29 Mar 1890
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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1890
Page
1
A sonnetlike lament set at sea expresses fear for a brother named Jack. The speaker prays for safety as a ship battles a night of rolling clouds and high waves. The tone is urgent and somber, emphasizing kinship and peril at sea.
A 16 year old English youth recalls the brig Indian Prince sailing from Gogho to Aden when a collision sank the ship. Stranded in the Gulf of Aden he and a mate endure famine and a brutal Arab captivity, escape through a valley in Somaliland, endure enslavement and forced labor, then flee with the trader’s help after a risky three month ordeal. They return to India after paying roughly 1600 dollars in ransom.
A New York Ledger fragment recalls a prairie telegraph operator who used a sail on a tied car to visit his girlfriend each Saturday night. He notes the wind shifted directions, and he managed with another girl five miles east. The tale blends humor with frontier life.
The Philadelphia Inquirer notes curious surname to occupation links in notable figures. Forepaugh, Forepunch, Physick, Hartshorne, Lex show name roots diverging from mere lineage to professional fame. The piece highlights how prominent individuals share names aligned with their professions or roles.
Professor Voeel demonstrates from star spectra that Algol has a dark satellite about 100 times Earth's size moving at 56 miles per second, causing its periodic dimming. The finding echoes Goodricke's century old explanation of Algol's variations by an opaque body in orbit.
The New York Telegram notes over five years more than 1 060 American ships used oil to shield against storms and claim it prevented total loss. The Boston Transcript reports 1889 fire losses in the United States reached nearly 125 million dollars, with fifty three fires over 100 000 dollars each driving the total.
Poem fragment laments two fears that haunt the speaker life and death. The speaker portrays Life as a first terror bringing aging and sorrow, followed by Death as a second terror approaching unseen. The verses reveal alternating grief and dread, with the soul trapped between known and unknown fates.
A New York Mail piece explains the slang of Wall Street, tracing terms formed after panics like 1837, 1869, and 1873 and the Civil War era. It defines phrases such as break, cover shorts, lambs, goslings, gun a stock, kite slaving, collateral, bad delivery, caught long and short, off market, saddle the market, and watering stocks, showing how language mirrored market behavior and credit risk.
A historical note claims Chinese and other civilizations strongly dislike limb amputation. It notes savage and semi barbaric groups share the fear of severing body parts, and mentions Chinese preference to keep and bury preserved limbs, with rare cases of owners consuming amputated parts.
Elbridge Thomas Gerry, known as Commodore and protector of New York children, leads a prominent social and civic life. He heads the New York Yacht Club and ran the 1889 Centennial ball, while serving as guardian of child health and morals and former counsel for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Born in New York and a Columbia College graduate, Gerry also maintains a high tax bill and wide influence in civic affairs.
The Globe-Democrat announces a new eight story building at the corner of Sixth and Pine. It will feature Missouri granite and brown sandstone on the first floor with stock brick above and brown stone trimmings. The counting room will be ground floor and twelve offices on floors two through six. Marble stairs and hydraulic passenger elevators planned. Stereotyping department on the seventh floor. Cost estimated at $300,000 with completion in eighteen months.
A passenger from Wisconsin aboard an ocean steamer amasses trivia about life at sea and state affairs. Her daughter echoes a chorus of confirmation as the old woman dives into topics from the sick passenger to the captain. The boastful talk even touches on a Wisconsin appointee to China, praised for his sermons.
Professor Edward S Morse’s extensive Japanese pottery collection, shipped from Salem to the Museum of Wine Arts in Boston, features over 4 000 specimens. It covers much of Japan’s ceramic art, with fifty two provinces represented, and shows provincial development chronologically.
A compact survey of apples as medicine notes high phosphorus content linked to brain and nerve health, acids aiding sedentary livers, and the role of malic acid in balancing excess meat. It cites digestion times, traditional remedies for eye ailments, and historic uses from Lincolnshire to Paris, concluding with a quip from a London hospital.
A night eating guide recommends light, easily digested foods like cold meat and milk with peaches, gradually increasing portions to a healthful routine. The piece also recounts curious bird behaviors, such as gulls and ravens dropping shells on rocks to crack them, and other animals using height to smash shells. It notes a Glasgow professor warning that only about one in a hundred medical students become full doctors, and ends with tidbits on marriage ideals and an unspecified unknown land in Alaska and Washington.
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