08 Mar 1902
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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1902
Page
1
Stafford declares the beloved perfect and angelic but Jim warns that love consorts with reality. The friend admits marrying changes everything and urges honesty. Stafford later proclaims happiness, yet Jim recalls the woman’s refusal and the pedestal she kept. The tale ends with Stafford’s realization that the beloved is human after all.
A New York Times anecdote recalls General John A. Logan in a dining room where a child notices his visible ears after a hair cut. Logan jokes that he has ears that hear, and reassures the amused mother that they are not asses ears, lightheartedly defusing a moment of embarrassment.
The Independent recounts how tramp legends spread by word of mouth before telegraphs or newspapers. It notes selective begging patterns around homes of A L, P B, and Sheriff A M, suggesting social signals driven by oral communication. Judge S reportedly warned a tramp to deter visits, after which the plague-like intrusion ceased within forty eight hours.
A Bible in the Congressional Library, transcribed by a monk in the sixteenth century, is described as flawless and unmatched. Its German lettering, illuminated initials, and perfect two column pages are kept under glass. A legend tells of a penitent monk copying the text to learn the divine commands he had violated.
The Greeks and Romans valued youth physical culture and public water systems while Athens provided sewers early. In the Middle Ages sanitation declined with compact towns, narrow streets, polluted wells, and churches housing the dead, fueling disease like the Black Death that killed a quarter of Europe and required repopulation.
In Great Britain about 12 000 barmaids, mostly English, work 16 to 18 hours daily with only one hour for meals. Health suffers from alcohol exposure, fatigue, and dyspepsia. Ten thousand young women in London alone are employed as barmaids and bartenders. A recent inquiry found many come from army navy officer, clergyman, and merchant families, not shopkeepers.
The fiercest attackers besides sharks are small six to eight inch South American fish in the Orinoco river. In schools they attack people and can eat them alive. While fishing, these pygmies bite the caught fish, and falling from the boat risks mutilation.
A Scotsman James Chalmers of Dundee conceived adhesive stamps by 1839, faced ridicule and medical worry about licking, and only in 1841 did post office authorities take his idea seriously for the new postage system.
The test advises cutting a potato, tasting a piece, and rubbing halves. A good potato should be mealy and hold together with froth at edges, without water leakage. Meat should be white or yellowish, and some yellow varieties boil well despite common belief.
A lake skipper navigates fog and shoals with skill, risking speed and risk on five hundred foot ore carrier. The article praises his eye for water, calm decision making, and ability to push through hazards despite dangerous conditions as the navigation season tightens.
A German physician treated an aristocratic lady whose illness stemmed from excess living and little exercise. The plan: rise at 5, walk an hour, tea, another hour, chocolate, breakfast at 8. She improved until she revealed she had chocolate first. He ordered a quick return home and an emetic with tea placed last, and she improved again.
A guide from Ladies' Home Journal outlines etiquette for introductions. It prescribes presenting a man to a lady with the phrase Miss A may I present Mr. B. When two women or two men meet the elder is addressed if there is a difference. A girl presents friends to her mother and the mother introduces her daughter. A woman should rise when another woman is presented unless she is much younger. a man being presented, she sits and bows. Men shake hands when introduced to men. women do so to show special friendliness.
Careful laundering is essential for linen in factory era. Linen fibers crack when frozen, so dry indoors during cold weather. Old fashioned linen could be hung outdoors in winter to bleach in frost and dew, but bleachers weaken fibers and modern linens won’t wear like the old ones.
A Chambers' Journal note describes new initiates swearing to secrecy with the thumb and two fingers on the cross hilt of a sword. The oath binds them to concealment from family and all earthly powers, deemed irrevocable even against the pope.
In a Georgia postwar trial a black defendant faces murder charges. General Robert Toombs unexpectedly defends him, recounting a Gettysburg battlefield rescue by a slave who carried his master to safety. The jury frees Jim, asserting the enslaved man possessed a soul too white to kill except in defense.
At the station Tom tells his father he has changed his mind and will not go back to the school. The father notes the school’s reputation and recalls his own success there, with a wry remark about being turned out by the institution. The exchange captures a domestic moment with a hint of pride and tradition.
Report from the Hong Kong Daily Press describes a Tartar general in Canton tormented by an evil influence blamed on a peaked library roof. A fung shui professor advised repairs, the roof was removed and replaced with a flat design to end the curse.
The article cites Dr Isaac Barrow describing wit as diverse and elusive. It outlines methods such as parable, apt play on clichés, wordplay, odd similitudes, sly questions and clever ironies. Barrow emphasizes wit arising from oddities, sharp responses, or surprising metaphors.
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