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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1894
Page
1
With many new items added lately the stock of General Merchandise is larger than ever. The latest arrivals include a splendid lot of goods of approved quality and style priced from 5 cents to 50 cents per pair. Gentleman’s shoes at 3.00 and seamless plow shoes at 1.25 are highlighted.
Ivorian line of Full Derbies and stylish hats for young men plus Pretty Pantaloons priced at $2 and $2.50. Workingmen find good overalls at 40 cents. Ladies invited to view fine dress goods ginghams calicoes. Blankets 60 cents per pair. Bleached muslin and apron gingham offered. Table oil cloths 45 inches and 60 inches priced, chenille covers, and red table cloths available.
The dealer notes many good buys for customers with full stock on hand. Porto Tico Molasses sells for 25 cents and the best ground pepper for a low price. All stock is marked correspondingly low for cash buyers in the city.
A poem recalls two Roanoke brothers in battle. One died serving their country, buried amid swamp and grave, while the other survived maimed and ignored. The piece honors both as equally brave, noting public mourning favors the fallen over the living.
In the Rockies a mythic gnome Hal Walla rules beneath earth and aids a peaceful Ute valley. He tortures monsters, blesses crops, and saves a princess at a waterfall only to see her vanish beneath the limpid basin. Chief Winotah grieves as his daughter is lost.
Hal Walla, a magical spirit, abducts the princess and creates a glittering underground realm. The princess frees herself with maize magic, befriends Visula, and schemes escape with Idanha the Shoshone chief. Hal Walla hinders, then pursues, triggering a storm and a dramatic descent into the earth, remembered as the Devil's Slide.
The New York Sun notes that royal families rarely use surnames. Victoria would be Wettin, but most continental houses carry family names like Bourbon or Hohenzollern. British royalty is British in name and residence, though ancestries are largely German. old royal houses historically bore surnames.
The camel, long useful yet only partly domesticated, shows little affection for humans and dull submission to toil. Observers note limited intelligence and minimal variation in mental qualities, portraying it as innately the dullest of servitors.
Thomas Carlyle writes to a hesitant young woman urging self-mastery and constant effort. He emphasizes performing duties with energy and punctuality, even against inner temptations, and to honor familial obligations as the single essential aim. He urges practical order at home and to do one’s best in all duties for loved ones.
A Chicago letter describes a dancing club formed by deaf mutes where members sense tempo through floor vibrations, instinctive timing, or sight of others. Partners are signaled by simple finger gestures, such as a two-finger across the palm for a quadrille, a twirling forefinger for a waltz, and finger hops for a polka.
A remark questions Mrs Nacashe as remarkably cosmopolitan in language. The speaker speculates she learned English in France and French in England, noting caustic linguistic attainments. The exchange hints at cross cultural fluency and sharp wit.
Cosmopolitan reports on a real pole motion within the globe causing tiny latitude and meridian shifts. It describes two superposed cycles, a yearly loop and a 423 day wobble, leading to periodic near-stationary periods and circular paths up to 60 feet across. Causes discussed include snow and ice mass changes and a spinning-top like motion.
A historian notes Herodotus described an ancient Egyptian ritual where desert palm branches were waved over date palm flowers. The ceremony, once mystified, is now explained as a pollen transfer from male desert palms to female garden palms to ensure a fruitful date crop.
An old Dexter resident recalls a 19th century tale of a cider scheme on a training ground wall. A wily vendor sold barrel cider from a spigot on one side while rivals tapped the other end to undercut prices, creating a cheeky early pricing scandal in a military setting.
Professor Emory E. Smith urges sun exposure and fruit as healthier nourishment, claiming fruit is cheapest, most nutritious, and will shape world markets. He advocates higher fruit bills than white bread and meat, presenting a pro fruit grower manifesto from Pomona Progress.
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