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Newspaper
Devils Lake Inter Ocean
Location
Devils Lake, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1898
Page
5
Travelers recount a deadly plant feared as the devil tree or dragon tree. Descriptions vary from a palmlike flora with toothy fronds that trap victims to trees with extending arms that lift and drop prey. Tales place it in Borneo, Sumatra, and other tropical regions, reflecting travel lore risk in dense forests.
A fragmented discussion compares Panama hats to their long life with careful upkeep. It cites a Washington resident with a nearly forty year hat, bleached and retrimmed, still durable. The piece mentions hats lasting ten to twenty years, while the lining wears out.
In 1890 Nadine Boulitchoff, famed singer from Nijni Novgorod to Moscow and Madrid, learned at a Rio de Janeiro benefit that money would free several enslaved women. She directed gifts to buy liberty rather than material luxuries, freeing seven women whipped recently, as the audience joined in the national hymn and cheered the heroine.
A poor boy finds a pin on the pavement and is noticed by a rich passerby who adopts him. Thirty years later the former post boy becomes a South African millionaire and repays a schoolmate with a £2000 check. The mutual gratitude and irony hinge on a long-ago act.
The Land Chronicle notes few Nepaleonic history students know Dr Antomarchi who tended Napoleon I on St Helena is buried in Santiago de Cota cemetery. His brother lived there and he practiced as a free eye doctor for the poor. After his 1835 death a public monument was raised in his memory.
A New York Ledger article explains restoring rusted iron by dipping the object in water with tin or zinc bearing acid, forming electrical contact via a wire and a small battery. Rust is dissolved over days to a week, then washing and oiling follow. The method works best when zinc remains in good contact and avoids attacking steel.
A New York Times report recounts three days before Grant's famous voyage he entered a Philadelphia store to order a full dress uniform of the general's grade. The merchant feared a rash order yet furnished the suit, epaulettes, and fittings, with Grant insisting on finding a fit for his build if needed.
The article details vast wagers in English betting history. Todd reportedly laid 500000 to 5000 against three horses in the 1896 Derby owned by Mr Clark. Lord Glasgow bet 450000 to 150000 with Lord George Bentinck losing. In 1885 a young Jordling bet 15000 to 150 on St Simon in a two-horse race. 100 to 1 odds reflected immense betting fervor. St Simon won easily.
From George Russe’s recollections comes a tale of Balliol College in which a guest’s outrageous talk provokes the master. He signals the end of the display by asking to continue the conversation in the drawing room, rebuking without breaching host guest decorum. The Birmingham Post notes on Gladstone, Ireland, and Home Rule.
A careful illustration shows constant action wearing away rock as the Niagara River has cut its channel about 200 feet deep over roughly 86,000 years, demonstrating relentless geological change and energy.
The article references an immense English ordnance survey map costing a million dollars over two decades, detailing minute scales from ten feet to near wall accuracy. It notes ancient plans or walls and mentions a Sheffield football club founded in 1855 with records to 1887.
The excerpt blends a murky dialogue with scattered trivia. It mentions a doctor and a scholar discussing a woman, then shifts to an old French saying about character. It claims Brazil produces about 260000 tons of coffee annually, roughly four fifths of global production, all presented in a disjointed, fragmentary style.
A New York Herald summary describes Hawaiian vowels and consonants, noting vowel emphasis in words, pronunciation quirks for letters and digraphs, and differences in speech among social groups. It cites Waikiki as Vi Keekee and explains how greetings like Aloha evolve with adjectives to express warmth.
A Detroit woman recounts a Kansas tale where her husband was jailed on business by a spiteful real estate dealer. At his trial she attended, hurled glasses at the judge, was fined 1000 dollars for contempt, then apologized and returned the glasses showing they were harmless. The case blends anecdotes with other historical misprints and a note on missionaries and a tonic.
Stephen Bonreal recounts in Harper's Magazine a visit to a jail after a Siberia trip. He contrasts prison life with Siberia and mentions his stay with Tai Phoon Tai, noting the cleanliness and humane conditions he observed. He reflects on preferring prison life to distant exile and cites police chief invitations about transferring baggage.
The Scientific American describes a chronograph capable of recording infinitesimal time. It measures a compression event in copper with a 0.0030817 second duration and 0.1658 inch permanent compression. A rotating cylinder and light pencil photograph the progress, using a vibrating tuning fork to time the event.
Robert J. Burdetta writes that hotel clocks are trustworthy while home clocks fail. He cites missed trains and lecture losses due to faulty timekeeping, noting losses run into tens of thousands of dollars. He warns against ornamental mantel clocks with bells and chimes.
A London station incident recounted in Pearsons Weekly where a young woman kissed a man she believed to be her father. The man claimed she was his daughter and refused to release her until police arrived, the scene ending with the man holding a diamond pin.
The passage notes the king of Spain holds varied titles across Jeruzalem, Navarre, Gibraltar, and the East and West Indies, reflecting British influence in many locales while Holland and Belgium remain independent. It asserts the king embodies both Spain’s grandeur and decline.
The elderly scholar Dr Evane, a witty member of Melbourne's parliament, is teased for seeming from another era as he delivers a speech jokingly invoking Queen Anna and prompting laughter among fellow MPs.
The article notes Leadbeater's cockatoo found in South Australia is vivid and beautiful, with white plumage tinged by cream. It discusses its intelligence, wild disposition when shipped to Europe, and its impact on crops prompting shooting by farmers as in England.
A tale recounted by an independent woman describes a man and his cat in a domesticated household. The cat keeps a mouse for amusement, while the man feeds both cat and mouse for several days before the wife discovers the ruse and releases the mouse.
A critical reflection argues culture alone cannot make rulers better and warns against a bully edict. It notes sport can instill fortitude gentleness meekness and fair play for the majority, though editors or prizefighters may resist. The piece contends sport serves character building better than books.
A servant at an inn mistook a warming pan handle peeking from a bed for a hazard. She yanked it, waking a traveler who cried out to leave his wooden leg alone. The mishap, recounted in London Fun, captures a comic error and startled reaction.
A New York Sun report notes in a neighboring cemetery a family named X buried there with each headstone bearing a flower motif and broken stem. Nearby a Fish family follows the same pattern, with small men and a tribal motif cut on their gravestones, drawing curiosity.
A fragmented exchange questions Mo Pater cis as a clever delinestor of characters. Griggs wonders if he can distinguish his German dialect from a Triad brogue, while Briggs asks about wade tele iite and Leigh beogee vo ussie in Boston Transcript.
A fragmentary dialogue shows a passenger recalling a train hold up by robbers and a calm response from Miss Whiting. The surrounding text comments on bread consumption and climate effects on diet, with scattered references to European nations and Boston. The piece reads as a jumble of quotes and brief notes rather than a complete narrative.
A letter from Sir Edward Burne-Jones discussed in The Weatherby Gazette recalls the moral tension of returning borrowed volumes. Burne-Jones laments the sense of ownership and notes his own habit of keeping books longer than allowed, joking that he would rather owners die than part with them.
In Detroit on tour, Edouard Hemenyi recalls a harsh newspaper review that misread slang about his appearance. A citizen explains the quip, inspiring him to study American slang, shaping his later approach to language and performance.
A garbled excerpt from the Indianapolis Journal notes a disaster described in a chipped English paper. It mentions a collapse affecting about 400 people, with 124 saved, and hints at continuation on page 18. The tone reflects old, uneven typesetting and partial details.
Fragmentary OCR notes mention health, strength, and appetite changes. The garbled text references a person named Maken and a Hood product, with hints of past death and fatigue. Unclear names and events limit precise reconstruction of events, persons, or dates from the readable bits.
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