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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1914
Page
4
Analysis of Judas Iscariot’s roles in the last hours of Jesus, contrasting Mary’s virtuous anointing with Judas’s betrayal. It traces motives from cupidity and ambition to remorse, and compares Judas’s end with Peter’s denial, noting the distinction between repentance and remorse.
A puzzle asks if ten lumps of sugar can be placed in three teacups so each cup holds an odd number. The solution uses nesting: place one lump in one cup, two in another, seven in the last, then nest the one-lump cup inside the two-lump cup so each cup ends up containing an odd total.
Washington Star reports that Japanese hunters use bamboo poles and mosquito-net bags to net fireflies at sunset. They shake willows, scoop insects into aprons, then transfer them to larger containers, sometimes until 3000 are caught in one night.
An old science note explains why houseflies appear clean yet carry dirt. Microscopic study shows each fly leg bears 1600 to 2000 hairs that secrete fat, allowing adhesion to smooth surfaces and collecting dust. to walk on glass or upside down on ceilings, the fly cleans its feet daily.
The Baltimore News notes that visiting cards likely originated with a Seventeenth Century gesture by Pericles and a bouquet bearing a name. Bertarelli traces their spread from Greece to Europe, with Louis XIV and Philip of Anjou introducing cards to France and the Netherlands, then Italy. Early cards featured floral borders before landscapes, architecture and city views appeared.
In Random Recollections, Caton Woodville recounts a Balkans oil find where a deep hole yielded a bucket of petroleum. An expert from Baku declared it refined, fooling locals until it was revealed the oil was crude and placed as a hoax to inflate land prices.
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