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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1889
Page
5
A list of diverse notes reports Snowden Mountain in Wales sold for £5750. Other items include Boston's $250000 patent airship plan and a new $8,000,000 company to back a world fair in Buenos Aires.
The rainy season in Florida brings midday showers and cool pleasant weather through the night. Temperatures hover around 70 degrees as everything seems to grow with magical rapidity.
Sylvanus Jones of Richmond Virginia won a contest by writing 36164 words on a postal card. Jones is a shorthand writer employed by the Brighthope Railway Company of Richmond.
Male Amish in Somerset Pa avoid suspenders and folding top buggies, while all wear hooks and eyes instead of buttons. Women cannot wear hats or have friz on. A Persian prince’s escort wondered at the ceremony for waking him, rooted in the belief that waking a sleeping soul could cause death.
Opinion differs on purely religious training in public schools but agrees on teaching morality, interdependence of the human race, duty to others and oneself, patriotism, thrift, kindness, courtesy and common sense.
An English journal reimagines the liquor issue as twenty five snakes slithering through the streets, using a vivid metaphor to critique public drinking. The piece frames social disorder and the call for reform through this striking allegory.
A court referenced licensure options as a metaphor for alcohol control. The parable describes low license with twenty five holes, ten closed, snakes escaping. high license, local option, and finally prohibition. The piece uses vivid allegory to critique licensing choices.
Eleven survivors of the lost bark Caproco praise Mrs. Haar wife of Captain Herbert Hage as a heroine and lifeboat anchor. They credit her with keeping up the crew’s courage for twenty days at sea, pumping, and delivering food while they waited for rescue by the Belt.
The Vatican houses a Hebrew Bible weighing over 325 pounds and never moved by fewer than three men. In 1512 Pope Julius refused a rich Venetian Jewish syndicate’s offer of about $125,000, a high sum partly due to gold’s value at the time.
A visitor reports a signal-service officer melting snow for water on Pike's Peak. From a window the officer describes a distant Colorado Springs scene twenty miles away and, when the telescope is lowered, a world of ice and silence with the observer alone among living things.
A country woman in a small German court interrupted an overbearing attorney with a plain analogy. She said she had agreed to a handsome carpet for a judge, but the opponent sought a worse caricature instead. The court laughed and the woman won the suit.
After Mind Reader Bishop died his mother and his then wife clash over his estate. The wife Number One, once divorced, presents a London will leaving everything to her. She argues that remarriage does not invalidate it and plans to press her claim as courts continue to decide the rights of the other women.
John Bright spoke of a nightly habit feeding imagination and aiding sleep by reading a little poetry before bed. He said American poets like Whittier Lowell and Longfellow were clearer and more intelligible, while English poets aimed at subtler tricks.
Correspondent Bill Nye travels Paris during the Exposition, describing an Algerian stomach dance as shocking and exotic. He tours the Eiffel Tower, notes lifts and restaurants, comments on Paris water and crowds, and recalls a flirtatious hotel concierge and a barber in a rambling, humorous travelogue tone.
A passage from Mrs. Lauri Willis recounts a Samoan woman's tale of meeting her husband aboard a ship. She recalls the moment she saw a bald white man who claimed California's climate had removed his hair, and notes how the man defended her by striking another passenger who pressed for attention.
A French vice consul in the United States misused a similar sounding English phrase. He intended go ahead but said go to hell causing a tense misunderstanding at a Southern home. The incident ends with a caution to choose language carefully and act only after being sure.
A farmer named Ezra Bell, strict with his family, finally considers his wife Miranda’s remark about praise. After a tea party quarrel over compliments and a thoughtful comparison of pies and chores, Bell resolves to show appreciation, adopting the idea that women savor commendation.
The piece warns mothers to cultivate a censorious gossiping habit by prying into others church visits and social affairs. It argues children will return with tales, embellishing details to provoke parental remarks, leading to a family circle of skilled gossipers akin to a famed theatrical group.
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