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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1894
Page
3
A Boston Herald report details Japanese street life and attire with clogs and pattens, notes women in elaborate hair and obi belts, and describes a night visit to a geisha house in Yokohama. It covers children's behavior, gender roles, and a staged performance by six dancers with music and tea service.
A report from the Engineering Journal describes rats arriving with California freight to the Comstock mines. They breed prolifically, inhabit underground timbers and waste rock, and aid miners by scavenging scraps and signaling danger. When mines vent gas or burn, rats perish, but they survive in warm underground levels and even drink oil from engines.
Professor Lippmann captures all rainbow colors on albumen. Paris Photo era plans an international exposition from December 1910 to year end. An English invention combines camera with parachute for fortification photography. French scientist M. Boutan photographs the sea depth from the sea bed in the Mediterranean.
The Siamese avoid cow milk as food. A loaf crust gains a dark glossy surface with butter applied hot from the oven. A good breakfast dust blends plain omelet with potato. chopped boiled potatoes with parsley, salt, and pepper are rolled into an omelet.
Mayport Florida visitor Andrew Conant met a former Libby escapee at the World’s Fair in Chicago. After a poignant reunion in the Libby exhibit he collapsed upon the prison’s former site and died days later from a severe ear pain. Conant had been a Civil War veteran and later a government contractor.
In a London case a purchaser sues to recover an exorbitantly priced painting. The barrister questions the artist about beauty, prompting a witty exchange. The artist hints he once could have convinced him, had he hired the counsel, in a sharp courtroom moment.
A Boston contractor argues electric street railways could replace carts and watering wagons. Steam-powered large cars would collect garbage along tracks, then walking cars would wet streets curb to curb. The system promises cleaner, faster work and requires fewer workers, potentially two thirds fewer.
The baobab Adansonia digitata of Africa and Adansonia Gregorii of Australia are described as the oldest living trees. They have short branching trunks, heights of 60 to 70 feet, and ground girths of 85 to 95 feet. Some trunks hold 40 to 80 bodies as tombs, with recorded names dating to the 14th century and estimated ages over 5,000 years. Javanese music centers on bamboo instruments including a long pipe, a bundle of tubes for a boy to wear, a carved log with strings, and a zither and mandolin, producing pure tones from gongs inside.
The Angora cat shows blindness when fur is pure white and perfect vision with any color tint. The reason remains unexplained. A contrasting note mentions Mamunuth cave fishes with no eyes.
Dialogue notes a student asking about two wardrobes with one empty and Uilk answering that the spare wardrobe holds clothes after payment. The exchange hints at purchases and storage.
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