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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1904
Page
3
In Arizona the burrowing and screech owls claim holes among cacti and river bottoms. Predation shapes the season for desert chipmunks and ground squirrels while other birds like Gila woodpeckers and gilded flickers guard their own burrowed haunts. Naturalists locate owl homes by owl pellets under tree cavities.
In a Paris park Alfred de Musset and a fellow Romantic poet misread a glowworm as a star. A lighted moment turns into a joke as the star fails to burn, showing the gulf between glamour and reality.
A fragment from a letter by Bismarck to his wife reveals a mix of melancholy and homesickness on a September day. He speaks of feeling well yet cast down, longing for the forest, lake and plain, and for his wife and children, mingled with Beethoven and sunset.
A noted revivalist toured a Virginia town years ago preaching to draw crowds. He met an old man on the street who admitted he never prays, explaining he carries a rabbit’s foot. The exchange highlights differing beliefs in a small community.
A cat and an infant sit on a hearth rug sharing a serious gaze. The scene prompts the infant’s deep query: Does a cat know she is a cat? The cat remains contemplative, neither seeking nor replying.
A witty English judge recalls marrying a middle aged couple and asks the groom if he has prior wedlock. The bride responds that she did once, but her husband died a week after their marriage, so it “ain’t worth mentioning.”
A historical note recalls Louis XIV’s minister Louvois and his vain wish for a lasting memorial. Despite royal efforts to erase him, a sculptor carved five stone emblems on the eastern wing of the Invalides. The symbols include a wolf crest and plumed devices, with later comment by the king, “Poor fellow! What is just like him.”
In several civilized cities one pays for the privilege of being run over rather than recover damages. Native arrests for crimes lead to imprisonment, but the real culprit’s confession delays release. Sir Montagen Gerard learns the jailed natives must pay a presented fee to the court for the trouble of arrest.
Mrs Makepeace presses her husband about temperance demonstrations and urges him to perform one by the pump handle to fetch a pail of water while he sits on the back porch with feet on the railing.
It is set against the 1707 union bribery tale as Lord Seafield, chancellor of the Scottish Parliament, took £500 to back the union. His brother mocked him by calling him a cattle dealer, to which the reply was that selling cattle is better than selling nations.
A Cambridge bedmaker praises a don's kindness and jokes that it is no burden to have her name added to the list of those he prays for, remarking with affable humor that he thinks of her nightly. The don appears pleased by the exchange.
In a peculiarly phrased chat, two men discuss gold hunting. One notes gold appears in giz zards of birds shot near the WKlon dike. The other suggests training birds to find gold rather than employing miners, arguing birds detect gold by pech while miners mine quartz.
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