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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1925
Page
6
Irvin S Cobb recounts a dinner tale about a Oklahoma prospector who spills moonshine and a rat that drinks thrice, changing from timid to bold. The English guest later retells it at a London dinner, mispronouncing the whisky and expanding the moral to a parable of American humor.
A plainspoken American tourist in Canterbury listens to the cathedral chimes as a kindly clergyman tries to explain their sacred message. The exchange turns comic when the visitor, overwhelmed by the bells, admits he cannot hear the pastor over the loud tones.
Cornelius Vanderbilt rose from a modest rowboat ferry service across the East River in New York to become one of America's foremost railroad magnates. The early venture marked the humble beginnings of a vast transportation empire.
A naturalist recounts a fox cornered by an eagle. The fox feigned playfulness, gamboling and prancing as the eagle pecked at the tail, then circled and retreated to the heather. The fox used the ruse to avoid capture and survive the attack.
A St. Louis Globe-Democrat column argues sleep beats beauty routines and late parties. It claims early bedtimes and rising benefit prominent people who set fashion, suggesting celebrations occur in morning light, while the mischievous gods revel in darkness.
The Sixtus Chapel in the Vatican, Rome, built in 1478, features Michelangelo frescoes on the ceiling depicting Old Testament scenes and the walls showing Moses and Christ. The Last Judgment above the altar, famed for its height and width, was painted by Michelangelo in his sixtieth year and took eight years to complete. time has faded much of its original color.
The Gold and Silver Wyre Drawers' company held a large banquet in London. The craft traces to India with early mentions around 1491 BC. References from Holy Writ, Homer, and Herodotus support its antiquity. Historical artifacts include wire drawings from the Scandinavian period and William Rufus wrapped in cloth of gold.
Pathfinder Magazine discusses the old English idiom Mad as a Hatter. It notes the phrase once signified furious insanity and explores theories on its origin including hatter adder nat ter and potential corruption to hotter. It cautions there is no concrete evidence.
The temperature’s lowest point occurs just before sunrise as night heat loss via radiation exceeds incoming solar heat until the sun’s warmth reverses the trend. This natural cycle explains why dawn often brings the minimum temperature and a shift toward warming once daytime heating begins.
Prof. Jean B. Beck reproduced a small flute from a noble's tomb in Egypt dating back 3,000 years. The instrument produces notes whose octaves sound equally loud, with air entering through side slits in the reeds rather than at the ends, unlike modern instruments.
A bill recalled by concurrent action of both houses requires Presidental approval and return. If either house improperly requests its return the President should refuse. The formal form states that both chambers concur and request the President to return the bill to the House of Representatives. Once passed, the concurrent resolution is sent to the White House.
British Guiana’s interior is described as a vast dangerous maze where only a few white explorers have ventured. Locals, using a tree mark language and secret signs, guide parties and track routes, turns, and group size, while natives navigate with precise instinct through the jungle.
The North China News notes pork is the chief meat across Chinese classes and regions. White pork is common, though the wealthy avoid it during festive meals. New Year and weddings feature a whole hog or portions. Beef is sacred to many, lamb and vegetables fill meals, with radish leaves, shepherd's purse, bamboo sprouts, and sea weeds also eaten.
A tale from 1630 recounts Mr. Allen of Holme Lacey Hereford shire whose watch, left in a chamber, was suspect of housing a devil after a maid heard ticking. A servant tossed the case out a window into a moat, the string catching on a sprig confirming belief in an evil spirit.
Dr Wendell P Woodring of the United States geological survey notes that the rising hills in Haiti likely trigger earthquakes in the northern region. Coral reef caps form terraces climbing from sea level to about 1500 feet, preserved by arid climate and underground drainage, with Miocene origins.
In 1808 the community now Barre Vermont debated its name from Wilkesburgh. Holden and Barre were the final candidates, Barre offered by Jonathan Sherman. A fist fight settled the choice, Sherman winning, and Barre was adopted by city leaders and the legislature.
A famous man visits a doctor with a cough and criticizes the medicine. He says he felt better after a quarter bottle, while three quarters are wasted. The doctor apologizes and asks for the reason, prompting the blunt verdict on the remedy.
Historical notes describe the Egyptian pyramid building effort with 100,000 workers over ten years to build a 3000 foot causeway for stone transport. It claims 20 more years to complete Cheops’ pyramid, containing 2,800,000 stone blocks averaging 40 cubic feet each sourced from Mokattan hills and the Torah across the Nile.
President Masaryk of Czechoslovakia is described as a tireless reader. His study is stocked with roughly five hundred books newspapers and periodicals from Prague Czechoslovakia neighboring countries including Russia and English and American dailies. He remains well informed about world events and exercises two hours daily.
A Kansas tavern landlord denounces Ira Sours as the meanest man across seventeen states. He claims Sours disrupts home talent shows by laughing during tragic performances, even as a relative mourns a slain father and grieving mother, stirring local anger.
The piece notes many places share common or peculiar names. It cites England with ten Coles and fourteen Burtons, plus dozens of Prestons and Burtons with suffixes, Jericho on maps, and paralleled names in America and Europe. It mentions single letter towns like A and O in Holland and Norway, plus various geographic usages. It reads like a trivia compilation on toponymic variety and ambiguity.
A shepherd on Mount Ida in Asia Minor found the iron oxide stone Magnes stone with fragments on the ground. The mineral, later called Magnesia, gave its name to magnet and formed the crude compass when a Chinese observer noted a hanging piece pointed north and south, becoming the father of the modern compass.
Califletet the noted French scientist conducted liquefaction experiments using a manometer inside the Eiffel Tower. A soft steel tube ran up the tower with readings every three meters via projecting stopcocks. The apparatus enabled readings along the tube and reached about 400 atmospheres of pressure.
The article defines turning state’s evidence as testimony by a crime implicate, given to aid the state. It notes a promise of non prosecution often implied, usually lacking if prosecutors lack sufficient evidence. The definition is attributed to Puthflnder Magazine.
A report explains the telephone and telegraph wire hum results from wind induced vibration. Wire tension and pole spacing influence sound level, with strongest noise observed at areas near poles where wires vibrate.
The Washington Star quotes H G Wells in The American Magazine as saying true success is the ratio between what we might have been and what we might have done and the thing we have done and made of ourselves, rather than wealth notoriety or power.
A quotation from Arthur Sharp in the Edinburgh Scotsman extols hobbies as meaningful outlets for spare moments. It contrasts idle persons with those who fill time with purposeful activity.
The phrase feet of clay signals humanity in exalted figures who seem godlike yet are mortal. The expression stems from Biblical usage, seen in Daniel 2 and 3, reminding observers that even revered heroes remain fallible.
The geological survey asserts diamonds form when molten iron with dissolved carbon is rapidly cooled, a process credited to Moissan. They add diamonds can also be produced by simultaneous high temperature and pressure. Large stones remain rare and often imperfect.
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