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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1894
Page
1
Professor Lombrosy argues kissing was once an internal act not exclusive to lovers. He cites Homer and ancient Indian literature to support his view, noting that modern Hindu poetry lists 12 kinds of kisses.
Tingry Furniss relays a story of a buyer paying for grouse before the legal date. An old lady buys stock from a secondhand dealer who trades everything from mansions to mousetraps. A buyer pays a guinea each, saying it’s for her husband’s birthday. The birds came from an auction where the case was broken and birds stuffed.
An aged parish tale recounts Will Pooley being hanged unjustly after a Bodmin trial marked by bribery and false swearing. Friends moved the body, sowing grass over his grave, but nothing would grow, while a remarkable exchange about peaches in a store underscores everyday life.
A weary remark from Mr Tennweek as he exits the proprietor's office questions whether gold injections could cure all liquor habit forms, and why a similar use of whisky could be a cure for heartless miserliness and penury. The quote is attributed to the Boston Herald.
In Toccoa a store clerk, reputed as a sleeper from the “seven sleepers” legend, woke to a splintered plank and brick near his bed after a night of thunder and a lightning strike. He later found the chimney top badly damaged, the event said to have caused the debris falling into his room while he slept. The tale adds jest about his “clear conscience” amid the miracle.
A Scotsman attends a meeting of an improvement society where a Shakespearean scholar extols his author. A debate erupts over Burns versus Shakespeare, ending with a witty exchange about who wrote an epithet about a crown. Also recounted is Small Robert who prays for a bicycle and receives a tricycle instead, prompting a child’s lament to God.
Jonathan Hutchinson notes in the Sheffield Medical Journal that healthy people predominantly sneeze and warns against the belief that sneezing signals health or luck. He references Taylor’s Primitive Culture on related customs and animism, suggesting his own view may add value to the discussion.
Franklin school engineer F H Wheelock introduces an electric fire engine aimed to replace steam engines. Key benefits include greater lightness with a 100 horsepower unit at 4,500 pounds versus 18 horsepower steam units at 9,000 to 9,900 pounds. No boiler or extra crew needed, reducing operating costs. an electric plant of two 300 horsepower dynamos would be required, one in reserve.
In the passage from the New York Press the author contrasts gender norms in flower arranging. In the United States flowers are linked to women, seen as feminine skill, while in Japan cultured men, priests, and philosophers, even retirees, are described as ardent patrons of the art. Ladies’ learning is noted as superficial rather than a true study.
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