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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1893
Page
1
Verse wise reflection on virtue, courage, and moral inheritance by Alice Carey and Ella Wheeler Wilcox. It urges living rightly, resisting envy and malice, and trusting in the divine power within, promising inner strength and endurance through trials. The text blends admonitions with a call to self belief and steadfast conduct.
A quartet of clever criminals devised a scheme along a rural route. They tailed prosperous farms, a well-dressed man bought or bribed tobacco, a fruit seller followed with high priced tobacco, and a government detective exposed them. The plan collapsed when investigators tracked down the wealthy Gro homes.
Harper’s Weekly article quotes C. A. Jackson detailing the Mormon temple’s basement and upper floors. The basement includes a 57 by 385 feet baptismal font chamber with marble floor and bronze oxen. Upper rooms feature blue and gold woods and white and gold tapestries with onyx basins and ornate ewers.
A fragmented quotation attributed to Benjamin Franklin urges action over mere wishing for improved times. The line emphasizes that progress comes from effort and staying alert rather than passive hope.
A discussion of the rolian harp and angolian harp conceptions, noting wind driven resonance, historical mentions from Kircher to Berlioz and Chateaubriand, plus early matches and the evolution to modern parlor matches, then segueing into meteorites their origins and Widmanstätten figures and meteoric iron markings from Canyon Diablo.
Colonel Richardson recalls the 29 year old event at Fort Damnation during a Morgan City practice. A Confederate gun crew fired on Federal officer tents opposite Fort Hell, killing and wounding several. A local citizen Gray confirms the coincidence, revealing the Union loss and Colonel Richardson’s reflection on serving the flag.
A quoted early text from The Devil's Drive by Dyron presents a dark verse about the devil’s return to hell at five and a grim menu of violent imagery. It notes a line about taking a drive and hints at Coleridge's The Devil's Walk as a related work.
A dining party at Burleigh House with Earl of Exeter hears Garrick imitate Raphael's Elymas in the manner of the stage. West and Garrick discuss the cartoon's impact on art as Garrick, blindfolded, impersonates the figure, claiming, I am Raphael's Elymas.
Phylloxera expert M de Mely, a French winegrower and scholar, cited Strabo on using petroleum for diseased vines. He tested the method on his phylloxera struck vineyard, showing healthy shoots from stocks once barren. At a French Academy of Sciences meeting, he presented statistics supporting the technique and its success.
Extraordinary stories report a new oil made from boiled egg yolk. Yolks are crushed and heated until oil separates, yielding nearly two teaspoons per yolk. The oil is widely used by South Russian colonists to treat cuts and bruises, per The Druggists' Circular.
Popular Science News notes a platinum plated steel core wire heated by electricity now cuts the hardest woods. Early versions broke, but the issue was fixed by plating the steel core with platinum via platinic chloride in ether.
The article notes cotton's broad uses from clothing to feed and soap. It highlights fiber for gunny cloth, paper, and felt from seed lint, plus stalk use for thatch. It adds a Zanzibar announced discovery of extracting sugar from cottonseed meal, claims very high sweetness yet to be detailed.
A New York Herald European edition summary outlines cough treatments for consumptives. It cites opium preparations with bel indenna for dry hacking cough and a spray of bicarbonate of soda morphine and water for sticky bronchial secretions. It also notes phenacetine for temperature-tinged cough and balsams like turpentine creosote for abundant expectoration.
A Detroit Free Press quip about mismatched goods ends with heaven made matches joke. The piece then pivots to Farm Journal running guidance advising careful breathing and progressive pace to improve endurance. It emphasizes slow starts, increasing effort, and avoiding premature exhaustion.
An article discusses leopards as the smallest big-cat in the old world, their climbing prowess, and behavior in London zoos, followed by practical notes on poultry housing. It covers small fowl houses for 20 to 25 birds, yard space, and cost considerations, plus an icehouse design using loose-fill insulation and wind and drainage considerations.
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