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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1927
Page
6
The Gulf stream originates from the Gulf of Mexico between Florida and the Bahamas and moves northeast along the American coast. It is about fifty miles wide in the narrowest part and about 2,000 feet deep, splitting into streams near Bermuda and the Carolina coast.
In a Kansas City Star note, Charles F. Thwing recalls a Lincoln anecdote told to him by John Hay about a stump campaign reception. A man proposed that with God they could pull the old thing through, and Lincoln replied that the man was more than half right. The tale reflects Lincoln lore preserved in Thwing’s writings.
In Normandy a benediction des bestiaux unfolds with oxen and draft horses gathered before a church. A peasant procession, bells in the air, and the cure sprinkles holy water. Bread and salt bundles are placed at the cross pedestal for absent beasts.
A historical quip from Ruskin and Carlyle discusses why vital works struggle to publish while trashy novels sell. Ruskin says love in a novel explains its stronger market, contrasting with works of profound scholarship that lack such appeal.
Caperscope returns home exhausted to a cold dinner scene. He confronts his wife in the drawing room, threatens to dine at the Criterion, then agrees to accompany her after she promises to join him in five minutes.
Specimens of bagpipes appear in Cantigas di Santa Maria, a 13th century volume made for King Alphonso the Wise. It includes 51 figures of musicians with three pipers playing bagpipes. A late 15th century manuscript for Queen Isabella, illustrated by a Flemish artist, also shows bagpipes among various instruments.
A relief from the ancient Mathura school rests in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. The thin red sandstone slab is carved on both sides and features a pediment with a repeating triad ornament. Likely part of a temple entrance, the structure was probably brick with a stone doorway.
An oyster lays about 60 million eggs annually. If a single oyster were left undisturbed until its great great grandchildren, its shells would form a pipe eight times the earth's size. Infant mortality among oysters remains very high.
The pipe wood used for briar pipes does not come from the plant briar itself but from a tree growing near the Mediterranean in southern Europe. The tree’s name derives from the French word bryer, with briar being an English corruption of that term.
Baltimore Maryland hosts the Centenary Exhibition and Pageant from September 24 to October 8 at the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad grounds. The event features public displays, entertainment, and community programs highlighting regional achievements. Officials urge attendance and note schedule details will be posted locally.
A historic pageant parades to illustrate inland transport progress over the last century. Floats depict prerailroad travel. Indians with travois. prairie schooners. Conestoga wagons. stagecoaches. the rise of rail with Tom Thumb and York to Atlantic engines. telegraph birth. Lincoln inauguration. then England as Mother of Railways and a final Mainland float.
A quotation by Edward Everett Hale discusses sincerity as the defining trait of heroism. It contrasts genuine, unspoken sincerity with boastful self-proclaimed virtue and warns that true greatness cannot be spoken of or consciously recognized.
Gas Logie reports persimmon trees are common near New York on Long Island Sound shores Staten Island and nearby New Jersey aiding shoe last manufacturing in the area.
The National Rifle Association states bore measurement is tied to ball count per pound for shotgun gauges. A 10 gauge uses 10 balls to the pound, a 12 gauge 12 balls per pound, and a 20 gauge 20 balls per pound.
Aesop's fox in a vineyard envies high grapes, cannot reach them, and mutters that the grapes are sour. The expression "sour grapes" now means something desired but dismissed as undesirable because it is unattainable. Attributed to Anna Turnquist in 1927 through Western Newspaper Union.
A humorous note in The Outlook recounts a young wife who prepared three eggs, each cooked three minutes, to please a fussy husband. The tale highlights kitchen patience and domestic quirks from a bygone era.
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