conductors.
Carter Harrison notes Calcutta’s central water comes from the Hooghly, is stored in reservoirs, and is fairly pure though many foreigners boil it. Water is carried in goat skins to upper floors, and street sprinkling is common across the esplanade and business districts, by coolies and carts, with women carriers filling the water.
A New Orleans Picayune style meditation argues that hope can empower and strengthen, while anxiety often proves unfounded. It praises cultivating a bright outlook, noting confidence boosts victory in effort and suggesting contentment may beat hopeful striving in this world.
Changes in men’s clothing over the past century largely stem from government action. The shift from stockings and breeches to trousers followed medical advice on leg health for marching soldiers, and cropped hair for cleanliness in campaigns. Civil fashion absorbed these military habits, with some harm from lingering conventions like the stiff collar and coat features tied to horseman-era needs.
The Epoch describes M de Lesseps as tireless and energetic in Egypt for ten years. He wakes at 5, rides from 6 to dusk with little nourishment, writes at night, and maintains ablutions even in cold. A story recalls him bathing in a frozen pond. He loves outdoor sports and impresses Arabs with his horsemanship and daring.
A historical excerpt discusses Moorish aversion to portraiture and image making. It notes acceptable acts when done without consent and cites a belief that God will judge those who create lifelike images at the resurrection. The piece references F. A. Bridgman’s Warper’s Magazine discussion.
The New York Herald critic argues the world overflows with real poetry in landscape and Indian life. He says attempts to render this poetry into verse must be well done or better left undone, highlighting a cautious view of literary adaptation.
A description from Globe-Democrat explains a vaquero rodeo maneuver where the rider grips a bull’s tail to topple it, then vaults to safety. The passage notes the rider’s skill and the risk as the bull spins and crashes, followed by a quick exit to its pony.
Fall River Mass proudly notes Perry Davis the late inventor of a popular pain killer was once a carpenter. He quit his bench to sell medicine from a basket and later moved to Providence Rhode Island becoming head of what grew to be the world’s largest patent medicine house. He died leaving a large estate to heirs.
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