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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1894
Page
1
Obvious emphasis on latest fashions at Acme Hall with bold prices for men and boys. Highlights include knee pants suits at 2.98, a broad selection of hats and caps, and men’s furnishings with discounts claimed as 25 percent below competitors. Sung phrases promote esthetic appeal and tests of taste.
Vivid old narrative about a fearless manservant Cato in a southern city prewar. A ventriloquist-backed test ends with Cato severing a cadaver head, earning the doctor’s dinner. Also reports on polygamy in China causing a shortage of marriageable girls and a New Hampshire circuit court visit by lawyers with a travel tale.
A writer pleases himself with a white page and a golden pen as cigar smoke curls upward. He contemplates composing a poem, yet the moment passes. Figures appear in ink, the mind restless, the muse elusive.
In a London Tit-Bits anecdote Mrs Keeley, famed actress, recites a tale about a tradesman who welcomed a new son. The visiting child notes the infant has no hair and no teeth, then quips that the tradesman has been sold to raise an old union.
An Ohio man kept a large green frog as a natural barometer. A globe of fresh water held the frog, with an inverted glass fruit jar acting as its parlor. The frog reportedly jumps from water into the jar three to eight hours before rain, then stays until rain arrives.
A garbled quotation leads with a wife mockingly challenging her husband on judgment in marriage. A Paris banquet hosted by French vegetarians yields no clear verdict on the cider service. Separate note lists sea salt content by several seas: Mediterranean 85, Atlantic 157, Baltic 15, Black Sea 26, Caspian 11.
Cholly Knickerbocker notes in the New York Recorder that English clubs refuse new service until previous day’s charges are paid. The rule applies to all, from the Duke of Westminster to a government clerk, preventing gambling debts and extravagance and preserving the club treasury.
A Dublin host famed for his cook and wines hosted a dinner with several agreeable city men. Chief Justice Doherty praised the party, but the host retorted that true pleasure lies in restraint, recalling nine guests in another dinner who drank many bottles while the conversation dwindled.
Sunday mornings bring a hallowed quiet that pervades the atmosphere with nature’s array. The day’s distinctive calm impresses even amid civilization, renewing physical and spiritual beings through rest. Beyond religious services, the periodical rest reflects infinite wisdom in refreshing tired nature.
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania expands its finance and economics program founded with a £100,000 endowment from Joseph Wharton. It grows from two to four years, adds practical civic and banking training, journalism, and potential future courses in banking and insurance. The project honors Professor Edmund J. James and others, aiming to educate students broadly in government, economics, and professional careers while maintaining senior-year study options from other departments.
North Carolina appoints ex governor Thomas Jordan Jarvis to fill the U S Senate vacancy after the death of Senator Vance. He will serve until the legislature elects a successor, with the June meeting key. Jarvis has a long state career, missing few political roles, and a Civil War service record ending with a shattered arm.
In Chicago the Monadnock Building elevators carry about 275 to 300 round trips daily, moving roughly 4,000 people per day across 16 lifts. With about 61,000 visitors estimated, the structure stands as a busy vertical artery of city life. Also noted is a marvel from the British Museum: a jasper stone bearing a near perfect miniature portrait of Chaucer.
A Pittsburg Dispatch piece explains how doctors prevent disease by strict hygiene. The physician avoids touching bedclothes, washes hands with bichloride after leaving contagious rooms, and never sits with patients, making infection unlikely despite routine examinations. Also noted are Japanese uchina fans, including iron war fans and water bamboo varieties, used for signaling, cooling, and cooling fans.
In Meachian's Monthly a note compares American Quercus alba to English oaks with side branches becoming trunks. A white oak in the Salem New Jersey Quaker graveyard spreads over 50 paces, with branches rivaling the trunk. A tradition says soldiers partially mutilated it during the Revolutionary War and the current tree grew from a sprout then.
In a Sheridan scene described by the San Francisco Argonaut, staff officers debated essential soldier traits. Some praised bravery and moral courage while one urged absolute obedience. A Sheridan retort crowned the ideal as the man who knows when to disobey orders.
Official agricultural returns show that over 14000 acres are under cultivation or idle in and near London. Within Bow Bells range 7000 cattle 5000 sheep and nearly as many hogs are kept on farms, highlighting rural activity near the metropolis.
The quote reflects on birth, marriage, and death as pivotal moments in a man's life while highlighting public curiosity about his gender, the bride's attire, and the contents of his will.
The Association of Military Surgeons of the United States plans its May 13 convention in Washington with a notable roster of army navy and marine hospital service surgeons. Dr Nicholas Senn, founder and president, will be present along with politicians like President Cleveland. Senn, Swiss born 1844, helped found military surgery efforts and devised a method to test intestinal penetration in gunshot wounds. He studied in Chicago Fond du Lac and Europe and served as chief surgeon at Milwaukee hospital and Wisconsin national guard surgeon general.
John H Flagler, a New York multimillionaire and former National Tube president, announces engagement to Alice Mandelick a 24 year old contralto from the Choir of the Ascension. Flagler, widowed and about 50, is linked to Standard Oil kinship and yacht circles while Mandelick has drawn major suitors with her singing career.
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