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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1892
Page
4
A poetic fragment describes day passing through a valley. Imagery includes wheels and sunbeams, a spinner at rest, brown bees, and birds rallying. The text is garbled with misspellings and lacks clear narrative structure or identifiable persons or places.
A morbid financier Cyril Jacques seeks death by natural stonework at Mammoth Hot Springs as Miss Mignonette Favre funnels romance into a bizarre trophy collection. Jacques uses the sintered infill as a death instrument while Favre hoards and ships stone‑turned objects from Yellowstone, turning a park spoliation into a dramatic obsession.
A girl named Mignonette becomes obsessed with a marble cone containing a presumed lover. She fashions herself for reunion, prepares with ritual dress, and begins to split the cone to awaken the silent occupant. She faints as the tomb opens to reveal only a dead tree trunk, ending the wild fantasy.
A twin headed gopher snake, twelve inches long, was kept alive in alcohol and studied by naturalists at the Academy of Sciences. Each head could feed independently via separate channels to the stomach, creating a race to eat insects. Despite the oddity, the specimen behaved much like other gopher snakes.
During the September term of the district court a juror named John Doe, who is hard of hearing, initially asks to be excused. The judge tests his hearing, refuses to excuse him, and Doe suddenly collapses, smiling, as the decision is made to require his service.
A Rio Janeiro dispatch to The Times reports Brazil facing turmoil with ministerial resignations, suspected dictatorship by Peixotto, and a spreading revolt across Santa Catharina, Matto-Grosso, and Rio Grande do Sul. Protests, armed mobilization, and regional uprisings threaten the republic's stability amid renewed calls for action. In sport and breed news, stallion prices are reviewed, noting St. Blaise's $100,000 sale to America and comparisons with historic Thoroughbred values.
Beekeeping notes that air requirements rise with active, honey rich swarms and drop during winter dormancy. Special underground ventilation is deemed largely unnecessary for temperature control, as occasional door or window opening suffices. W. Z. Mnitchinson of Michigan argues against subearth pipes.
A Canada farmer via Ottawa reports on how a small group of Plymouth Rock hens produce eggs when well cared for. Data spans June to December with totals: 2008 hens? or 2,008? and feed cost listed as 17.00. Four hens produced thirty-nine chicks. A pullet began laying at six months eight days.
A New York correspondent recalls meeting an old miser in the Astor Library who ate crusts of bread from his pocket and lingered over his book. The narrator befriended him at a beer shop, later paying his dinners, while learning the man was a retired real estate speculator worth at least half a million in property.
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