Job's Tears seeds used for food and ornament in India
The seed known as Job's tears appears in several forms described by Dr Watt of Calcutta. The cylindrical white grain is ornamental, the pear shaped seed varies in pale to brown, and the spheroidal type is often yellow or pink. The two main forms are a nearly round white or black seed used for beads and rosaries, and a half inch long tubular grain widely used decoratively in Karen dress embroidery.
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Balzac Traps Publisher In Clever Pay Demand
A famed French novelist Balzac flattered a publisher by claiming talent comparable to Soulié and Sue and even Dumas. He argued his books were worth double their pay, and the publisher was unable to object, leaving Balzac with the higher wages.
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Frederic Soulie
Balzaev
Eugene Sue
Sue
Dumas
Frederic Souife
International signals for distress and danger at sea
The passage explains distant and hoisted semaphore signals used at sea when provisions are scarce or danger is present. It details ball and flag combinations indicating running into danger, fire, or leakage, and notes that distant signals are answered by hoisting a masthead ball or a signal star on shore when flag colors cannot be distinguished.
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Seaweeds and Their Many Uses Across Arts and Science
Seaweeds serve as food for humans and animals and as fertilizer in agriculture. They yield soda, chlorides, sulphates, silicates, iodine, bromine and gelase. They have long featured in folk and modern pharmacopoeia and are used to stuff chairs and beds. Their aromatic smell is said to repel insects.
Fish scales used in seaside fancy jewelry trade
The scales of certain fish such as sea drum sheepshead tarpon and channel bass are extensively used to manufacture sprays of flowers and other fancy items sold at seaside resorts under the name fish peale jewelry. The scales are large silvery and extremely hard requiring an axe or hatchet to remove them.
Last Love Confession in Boston Tran Script
A playful exchange has a woman challenging a man to admit he’s not the first she’s loved. He counters that he has loved many before but vows she is the last woman he will love, and she agrees to that frame as the basis for their understanding.
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Boston Transcript
Courage and love cited in old Mirror and American quote
In a brief exchange Mrs. Bunn-So asks if a servant will regret running off and Mrs. Himn notes the husband ran with her. The quotation ends with a declaration that love enables work and courage.
A Webster Retort About a Cabinet Message
A quotation recounts Mr. Webster as secretary of state reading a draft message at a cabinet meeting. He is interrupted by a fellow member with suggestions and declares that seven men cannot build one message, likening it to seven hens laying one egg.
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Webster
Congress
Inner Decision Mirth From Widow Remark
Exchange in a Boston Transcript item features M Wiggins and Minks joking about marriage and widowhood as a consoling thought. Iggins notes his wife fears another man might exist, while the others tease about devoted or rival suitors.
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Boston Transcript
Salt in Butter and Mottled Butter Causes
Gritty butter and salt behavior affect market quality. Experts note undissolved salt can cause mottling, while proper distribution and saturated water prevent it. Experiments show mottling not inevitable. salt content may boost poorer butter sales but hides defects in lower quality products.
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Melsey and
Larsen
Portable Cold Frame A Neat Little Cold Frame
A portable cold frame is a bottomless box with a sash that can start plants early in spring or harden and transplant seedlings. It can be built from planks or stakes with a sash laid over, letting radish beet lettuce and other half hardy seeds be sown weeks ahead.
Popular Market Potato Demand and Varieties in Chicago
Chicago dealers agree Burbank potatoes show superior selling quality with strong demand. Differences arise in exact price per bushel versus Beauty of Hebrons, which are less available at western markets. Darbanks remain more sought after, while Beauty of Hebrons have declined since the early 1890s.
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Ebrons
Hebrons
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Irrigation by Private Enterprise Topic Stirs Congress
Experts told the House committee on the Irrigation of arid lands that private irrigation has covered 9,500,000 acres nationwide at a cost of 200,040,000. The figures were presented during a Washington hearing on arid land development.
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Washington
House Committee On the
In the Garden: Cabbage, Nicotiana sanderne, and planting tips
A Long Island grower touts the new Volga Russian cabbage and advises blanching long white leek stems for raw eating. It highlights nasturtium colors, describes the Nicotiana sanderne as floriferous, and shares a garden wrinkle: sow tiny seeds in well-prepared soil, with radish or turnip reed in the drill to break crust and speed cultivation, especially when sowing parsley.
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