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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1894
Page
1
Caroline Ticknor discusses how red legged partridges in the Canary Islands, introduced about 400 years ago by Spaniards, have adapted to island life. The back color shifts to gray, beak lengthens, and legs grow stouter to suit rocky mountain habitats, illustrating rapid natural change.
A vivid reminiscence places Sam Houston in bachelor quarters with Richard Henry Lee, a loyal Virginia-born servant. Houston confronts neglect, aims a pistol, but a nervous laugh from Lee reveals the joke, saving both from violence. The second item discusses volatile lead compounds aiding lead metallurgy per Royal Society notes.
The article notes enduring New Year beliefs in England Ireland Scotland and Wales. Morning rituals include leaving an apple and nose gay at a well or fountain to keep water fresh all year. The first visitor’s hair color supposedly signals fortune with a dark complexion bringing prosperity and a redhead bringing disaster. A gold coin near the door on New Year’s Eve promises wealth, prompting some towns to pay dark complexioned individuals to pass through the home first to ensure luck.
The piece contrasts British and New York social habits describing how men and women exchange salutations. It notes that in Britain men bow first in most settings while certain elites imitate English manners. It endorses continental practice of raising hats to ladies in public spaces as proper courtesy regardless of status, asserting a woman's entitlement to civility.
Camphorated OL remains a staple in home medicine closets. The article explains mixing two parts oil with one part spirits of turpentine for chest cold relief, applied hot under a flannel cover. It also offers a method to dissolve camphor by combining gum camphor with oil in a warm place overnight and refilling as needed.
An Australian paper tells of Ole Baumgartz a Scandinavian schoolmaster in Australia who receives a hostile phonetic letter. The missive contains insults and a threat involving his skull and bowie. A local conference of residents confronts the newcomer and questions the meaning of the letter reading aloud.
The Philadelphia Press reports a German mother believes losing a heel from her shod one may doom a child within the year while a French lady collapsing in love’s trust after such an accident foretells sorrow and disappointment.
In Fleet Street thieves attempted to steal a watch and chain from a gentleman. A gang member recognized the victim as a barrister who had defended them at the Old Bailey and announced the safe confrontation. The barrister retained his property after the exchange.
In Troy the fiercest opposition to the Wilson tariff comes from lawmakers and newspapers opposed to reducing duties on shirts collars and cuffs. A Reform club mass meeting supported by Thomas G. Shearman urged lower linen duties to boost wages and employment, arguing the McKinley plan harms workers and that reduced linen duties would lift prices and demand. A side note tells of a French baker using three pound loaves as weights in a court case over butter weight.
A New York Times note praises Eli Perkins for his tariff essays in the American Protective Tariff league publication The American Economist. The fiction features John Rigdon arguing a 20 percent tariff cut on knit goods would slash wages, with reference to German wages and factory impacts. The critique highlights Perkins’s famed math and skepticism toward 100 percent abductions.
The New York World quotes a strong partisan line saying Republicans will never forgive Tom Johnson for turning state's evidence on the tariff.
A recent demonstration showed that one bushel of sweet potatoes can be processed to produce a gallon of alcohol. The test highlights a potential method for converting sweet potato crops into fuel or beverage-grade ethanol.
An insurance agent warns a man who has angered him that the only safeguard is that the agent insured the man’s life last week, implying danger linked to the policy. The terse remark underscores peril tied to a life coverage arrangement.
The English monarch named Charles I promoted the woolen industry by mandating the use of flannel shrouds. This policy aimed to safeguard domestic production and regulate textile standards during his reign.
A New York Sun description details a device using two large hollow copper cylinders to heat and treat leather belting. Belts pass through a heated tank with a beeswax borax glue starch and molasses solution, then are pressed and dried by rollers, strengthening the fiber substantially. Marblehead's Pope Night custom is also noted with torch processions, bonfires, and mischief on November 5, tracing the town’s 1629 settlement by Jersey and Guernsey immigrants.
The Blue lakes trio lies about 12 miles northwest of Upper Lake in the coast range, with depths up to 500 feet in the upper lake. The three steel blue pools, never freezing, host abundant trout and sit amid mountains near St. Helena beyond Calistoga. The drive is long but the sylvan scene rewards visitors with quiet, scenic refuge.
Berlin correspondent reports the German emperor, missing little, shoots with one arm aided by a jager who carries a second gun and reloads it. The jager also plants a stick as a prop, supporting the emperor’s outstretched arm and gun.
A Philadelphia Press note describes substituting paper yarn for cheaper stock in carpets. The paper is used only in the body and underside, not the upper surface, and about 55 percent of a carpet may be paper without a customer suspecting it.
New York farmers received 11703 in government bounties for maple sugar last year, Vermont 36295, Louisiana cane sugar 8600000, California 125000 for beet sugar, and Kansas 20000 for sorghum, highlighting wide state supports.
The Hebrew people lacked coinage until the Maccabees issued shekels and half shekels bearing the inscription Jerusalem the Holy Simon Prince of Israel. The pieces carried no images.
The method to convert silver dollar value to gold value uses a factor of 0.774 times the market price of silver per ounce. This yields the gold value corresponding to the silver dollar.
A narrator describes peering from a window at red and yellow brick houses blanketed in snow under pale January sun. Opposite, a Dutch woman in a snug room with subtropical plants and mirrored window reveals a serene gaze and quiet self satisfaction.
An aged officer offers to wear two pairs of fetters to spare a wounded prisoner named Baird during a war with Tippoo Sahib. The native official insists every captive must wear chains, so the noble officer takes on two pairs himself. Baird survives to gain freedom and later helps capture a city, while the officer dies in prison.
A friend finds Cholly in a playful fret over neckties and gifts from multiple girls. He jokes that keeping track of who gave which tie is near impossible, fearing accusations of cigars if he errs, in a light New York Clipper tone.
A humorous exchange at a ticket window shows Mrs. Peck dismissing protests from about forty angry people with a quip about murder. The piece cites Ayer’s Catalogue of American Newspapers for 1894 noting 20 774 newspapers and periodicals, up 659 from the prior year, with 19 855 issued in the United States.
Those best qualified by experience agree unanimously that St. Petersburg hosts the most gay and brilliant society in Europe, reflecting the city’s vibrant cultural scene and fashionable circles.
A London paper mocks an advertisement in which a Clapham umbrella maker asks whether the passing wayfarer’s gin ham suffers any calamity. The questions probe nerves muscles and external wear, asking about attachment, motion, skin, digits, and overall condition of the umbrella. The piece frames the ad as an oddball originality.
Mr William Elkins a prominent farmer and fruitgrower near South Point once a flatboatman and famed singer. His Mississippi river songs drew crowds while streaming down the river with a thunderous voice especially on Dixie. A companion recalls hearing his voice echo 28 miles away in Louisiana. His singing no longer travels the river but memories remain.
In a reminiscence from Glances Back Through Seventy Years Vizetelly recalls meeting Charles Lamb near Chantry Inne. The attenuated figure moves slowly and oblivious to surroundings, wearing a black swallowtail suit with gaiters, giving him a Jewish look and an air of an old fashioned pedagogue.
A young man and woman quarrel over engagement and gifts. She demands the return of letters and photographs, insisting they are over. He claims she does not understand his reason, that he wants to marry Tam’s fiancée, ending with a note that the world seems beautiful again.
An account from the Detroit Times describes rats in an enclosed pit fighting fiercely. The animal fights its enemy and others of its kind, while a trained rat dog jumps to catch and crush rats, often breaking their spines before swiftly taking position to kill another.
Fraulein Hedwig offers Emmy a birthday gift of a hundred visiting cards provoking indignation. Emmy protests the extravagance and questions how long she must keep her own name amid the joke.
A visitor questions the painting’s origin, and the host identifies it as a genuine Durham bull with broad horns and distinctive color and curl on its forehead, noting the accurate breed traits as seen in the artwork.
Street regulations in London mandate sandwich men walk near the curb rather than on the sidewalk with at least 30 yards between operatives and placarded commides. Fines for each offense run to 22.50.
Some scholars argue that Mashona land natives descend from a commercial people who, about 3000 years ago, penetrated Mashonaland from southern Arabia, suggesting ancient long distance trade links influenced regional origins.
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